<p>Nah. One of my friends didn’t hear back for 2 weeks, and got admitted. If they don’t get to you by Wednesday, I’d call.</p>
<p>i was deferred 
i can’t help but be upset georgetown has been my number one for 4 years</p>
<p>okay guys, I still haven’t received my email (I’m an international.) Emails should not be delayed like mail, right? What do you think happened? I’m wondering as some international students have not received and others already got theirs. Are they still making a decision whether to accept us or not as this point? Should I email to ask?</p>
<p>4.45 unweighted gpa (my school limits the number of ap/honors we can take per semester)
4.0 unweighted gpa
2230 SAT (800 CR, 720 M, 710 W) (superscored over 2 sittings)
ACT: didn’t take
SAT II: math II (660) chem (640) lit (780)
5 on AP Lang & Comp
Essays:
Extracurricular one: I talked about how I came to join the swim team when I was four, how it’s affected me in the last 13 years, and how it led me to my first job (lifeguarding/teaching lessons).
Personal Statement: SUPER personal (I was worried it would be too much so), talked about a retreat experience I had my sophomore year and how because of that I wanted to apply to be a retreat leader when I could (it’s a senior position)
SFS: connected the issues I saw on my service trip over the summer to the global community; talked about the Pope and his call for subsidiarity </p>
<p>Senior Courses: AP Calc AB, AP Gov, honors latin 4, AP Lit, anatomy, philosophy in literature (double english), required religion classes
EC:
Varsity swim team 4 years (team captain 2013 and “most inspirational swimmer 2013”)
Academic decathlon (10,11, 12): member of highest team
Latin Club (9, 10, 11, 12): event coordinator this year, latin honors society (10, 11, 12), member of Junior Classical League
Retreat Team
CSF
Service Trip
100+ hours additional direct service with St. Vincent de Paul</p>
<p>Other:
Various academic awards
National Merit Commended Scholar</p>
<p>Caucasian (with native american ancestry), female, Catholic all-girls school</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted SFS</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 750 CR 770 M 750 W over 2 sittings
[</em>] ACT: 35 (35 English, 33 Math, 36 Reading, 36 Science, 8 essay)
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 Lit, 780 US History, 770 World History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 UW, 4.3ish weighted
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/228
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 10th grade: Stat (5), World Hist (4) 11th grade: Calc BC (5), Comparative Gov (5), US Hist (5), Lang/Comp (5), Microecon (5), Macroecon (5). 12th grade: Lit/Comp, US Gov, Physics B
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP US Gov, AP Physics B, dual enrolled in calc at Georgia Tech, filler classes
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP National Scholar, National Merit Semifinalist, NFL Outstanding Distinction</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate (president, senior year. Captain of policy squad Junior and Senior year), Cross Country grade 9-11 (lettered all three years, never competed at Varsity level), Worldquest (a quizbowl competition), Young Dems soph and sr year
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Summer job throughout high school, programming paid internship January - April 2013
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 75 hours - required by school system, nothing special (mostly related to debate team fundraising)
[</em>] Summer Activities: soph: job, debate camp, a debate tournament jr: job, internship with democratic party of georgia, summer chem class sr: debate camp, 2 debate tournaments, job
[<em>] Essays: Strong. I think my “Describe yourself” essay is the best essay I’ve written for college apps (used it as the supplemental essay for Harvard). Extracurricular essay was fine, nothing phenomenal. Global issue essay was strong. It was about drones, gave a kind of nuanced policy proposal (not just “stop using drones”).
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: One from debate coach/AP Lang teacher, the other from a teacher who taught me 10th grade lit, AP Comparative Gov, and is now teaching me AP US Gov. I didn’t read either, but both teachers really like me and are very good writers, so I assume the essays are good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Should be good. My counselor doesn’t know me super well (she came to my school during my junior year), but I’ve met with her a lot and I’m pretty sure she likes me.
