I’m a junior in high school and am starting to look into colleges. My top choice right now is Georgetown.
ACT score: 34 (writing: 10)
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted: 4.26
Class rank: 9/277
All honors classes, two AP classes this year (AP Calc BC, AP Bio), and mostly AP classes next year
Extracurriculars: Key Club, Student Council, Art Club (president), National Honors Society, Spanish National Honors Society, job at a retirement home for a year, 150-200 hours of volunteering, journalism staff member (writer and feature editor)
Awards: Chinese speaking and writing award, Freshman Art Student of the year, many awards from a local art competition (a gold key, 5 silver keys, and multiple honorable mentions), probably a National Merit Scholar (We just got our results from the PSAT back and I scored in the top three percent)
Special note: I was the founding president of our art club. Since my freshman year, I’ve worked with and helped my art teacher to establish the club (which does many art related volunteer events).
For my essay: I will likely talk about my love for languages and international culture (considering I want to major in international relations). My freshman year I was taking Chinese, but for a multitude of reasons I decided to take Spanish. In order to be able to take AP Spanish, I needed to study and test out of Spanish 1 and 2. Thus, in four months I learned two years of Spanish. I have recently started studying Chinese again and hope to be somewhat fluent by the time college comes so I can study abroad. (I’ve heard colleges like when you incorporate extracurriculars into your essay).
Next year, I hope to seek more positions in my extracurriculars. I also hope to take AP art, AP spanish, AP statistics, AP microeconomics, AP English, and journalism.
Any feedback will help. Thank you!
I would tell you to write about something more interesting than how much you love diversity in your essays, but by the sound of it you could refuse to submit them and still probably get in. By which I mean: you’ll get in.