<p>Applying EARLY ACTION to Georgetown Walsh Foreign Service, already in progress.
Public School Senior, Full IB Diploma Programme (with Extended Essay, CAS, and TOK, etc. - less recognized than AP courses but gaining recognition and clearly similar - if not more challenging - in full form)</p>
<p><strong>Should mention no calculus, which they seemed to want, and Latin IB when applying to WSFS... not sure if it matters since my language is dead.</strong></p>
<p>Top 10% of class, no # ranking
UW GPA ≈ 3.78
W GPA ≈ 4.2
SAT I
CR=730 M=660
SAT II
Taking October 6 (MATH 2, US HIST, BIO E/M)
<strong>ACT</strong>
Composite: 32</p>
<p>EXTRA CURRICULAR:
---Regular Volunteering through First Tee, golf non-profit (1 or 2 hours a week all year)
---Job since 10th grade 8-10 hrs a week
---JHA/NHS
---Volunteered on my district's Congressmen's campaign, (calling it "internship")
---PTA Student Representative
---Latin Club: President, Vice President, and Treasurer (all separate terms of course)<br>
---Varsity Golf 4 years
---Church Youth Group</p>
<p>Was wondering if anyone could give assessment of these known criteria ^^ and any advice as to essays. Not sure if I should try to make it very creative to stand out and risk totally blowing it with a crap essay, or go with a solid but unexceptional work that wouldn't sway much either way. What to Stress in these essays? Individuality? Drive to succeed?</p>
<p>As I'm interested in upper level schools with solid Social Science / Foreign Service Programs, recommendations for other schools are welcome and appreciated. UVA was my fallback but I'd like to apply to several other Top-Teir places like Georgetown just to up my chances of getting in a Big name school (Lower than Ivys higher than UVA)</p>
<p>BIG THANKS!</p>