<p>Hey everyone, I appreciate the time you're taking to read this... maybe your answers will motivate me to get more on top of things.
As a preface, I'm applying to most places with Economics as my first choice major and Philosophy as the second, unless the school has PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics). I am applying to International Economics (SFS) at Georgetown.
Anyway, here we go, I tried to condense a lot of information:
Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (only sitting): 2340 - 800 CR, 790 W, 750 M
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chemistry, 720 Spanish
[<em>] UW GPA: 3.97 (1 semester B)
[</em>] Rank: top 10% (highest available)
[<em>] AP: Euro (5), World (5), Chem (4), Stats (4), English Lang (4), Spanish Lang (4)
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Spanish SL (6), Physics SL (6)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: English HL, History HL, Math HL, Psych SL, AP Biology, IB TOK, Model United Nations, Cross Country/Track (all show on transcript)
[</em>] Awards: AP International Diploma, future IB diploma, national merit commended</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[li] Extracurriculars: [/li]Participated in every activity since at least sophomore year...
City youth committee president
created and developed mentoring program for middle schoolers (as a part of the city committee)
cross country and distance track captain for 2 years
MUN leadership council for 2 years
Free the Children VP and cofounder of school club
school honor society cofounder and VP
CSF treasurer</p>
<p>[<em>] Job/Work Experience: paid tutoring
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: lots of stuff for the above activities
[<em>] Summer Activities: running cross country practices (11,12), reading, a couple small summer programs
[</em>] Essays: need to be written :/
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: nothing that will make me stand out
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Should be very good. I am her best student this year. Gave her a lot of stuff to write about.
[li] Additional Rec: Considering getting one from the advisor from my city youth committee. Not sure if it would be too much. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General
State: CA
School Type: Large Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Income Bracket: 100k-150k</p>
<p>There are probably 8-10 other people from my school applying to Georgetown EA. Most are pretty well qualified. Last year the two people that were accepted EA from my school attended, so I guess that looks nice.</p>
<p>Here are the places I am definitely applying to, not including some safeties:
Georgetown
Stanford
USC
Berkeley
UCLA
Pomona
Claremont-Mckenna
Chicago
Rice</p>
<p>And some reaches if I have time in December (in order of preference):
Yale
Harvard
Brown
Vanderbilt
Amherst
Swarthmore</p>