[</em>] Additional Rec: None
[li] Interview: Went good, not great. It happened at the offices of the bank my interviewer worked at. One of his coworkers was also a georgetown alum, so he sat in on the interview. They asked me a few “get to know you” questions, then kinda started remeniscing about georgetown together. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Undecided, but I’m in SFS so not a ton of choices
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): GA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public, urban, medium-sized
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: I’d rather not say, but well less than $100K
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Test scores, class rank, APs, extracurrics fit SFS
[</em>] Weaknesses: Extracurrics could be better - debate is my main extracurric, and I don’t have a ton of competitive success there
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Test scores and class rank (I heard these were the 2 most important considerations for Georgetown, for early action at least)[/li][/ul]General Comments: So much stress relieved, letter came today, opened it as soon as I got home. I got a call around 6:00 PM from Georgetown (caller was a sophomore in SFS) who congratulated me and told me about some events/groups for georgetown.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED to the college! Honestly i’m in shock. I received a congratulatory call even though I hadn’t received a letter yet. Started crying before she finished her sentence, think I scared the girl ahahah but YES
Stats:</p>
<p>Objective:
- ACT: 35
- SAT II: Literature 780 US History 710 Spanish 690
- GPA: 4.33 W
- AP: Psych (5) US History (5) English Lit (5) English Lang (5) World (5)
- Senior Year Course Load: Post-AP English, AP Spanish , AP Bio, AP AB Calculus, AP Gov Pol Chorus
- Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, Rho Kappa Society</p>
<p>Subjective:
- Extracurriculars/Volunteer/Community service (place leadership in parenthesis): chorus (All-state), animal shelter volunteer, make-a-wish (vice president), animal shelter club (founder) literary magazine (layout editor)</p>
<ul>
<li>Job/Work Experience: internship at tv company for 4 weeks</li>
<li>Essays:</li>
<li>My extracurricular essay was about singing and how it’s like being an interpreter. I thought it was one of my strongest.</li>
<li>Personal essay: Used my common app one about how I’m Armenian. Made me look more diverse than just another white girl. I thought it was well-written and unique but not over-the-top good</li>
<li>Why Georgetown: Basically wrote everything the admissions lady said when she came to visit our school. I thought it was really thorough and genuine and probably showed I would definitely attend if I was accepted, which I think helps.</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: My AP Psych teacher (intended major) and AP English (best subject other than psych) so they were probably pretty good</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: She’s a great counselor and has connections so I think it helped.</li>
<li>Interview: My interview went very well, told me he thought I definitely deserved to get in but he couldn’t know for sure.
Other</li>
<li>Applied for Financial Aid?: No</li>
<li>Intended Major: Psychology</li>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): FL</li>
<li>School Type: Competitive Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Caucasian</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>Income Bracket: </li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Absolutely none</li>
</ul>
<p>Reflection
- Strengths: I really thought my essays made the difference. My test score (ACT) definitely helped but essays helped a lot too
- Weaknesses: Subject test scores, maybe GPA (not the highest it could’ve been)
- Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: SO in shock right now so i couldn’t tell you other than work a lot on your essays because again I think that’s what did it for me</p>
<p>I’m super excited to get my first college acceptance! Congrats to everyone else who got in! :)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted SFS</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: 740 CR, 800 M, 730 WR
[</em>] ACT: 35 (35s across the board, 11 on essay)
[<em>] SAT II: Bio E (750), World History (760), US History (770)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
[</em>] AP: US History (5), World History (5), Chemistry (4), US Government (self-study, 4), Music Theory (self-study, 4), Macroeconomics (self-study, 4)
[<em>] IB: Math SL (5), Chemistry SL (4) (not reported)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Full IB candidate. IB English HL2, Theory of Knowledge, IB European History, AP Stats, IB Bio HL2, IB Theater HL2, IB French SL
[<em>] Major Awards: AP Scholar with Distinction
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars:
School Newspaper (Copy Editor and Features Editor (10-11))
Independent Student Newspaper (Editor-in-Chief (12), Co-Founder/Copy Editor/Features Editor (11))
Mock Trial (Co-Captain and Lead Prosecutor (12), Attorney (10-11))
Academic Decathlon (Team Captain (12), Honors Team Member (11-12))
Music (Harpsichord lessons (10-12) + violinist in youth orchestra(9-12))
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community Service: Hospital Volunteer (3 yrs, 300+ hours)
[<em>] Summer Activities: Junior Statesmen Summer School at Stanford 2012
[</em>] Essays: Wrote my “extracurricular” essay on how I co-founded an independent student newspaper after my school pulled the plug on its print newspaper, wrote my “personal” essay on the unique type of humor I enjoy with my two best friends, and wrote my SFS essay on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendations: APUSH teacher, most likely wrote me a really good rec, since I was at the top of his class, always sat in the front, engaged in discussions a lot, etc.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Solid. I’ve seen her recs for me in the past and I know she thinks very highly of me.
