<p>White Male
All-boys Catholic High School in San Francisco, CA
GPA-4.0 uw
SAT-700 CR/800 M/690 W (2190)
SAT II-Pending
Rank-1/178</p>
<p>8 APs by graduation-5's on World History, European History, and Environmental Science, 4 on English Language</p>
<p>Taking AP US History, US Gov't, English Lit, and Calculus AB</p>
<p>EC's
-Basketball all 4 years, Varsity Junior and Senior year. Captain Senior year on HIGHLY successful team.
-President/Founder of European-American Club at school (School is only 20% white)
-Editor of Editorial Section of Newspaper Senior Year
-Shadow Program at school all 4 years
-NHS
-CSF (Cali version of NHS)
-100 hours of community service at Adult Day Care Center and tutoring elementary school kids
-Beginning to learn French on my own after taking Spanish at school. </p>
<p>You seem like you'd definitely have a chance of getting in. That being said, your profile matches that of many IR applicants (language-wise, etc.) and that of all other qualified applicants (in terms of your EC's -- everyone is the editor of their paper, in a cultural club, and on a sports team) so write some outstanding essays, do a great alumni interview, and if Tufts is your first-choice, you could consider applying ED; I think you'd be a shoo-in if you applied early, whereas an acceptance isn't so assured if you apply with the other 14,000 who do so RD (though I think they shoudl take yoU!). Good luck! Let us know how things develop.</p>
<p>This probably won't be very popular in this forum, but Georgetown SFS is my first choice so I'm applying EA there. Thanks for the response though.</p>
<p>haha, no do what's best for you! We actually have one person in the forum (kofi000; you could PM for his/her own insight into both schools) who transferred to Tufts from SFS; and I picked Tufts over SFS. So we know it's a popular cross-applicant school b/c of the IR programs. Let us know how things go!</p>
<p>You can look at my past posts to see some of the main reasons I left SFS and transferred to Tufts. You'll see that I think that both schools provide an excellent education, but that I felt that my peers at Tufts were far more motivated, selfless (ie: for example, almost all the IR-related extracurriculars at Gtown are about getting yourself forward as a politician/etc while at Tufts people are involved in active citizenship, debate-building, etc.; many IR majors at Tufts are also PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES students -- also v. indicative of their nature), and open in general. Just the fact that Tufts has a graduate school, where the undergraduate IR program is based, for LAW AND DIPLOMACY shows the focus at Tufts, while at Gtown the focus is FOREIGN SERVICE. Also, I think that in an academic environment where international studies are so important, it's important to have a vibrant international culture -- there are about double as many intl students at TUfts as there are at Gtown/SFS. And I found the intl students at Gtown to be particularly distressing in terms of hwo they compared to the caliber of students at SFS in general and also in their pretentious attitudes. PM me and I can give you more details. I hav both great and not-so-great things to say about Gtown and I can be honest about Tufts on whatever subject you ask me about. I won't go into much detail on the public forum because later we might have some people from Gtown offended, etc. so just PM me and I'll shoot it to you straight!</p>