<p>High School Type
sends many grads to top schools
Academics:
GPA - Unweighted
3.83</p>
<p>Scores:
SAT I Math
770
SAT I Critical Reading
670
SAT I Writing
690
SAT II Math Level 1 (IC)
730
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC)
670 (retook in nov)
SAT II Biology - M
720</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Significant Extracurriculars
Varsity Crew (10-12th grade) 18 hrs/week, 40 weeks/ year
Model UN (10-12th grade)
Whizz Kidz Organization (10-12th grade)
Founder/ VP Young Republicans Club
Student Faculty Disciplinary Board Task Force (12th grade)
Yearbook (9-10th grade)
Leadership positions
Work Experience: Heights Realty and Management Company; summer of 12th grade; 16 hours/week; 8 weeks/year
-Office Administrator and Accounts Payable Clerk, worked in an office with other staff</p>
<p>Volunteer/Service Work
-Whizz Kidz Organization (provides electric wheelchairs to disabled kids in UK)
-Site Leader for Service Days at my school, refurbished 2 children's nurseries
-Church Youth Group- assists elder</p>
<p>Honors and Awards
National Merit Scholarship Program Letter of Commendation; National Honor Society Member grades 10-12; College Board AP Scholar; High Honor Roll grade 9; Honor Roll grades 10-12.</p>
<p>College Summer programs
Princeton University Summer Rowing Camp 2010</p>
<p>You like a decent applicant, but I’m curious to know - are you applying for financial aid? As an international, that will definitely affect your chances.</p>
<p>I agree with emaytay that you are a decent applicant and you might even get in;) And whether you apply for financial aid or not will NOT affect your chances, as admission to Georgetown is need blind for internationals too. However, if you do apply for aid, you are one of those applicants who (if gets in) will probably not be awarded too much (if any) financial aid; Gtown gives aid only to those VERY FEW internationals whose credentials are truly impeccable. Of course, I’m not saying you are not gonna get aid, but you should not really count on that. Good luck!</p>
<p>@ksanyee whoops my bad! I remembered hearing something about Georgetown giving financial aid to a very small number of international students, and I just assumed that meant they weren’t need-blind for internationals.</p>
<p>Well, both of you are wrong in different ways. Georgetown is need-blind to everyone, including international students, so asking for aid will NOT affect admission chances whatsoever. Also, Georgetown does have a limited amount of financial aid for international students, but I believe they award based on need and not on merit as ksanyee seems to imply. I’m an international student and I received over fifty grand, and I can safely say that my credentials were not “impeccable.”</p>
<p>Georgetown offers a very limited number of need-based scholarships to selected first-year international students who demonstrate financial need for assistance. Prospective international students who wish to be considered for one of these awards should indicate their intent on the Application for Undergraduate Admission and should submit a CSS/Financial Aid Profile online at CollegeBoard.com.</p>
<p>@ flight23: I’m not wrong this time:).
And the website you quoted supports my post as well: they offer aid only to a <em>selected group</em> of those internationals who need aid.
I am international too, I applied too, I got in too…but I did not get a single dollar of financial aid (while I would have needed a full ride, more than $50,000). To quote the financial aid letter: "I am very sorry to inform you that we do not have scholarship aid to offer you. We have only a very small amount of aid to offer international students and, unfortunately it did not stretch far enough to include you. "
You lucky duck!:D</p>
<p>I’m not saying you were wrong in that only a select amount of international students are given financial aid, I said that you were wrong in that impeccable students were given financial aid.</p>
<p>You are right, using the word impeccable was probably not the best choice as I meant that internationals with an especially strong (~impeccable) application are the ones who get aid; those whose overall application is compelling to the admissions officers-and as we all know, nobody really knows what such an application looks like). Your application, for some reason, was one of these outstanding ones.
I agree that financial aid is only need-based at Georgetown but when deciding to whom to award these need-based aids, merit comes into consideration. (That is the only logical explanation I can see for my situation, and that is what I have concluded from sources online)</p>