[<em>] Interview: Amazing, my interview was super laid back in a restaurant, interviewer was incredibly easy to talk to, was able to express to her everything I wanted to express, could not have been any better.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] State: Northern California
[<em>] School Type: Public, 2000 students
[</em>] Ethnicity: South Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~$100,000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Test scores, and solid ECs (a sort of “Big Three” as far as leadership goes, with journalism, Mock Trial, AcaDec). Also I had an amazing interview and felt like I was able to fully show my intellectual curiosity. Talked about everything from Karl Marx to Immanuel Kant to pushing fat men off bridges for the sake of consequentialist morality. 
[<em>] Weaknesses: Probably my GPA. I had all As freshman and sophomore year but two Bs fall semester of junior year, although I did manage to gain all As second semester.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: As we say in Mock Trial, it was just a “preponderance of the evidence” I guess.
[li] Where else you are applying or have already applied: Also applied to UC Berkeley, UCLA, and USC, will apply to several Ivies RD.[/li][/ul]General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: Even though Georgetown is definitely not my first choice, I applied EA to Gtown instead of applying early to one of the Ivies, as I did not feel my GPA was as solid as it could be; I had a relatively rough junior year and wanted to get all As first semester of senior year before applying there. I’m glad I applied EA to Gtown as now I don’t need any safety schools and can put all my energy into the real battle ahead. :)</p>
<p>Does anybody know when would be the last time to take the SAT/ACT if I got deferred? I know there’s an SAT in January and an ACT in Feb, but I’m not sure if they’ll be too late.</p>
<p>Dear Impressionistic,</p>
<p>Just a Dad here checking the site to see if everyone had received their letters yet and could not help but be impressed with your background and more than anything with your objective honesty about your strengths and weaknesses (ie. the essays). The rest of your background sounds outstanding. You may still get in to Gtown but don’t hesitate to work real hard on the essays before the next regular admissions deadline! I do not know you but am rooting for you!</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred (MSB)</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT: 2140; Writing: 730 Reading: 730 Math: 680
- SAT II: 730 US History, 690 Lit, 640 Math II (didn’t submit)
- Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91
- Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 22/723; most competitive school
- AP (place score in parenthesis): 4’s on AP World History, AP U.S. History, AP Lang & Comp, AP Human Geography, AP Psychology</p>
<ul>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Spanish Lang, Astronomy Honors, Teacher’s Assistant, AP Calc AB, AP Stat, AP Gov</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National AP Scholar, Piano competition awards, school awards in various subjects</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:
- Extracurriculars/Volunteer/Community service (place leadership in parenthesis):
800+ hours of volunteering, mostly with boy choir
NHS: Member 3 years, (event coordinator), (scholar committee member)
Spanish NHS: (Vice President)
Cross Country: (Varsity Captain)
Track & Field: (Varsity Captain)
Boy Choir: (Full Chorister, Section Leader, Music Theory Teacher, Proctor)
EHS: Member 3 years
Piano: 7+ years</p>
<ul>
<li>Job/Work Experience: None</li>
<li>Essays: Personal essay 10/10, short essay 8/10, SFS essay 7/10</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: One was from my Spanish IV teacher who runs SHS and is my teacher for TA so I’m extremely close and I have no doubts that she wrote an amazingly insightful rec letter. My other was so last minute because I realized it had to be from a math teacher and she did it the day the application was due.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Doubt he wrote much if anything…</li>
<li>Interview: AMAZING. I connected with her so easily. We talked for over an hour and she said she would give me amazing marks for my review. </li>
</ul>
<p>Other
- Applied for Financial Aid?: No
- Intended Major: International Business
- State (if domestic applicant): FL
- School Type: Public; extremely competitive
- Ethnicity: Hispanic
- Gender: M
- Income Bracket: Upper-middle class
- Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM</p>
<p>Reflection
- Strengths: My 800+ service hours, dedication to boy choir, interview, URM
- Weaknesses: Only sent 2/3 SAT II’s, one teacher rec letter
- Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Not gonna lie I’m completely gutted because I put so much into this app, and this app accurately reflected who I am as an individual, so my deferral makes me think they just don’t like me personally. Whatever, their loss.</p>
<p>General Comments: Looking at all these highly qualified deferrals make me feel a little better. Hopefully I fare better in RD…</p>
<p>DD was deferred. Oh well.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2200 (800cr, 680m, 720w)
[</em>] ACT: 30
[<em>] SAT II: 790 EL, 750 USHist, 730 Bio
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.97 (one B all of HS career)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/325
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World Hist (5), Bio (5), Psych (5), English (5), US Hist (5), three more this year</p>
<p>[li] Major Awards: State finalist debate and other public speaking competitions</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate (4yrs, 2yrs captain); Mock trial (4yrs, 2yrs captain)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 120 hours Community Foundation
[<em>] Summer Activities: UCLA Mock Trial Institute
[</em>] Essays: Average, with limerick bonus
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Excellent (one said “Once in a generation student. I would stake my career on her success as a student.”
