I’m a junior planning on applying to Georgetown, GWU, and AU next year. Georgetown is my top choice but I’m worried that my ECs will hurt my chances. I have a 4.0 unweighted a 35 ACT and 1560 SAT. I’m also ranked 1 out of 444 in my class and have taken all AP classes possible.
EC: JV/V Soccer 9-11 (Captain, Defensive Player of the Year, Scholar Athlete Award)
Indoor Soccer 9-11
JV Lacrosse 9 Indoor Lacrosse 10
Interact Club 11-12 which involves frequent community service events.
Dog Sitter
Local Youth Soccer Referee
Weekly Spanish Tutor
NHS
Do I have a good chance for Georgetown?
Please see the pinned post on ECs on the Chances forum.
I have. I live in a rural area in the northeast so a lot of those activities are unrealistic for me. I was just wondering how much mine will hurt me.
I’d say you have a pretty good shot. Do what makes sense or interests you. If you can do anything related to your planned major (which I assume has something to do with politics given your school list), then do that this summer and next fall.
Thanks, I will definitely look into that.
Your stats are incredible (especially class rank). Gtown loves super highly ranked kids. But yeah, definitely try to up your extracurriculars. It seems like you’re not passionate about anything, and that’s an application killer.
Do you think a good essay can help with that? I really enjoy the interact club and plan on writing on that but couldn’t join it earlier in school because of the time that sports took up.