I’m EA too! Just got my SAT US History score - 770. Not sure if that’s good enough for Georgetown?
Does georgetown require official ap scores to be sent from college board??
I have my Georgetown interview next week, I am super nervous!
@junseo6 Yes, after you have enrolled.
honestly shut the hell up. you are going through so much omg 
you got a 770? Thank you for sharing your plight
Hey guys. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts as to what my chances are. I am applying to the college as a government major.
ACT: 34, 35 superscore
SAT: 1480 (740 both)
SAT Subject Tests: US History 780, Literature 730, and Math II 670 (math isn’t great, but I also sent in my 5 in AP Calc, and since I don’t want to do anything with math, I don’t think it will have too much bearing)
AP: AP GOPO 5, AP Calc AB 5
IB: German 6 (we take our foreign language exam early)
Course load: I am at an IB school, so I have taken basically all of the AP classes they offer in addition to my IB course load, so I won’t have many APs to send in (since IB exams are taken at the end of senior year) but they will still see I have been taking the most challenging classes I can
Unweighted GPA: 4.0,
Weighted GPA: 5.303 (my school does weighted GPAs super weird, so my rank is probably a little more revealing than my GPA)
Rank: 6/261
Extracurriculars:
Mock Trial: all 4 years of high school,became captain my junior year; I have 11 most effective attorney awards as well as a most dependable award
Student Activism club, founder
Intern at our local chamber of commerce every week
Volunteered on a congressional campaign this summer against 3 term incumbent until campaign ended
Work as a runner at a local law firm about 7 hours a week
Volunteer at our local museum where I help with kids activities
Member of the National Honors Society, Science National Honors Society, and German National Honors Society (these are all the ones my schools offers).
Beta club
Math team (1 year) and soccer (1 year) - not that important but I think I checked the box on the application
Junior Marshal at our school which only the top 20 students get to do
Awards:
Mock trial (mentioned above)
Silver on the National German Exam
Varsity letter in academics (I know it’s weird, but my school gave them out so I listed it)
Essays: I think my essays were pretty good. I had others read them and edited them multiple times myselfs, and I think they are interesting and personal. I think they really conveyed my personality and passion for government.
Recommendations: I think my recommendations should be good. One is from my 9th and 10th grade English teacher. She liked me a lot both years she had me, and she definitely knows I am a hard worker. She is also the mock trial teacher, and I am (I’m pretty sure) the first junior at our school to ever become captain, and I have broken the record for awards, including leading our team to state for only the second time in a long time. So, I think she will be able to speak to my leadership skills and my just overall extraness. My other recommendation is from my 11th and 12th grade english teacher (idk why it always ends up english). She has known me for a while and I consider her a friend. She also taught my Theory of Knowledge class for IB, where I actually got so into a conversation about the National School Walkout that I organized a group of students and got an article published in our local newspaper about it. Because of this, I started the student activism club with a friend, and she is the teacher supervisor for that, so she has seen my be very passionate about things and be a leader.
I have not had my interview yet (it is in a few weeks), but I am normally pretty good at that type thing and I have practiced, so I think it will go pretty well.
I don’t have any amazing hooks or anything. No legacy, but I am from SC and I know that is usually less competitive than like California or NY, so that could be good. I am female.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. (wow I realize that this is super long, oops)
@willisbet I think your application is strong and that you have a good chance, especially if your why Georgetown/major essay is strong, I think they really take that into account. I also don’t think the math subject test is a problem. Good luck!
Thanks so much!!!
is there a score threshold for the subject tests that the applicants should try to hit or surpass? Guess I’m not familiar with how these will be used - admissions or placement or both?
I don’t think there are thresholds. For a school like Georgetown, 750+ scores obviously look the best, but I think if 2 of the 3 are in the 700’s and one is not quite there but it’s not in your academic area of interest, they won’t hold it against you. And having taken three at this point in time (which many people do just because they are applying to Georgetown because not sure there are any other schools that require 3?) shows you are taking your application seriously. If you are on the fence with your scores and applying EA, maybe you could register for December tests (there are no more January, are there?) and take some more/try to get scores up if you think you can. They realize students in the EA phase may not have had time for 3 tests.
^ Thanks that’s helpful! My son took three subject tests in October. He’ll apply RD. I do believe G-Town is the only school (certainly the only one he’s applying to) that requires three.
Did anybody else have their interview yet? Mine went super fast! I was given the assignment yesterday so I emailed him that night, received a response the next morning and interviewed with him this afternoon. Our interview went on for about 30-45 minutes. He told me he liked my qualities and would give me a good word! I was very nervous, I met with him in his law office only 10 minutes from me so it was very convenient
@mkb679 I had mine about 2 weeks ago, and I had a very similar experience! It was all set up fairly quickly. I was super nervous as well going into it, but everything turned out great and our conversation was engaging. Mine was about 35 minutes as well.
Mine was very very short. We met at the interviewer’s law firm office and she had just a few questions. There wasn’t much of a conversation because she kept getting interrupted to set up a conference call for her business. There wasn’t a flow, which was too bad. I am hopeful that she will recognize that the choppiness was due to her being called away over and over again. I didn’t leave with a good feeling because all I had a chance to do was to talk about a few things that have meaning to me and ask one question of her. I did have an interview with a dean at the school so that may be more helpful. Anyway, fingers crossed and good luck to everyone!
Hi, a current student here (COL '22). Georgetown doesn’t require subject tests but they do recommend it. If you have not taken subject tests, still apply EA (if you want). I did not submit subject tests to my application and was admitted EA. Georgetown wants them but not needed. Also, Georgetown doesn’t reject anyone in the EA round so you’ll just be deferred and your application will be read again during regular decision when you can submit test scores later!
I emailed my assigned interviewer 3 days ago and haven’t heard back. What should I do? Email them again? Call them? Tell my alumni admissions chair person? The email says to contact the chair person if the interviewer doesn’t respond within a few weeks
^ wait a few more days till it’s been a week. Then re-mail with a “follow-up” and let them know you’ll contact them byh phone in a day or so (give a day and time) to touch base. That’s assuming you have their phone #. If you don’t hear back after two weeks of initial reaching out, contact the chair person.
Is there any place to put AP Scores on the Georgetown Application? I looked and could not find anywhere. Do we have to send them?
^ No.
So most applicants don’t send them until admitted? Thanks.