[</em>] Interview: Sucked. Interviewer was 30 min late, dressed in dirty jeans, and showed no interest in learning about DD or selling Georgetown.</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Y
[</em>] Intended Major: Government
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] School Type: average suburban public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket: upper middle class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): absolutely none</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: GPA, rank, scores
[</em>] Weaknesses: wish I knew
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: no idea[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted to SFS!
Test Scores
33 ACT 750+ US and World History 720 Lit
3.86 GPA
Essays about heritage, anti sexism club, and privacy (think NSA) Pretty Good
Income 90,000 (more like 50K however because of financial problems)
Foreign Parents and URM
Above Average ECs</p>
<p>I’m so excited! I thought I would get deferred for sure. Congrats to everyone else who got in. To everyone who got deferred don’t stop believing in yourself. You are all amazing and will end up somewhere amazing! Good Luck.</p>
<p>Deferred from SFS</p>
<p>Scores
33 ACT
SAT II: 710 Math 2, 660 US History, 640 Chemistry (I foolishly waited 4 months after AP exams to take these)
Class Rank: Top 10% (School uses a decile system)
GPA: 3.78 UW
Courses: 8 AP’s after this year, cannot take AP courses freshman or sophomore year
1 online course
Hardest possible schedule, with the exception of band</p>
<p>EC’s
President of Band Program, which is our schools biggest activity (180 members) and has done events such as the Inaugural Parade
Math Team
Tennis Baseball</p>
<p>Final Comments
A little disappointed, but I was fully expecting the deference, so it wasn’t a huge let down. Comparing my level of education against others, I’m not entirely sure I’m cut out to be a Hoya anyway. Easier to quit now than die of stress next year. Best of luck to those who have not heard yet, and my sincere congratulations to those who have been accepted!</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted**[/color][/size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:[list]
[ <em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2230
[ *] ACT: 35
[ *] SAT II: 770 USH 730 Lit 730 Math II
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.94
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 7/386
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): None
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): Music SL- 5
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: Full IB + AP Stats
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semi-Finalist
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Choir, RSCM, Youth Orchestra, Pit Orchestra, Leadership Program though Chamber of Commerce
[ *] Job/Work Experience: None
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Camp Counselor, Hospital Volunteer, NHS
[ *] Summer Activities: Governor’s Scholars Program
[ *] Essays: Why Georgetown- 6/10, Personal- 7/10, Blurb- 8.5/10
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: Pretty good, I’d assume
[ *] Counselor Rec: Excellent
[ ] Additional Rec:
[ ] Interview: Was weird- all he had me do was ask questions, but I guess it went fine
[ /list][ b]Other[list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): KY
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender: M
[ ]Income Bracket:
[ ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[ /list][ b]Reflection[list]
[ *] Strengths: ACT, SAT IIs, Counselor Rec
[ *] Weaknesses: Rank, Essays, GPA
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I structured my entire app around my desire to study languages, and they contacted me about it- guess it came through
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Full tuition to Fordham, deferred from CWRU (</em>?)
