I’m currently a junior at at a public school in Pennsylvania and I’m really hoping to get into Georgetown University to study political science. I’dd be fine going to George Washington, but Georgetown would be preferred. I’m worried my SAT is too low so I’m hoping my extra curriculars make up for it. The theater and journalism are my strongest by far. I’m just concerned that the journalism will look too much like a job while I think of it more as an educational thing. I plan to really push my acting in my application through my essay. Are schools like Georgetown looking for strong actors or people with an arts focus or will they really only care if I want to major in Theater? I’m also a little worried about my courses. I’ve taken the hardest social studies and english courses available since freshman year, but I’ve only take the honors and CP Math and science classes while there are AP’s available to me will they care a lot about this?
I’ll have very strong recommendation letters and hopefully some great essays. I have yet to look into anything about interviews yet, but I’m definitely going to do them.
GPA:
-Weighted: 4.1
-Unweighted: 4.0
-31/560 Class Rank
Test Scores:
SAT
Reading: 760
Writing: 610
Math: 580
No ACT
I plan to take the lit, US History, and World History subject tests in June
Course Load:
8th Grade:
Chinese 1
French 1
Freshman Year:
AP US History (4)
Honors Intro to Engineering
Honors English
Honors Biology
CP Algebra 2
French 2
Drama 1
Health
Chorus
Sophomore Year:
AP World History (3)
Honors Chemistry
Honors English
Drama 2
Chorus
CP Statistics
French 3
Junior Year:
AP US Government and Politics
AP English Language
Honors Physics
Honors French 4
CP Pre-Calc
Drama 3
Chorus
Senior Year(scheduled):
AP Microeconomics
AP English Literature
AP Statistics
AP European History
Honors French 5
Senior Acting and Directing(Drama 4)
Chorus
Extra Curriculars:
Theater Company:
-4 Years
-Publicity Officer Sophomore Year
-Historian Junior Year
-President Senior Year
-Awards at state and local levels
-Tech Crew Chief Positions
-Multiple acting parts
Chorus:
-4 Years
-Part of after school auditioned small group select chorus for all 4 years as well
-Historian Senior Year
Model UN:
-3 years
-Historian/Publicity Officer Junior Year
-Vice President Senior Year
-Best Delegate Awards
Journalism:
-Out of School
-Writing for Local Newspaper Teen section
-Over 30 published articles
-Member of executive board
-Participation in Saturday morning radio talk shows about current events
-Internship Senior Year
-Writing is paid but barely(does this make colleges look at it like just a job?)
-radio shows are not paid and entirely volunteer based
National Honor Society Member
Community Service:
-20 hours with suicide prevention music festival
-Multiple hours helping direct at middle school musicals at inner city schools
-Next year I plan on helping out with a local political campaign
-This year I was a counselor at my school’s 6th grade camp and plan on being one again next year
-community theater
I’ve also been working as a lifeguard each summer since freshman year.