Chances for Georgetown, Yale, Princeton?

I know these schools are extremely selective but hey, why not see?
(Please be brutally honest, it’s much better that way)

White-as-paper female (Both parents have masters degrees)

GPA Weighted/Unweighted: 4.65/4.0

SAT: 2210 (800R, 680M, 730W)
-Lit: 710 ~retaking soon
-also taking Math 2 and U.S History

ACT: 34 composite

Total APs up to now: 5 (Psych-5; Physics, APUSH, Lang, Stats - TBD)

Senior Schedule:
-AP Calc AB
-AP Bio
-AP Gov
-AP Euro
-AP Lit
-Arabic 1 (local community college)
-ASL 2 (sign language)
-Band

  • Partial/TA

Leadership:
-Key Club VP
-NHS VP
-Freshman Mentor program
-8th Grade Mentor Program
-Summer Job at restaurant

Volunteer:
-Church nursery
-Compassion international (poverty relief for children)
-local soup kitchen

Athletics:
-High School Volleyball (will be 4 years-2 varsity-)
-Club Volleyball (very competitive and successful team)
-Basketball (1 year)
-Tennis (will be 4 years-3 varsity)

Other ECs:
-English Honor Society
-German Honor Society
-ASL Honor Society
-Community Service Club

Accomplishments:
-Honor Roll
-Various Character and Important Player awards through sports
-National Merit : ? still in the initial rounds so who knows

Random:
-Mission trip to Guatemala (super impactful)
-Torn ACL Junior year, had to stop playing sports for 8 months, was manager of the tennis team because I couldn’t play

College Goals:
Study International Relations/Affairs

Posted before finishing haha:

-Class Rank Weighted: 8 of 358 (highly competitive grade, ugh)
-Will be team captain for tennis and probably volleyball
-played cello for 7 years and bassoon for 4

-College Goals Additional: Focus on Middle Eastern Studies and Foreign Languages like Farsi, Arabic, Russian, etc.
-------I honestly just love anything to do with foreign cultures :slight_smile:

I think you have very impressive stats! Obviously all of these schools are reaches for basically everyone, but you should have very good chances. If you can retake the SAT to get your math up, that would be good.

You have wonderful stats, obviously. The question will be whether there is enough in your application to set you apart. 30,237 students applied to Yale this year. Many had stats as good, or better, than yours. 28,000+ of these students were rejected or waitlisted. The numbers are incredibly daunting.

FWIW, my advice would be to apply to all three, definitely. But put the majority of your efforts into finding and visiting 4 or 5 schools with excellent language departments and study abroad opportunities, that are slightly less selective. U of Rochester, Grinnell and Wellesley come to mind. You’ll rest much easier next March if you have several great acceptances to choose from.

You look like you have a pretty good chance for Georgetown, but your tests scores and math class level are low for both Princeton and Yale. Definitely retake the SAT or ACT if you are serious about YP.

You have a strong resume.

Yale and Princeton are reaches or high reaches for everyone.

But Georgetown is not quite as selective as those two, and average tesr scores are not as high… so to me, you could call Georgetown a low reach or a high match.

Average SAT score among admits at P and Y is somewhere around 2250.

Last time I checked, it was more like 2100-2150 at Georgetown.

Here’s how I define them:
High Reach: <5% chance
Reach: 5-15% chance
Low Reach: 15-25% chance
High match: 25-40% chance

Good luck!

Don’t retake the SAT. Your ACT score is good enough for top schools. Good Stats.
http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/estimate.html

Thanks everyone for all the feedback!

I really should have taken the SAT again, my math score is pretty bad, but I got a 34 in math on the ACT and could probably improve it! I’m hoping my Math 2 will be good enough to show competency also.

I am certainly not focused on just highly selective schools. I am considering universities like American as well!

I would say your stats are in the median pool of GU applicants, and slightly below average for Yale and Princeton. But like most selective shools, all of these shcools do not just look at your academic stats and they will also look at other parts of your application as a whole.

I would say its a reach for all three schools, but it does not mean you will not get accepted. Try hard to prepare the application, and visit each one of the schools.

Which school within Georgetown are you applying to?

There’s just one application for Georgetown, but I want to attend the Walsh School of Foreign Service

^ Good choice of major; obviously Georgetown is known for being at or near the top in terms of FS.