[ /list][ b]General Comments: Come on UChicago!!!</p>
<p>Thank you mel1961! I can’t tell you how much that comment brightened my day. Good luck to your child as well! :)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted SFS</p>
<p>Objective:
ACT: 33
SAT II: 650 Lit 650 Bio
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.00 (one B all of HS career)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/132 99.27%
AP (place score in parenthesis): --taking the classes/prepping for tests Calc BC, Gov, Macro Econ
Major Awards: 4 Time All State Speech, Business Horizons Ambassador, Miss Teen of Iowa Honor Court</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis) Speech (4 Time All State) Marching Band (Color Guard Captain, first part flute) Yearbook (Editor) Student Council (Secretary) FBLA (Vice President) Football Cheerleading (4 Year Varsity) NHS (Secretary) Silent Knights (Board Member) Drama Club (Thespian Society)
Volunteer/Community service: 170 hours Including for school and for Obama Campaign as a Fall Fellow
Summer Activities: Girls State, Business Horizons, Miss Teen of Iowa, FBLA National Conference, Part time job
Essays: Main–about my alcoholic mom, the time she spent in the hospital (and this disabilities she now has, including brain damage) and the realization that I can’t change her, Speech Team and my older brother, SFS essay–Culture Loss: all-in-all I think they were good
Teacher Recommendation: Good I hope I deferred mg right to see them, but one was my math teacher who also is my neighbor, has a daughter going to an Ivy, and loves me–hope was to make up for low math score on ACT. Other was my English teacher/mime coach. He loves me because I lead the mime group that he started, have worked multiple times individually on speech, and he let me pull pranks on him…so was probably a pretty fun recommendation.
Interview: Good, I think! I thought it was pretty casual.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Y
Intended Major: International Relations
State (if domestic applicant): Iowa
School Type: small public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: F
Income Bracket: middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I come from “America’s Most Unusual Town”
Reflection
Strengths: GPA, rank, extracurriculars, essays, recs
Weaknesses: scores/prominence of school–I don’t think anyone had gone to Georgetown before
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: unique background, well rounded</p>
<p>I also wrote about how I want to start a mime group!</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred from SFS</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 720 M, 800 CR, 780 W. 2300 in one sitting during my exchange after the test was canceled twice in a row (subject tests were also cancelled for November… ***)
ACT: 28 (taken once when I was thirteen with no prep… It wasn’t my style so I didn’t take it again)
SAT II: literature 720, m2 590 m1630 (had the flu on test day, couldn’t finish the maths because o was sneezing or coughing every two seconds, proctor suggested I quit and go home but I didn’t think I would get the chance to take them in Korea so I didn’t cancel… Turns out I was right.)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.92
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/270
AP (place score in parenthesis): I took every AP offered at my school (3) and then some. It’s not a lot but its all could possibly do.
AP Literature
AP Government
AP U.S. History
AP European History </p>
<p>Senior Year Course Load: AP gov, AP lit, AP ush, sociology, Advanced Environmental Science (no Ap available ), theater.
I took and finished these classes all in one semester because I had to graduate early to do an exchange program in South Korea, where I am now. I was fifteen years old when I received my diploma. </p>
<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): accepted into federal language academy for Russian and Korean. Could not attend because my family couldn’t afford it at the time </p>
<p>Academic Awards: Honor roll, first place in Korean culture project contest, third place in video contest. Several awards from drama. </p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): </p>
<p>Exchange student in South Korea for one year- 2013
Chorus in Korea (competed at national competition)
Drama- participated in every single show there was (3 musicals, 2 plays,2 competition one acts) and got leads in three. Random note: I played Sargent trotter in mousetrap which was weird because I’m a girl but it was a great experience.
Church band- lead singer
Quiz bowl team member- we competed twice on TV.
Taekwondo- black belt. Also worked part time at the studio
Beta club
Was selected for but could not do national honor society because I left the country two weeks after induction and our club was a joke anyway
Dance (jazz, musical theater, tumbling)
Summer governors school for two years</p>
<p>Job/Work Experience:
Taekwondo instructor </p>
<p>Volunteer/Community service:
Lots of undocumented service at church. Didn’t go into details on app.</p>
<p>Essays (rating 1-10, details):
General essay -9/10. Worked my butt off. Four people reviewed it and all said it was great. </p>
<p>SFS essay- 6/10. Talked about the dehumanization of north koreans in the media. People (my Korean history teachers and people back in the us) said it was great and that I had fresh, useful ideas. It was really long though. </p>
<p>EC essay - (6/10) how taekwondo has altered the course of my life. Kind of last minute. </p>
<p>Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: English teacher, she literally said I was the best student she had ever had. But she also copy and pasted a list of my accomplishments that I had given her via email -.- 7/10
Teacher Rec #2: Korean English teacher wrote three pages in broken English about how much she thought i could do well in an IR focus and how hard I work to do everything the Korean kids do even though its ridiculously hard for the native kids. She was so proud to show it to me afterward, it was adorable. (10/10)</p>
<p>Counselor Rec: no clue. I met her once back when she wasn’t my counselor. My old guidance counselor quit this summer and I have to correspond with my school by email so she doesn’t even know me. </p>
<p>Additional Rec:
Interview: Waived. I wish I had had the chance but there was no one who could interview me in my area maybe ill try to do one after I go back to America. </p>
<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): VA but I’m I’m Korea right now.
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: female
Income Bracket: 100,000 ish?
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
neither of my parents went to college.
Yearlong exchange in Korea.
I graduated from high school when I was fifteen years old. </p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: SAT, grades, took hardest possible courses at my school in half the time that other kids get (my school doesn’t have a lot of options for APs so I kind of had to invent my own schedule) </p>
<p>Weaknesses: Undocumented community service, long SFS essay, not going to that federal service language academy, no interview, I feel like they misunderstood my transcript.</p>
<p>Why you think you were deferred: </p>
<p>No interview, no way to explain my very very weird schedule. Act and sat ii scores may have played a part. </p>
<p>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Nowhere yet.</p>
<p>General Comments: I’m in shock. Georgetown is my dream school. I didn’t even get to find out myself; I was waiting for the email for international applicants but it never came. my parents got the letter and had to tell me the bad news through a Skype call at 5:30 am today. This seriously blows. I seriously don’t know how I could have worked or studied any harder.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[li] SAT I (breakdown): N/A[/li][li] ACT: 31 (two sittings, I forget breakdown)[/li][li] SAT II: 700 USH, 690 Math 1, 640 Lit[/li][li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5 UW, 3.98 W[/li][li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A[/li][li] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Euro (4), AP USH (5), AP Lang (5)[/li][li] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A[/li][li] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Environmental Science, AP Spanish, Intro to Calc, Wind Ensemble[/li][li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, Some award for AMC 12 Test, 2 small course awards, and 2 pretty important school awards</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate Team (Captain), Newspaper (Editor-In-Chief), Political Awareness Club (Founder), Student Advisor, Model UN, Golf Team[/li][li] Job/Work Experience: Boys and Girls Club staff member, work at local restaurant[/li][li] Volunteer/Community service: A LOT. Volunteer at a program that teaches inner city kids to teach golf, Boys and Girls club volunteer, Volunteer at local community theater[/li][li] Summer Activities: Intern for US House of Reps campaign (off-cycle), Intern for Municipal election (We won! woohoo!) Georgetown American Political Institute (Greatest program ever)[/li][li] Essays: Short Answer - I talked about Debate team, The College essay I talked about Georgetowns motto ‘both into one’ and how its integral to politics, and the personal essay I submitted my CA essay (bad choice?) it was about how books are a second pair of “glasses” - yes I wear glasses[/li][li] Teacher Recommendation: I read both of them, and they were both phenomenal, talked about me academically, but also as a leader and as a person in/outside the classroom[/li][li] Counselor Rec: Didn’t get to read, but she really likes me, I assumed ok[/li][li] Additional Rec: N/A[/li][li] Interview: I thought it went really, really well. My interviewer said he wished he could’ve had more of an impact on my application, and it went for almost 2 hours, he was awesome.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[li] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes[/li][li] Intended Major: Government[/li][li] State (if domestic applicant): CT (Fairfield County)[/li][li] Country (if international applicant): 'Murica[/li][li] School Type: Public [/li][li] Ethnicity: Hispanic[/li][li] Gender: Male[/li][li] Income Bracket: 100k-200k[/li][li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Maybe URM?</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[li] Strengths: EC’s, URM (Maybe?), Letters of Rec[/li][li] Weaknesses: Grades/Scores[/li][li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I had basically already accepted I was going to be deferred, unfortunately it still stung a bit, but my GPA sucks cause I way overdid myself beginning of junior year, I knew it was a major reach</p>[/li]
<p>****Note: The Jesuit prep boys school in my town is like a “feeder” school for G-town, I’m not sure if its legitimately, but they’ve always seem to go there for boys from my area, which sucks</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: Oh well, I’m gonna try to transfer in for sophomore year, Hoya Saxa!</p>
<p>are there anymore international students who has not received an email yet,?? Should I be contacting Georgetown to ask about it now… or wait a bit more? Advice appreciated!</p>