@1zogden1 at Starbucks
Just submitted my EA app!
I applied early action and have not heard anything from an alumni interviewer. Anyone else still waiting for their interview?
So for the Georgetown SFS essay, yay or nay on citations?
Just submitted my EA application… Good luck everyone! 
How can you see if Georgetown received ACT scores? Do they send an email to confirm?
@2017ar Georgetown does not send an email.
@lhowlett17 When you submit the first part of the app, your information is to be matched up with an interviewer. You will receive an email from Georgetown with the name of your interviewer and you have to contact the interviewer to schedule the interview. When did you submit the first part of the application?
The app is due before 11:59 tomorrow, right?
Tonight at 11:59. I think they will contact you if anything is missing. Their portal doesn’t have some of the exact details like which scores they have received, etc. So if you sent everything out on time, you should be fine.
New to this thread, but just submitted my early action application! Good luck y’all!
Is anyone submitting their first quarter grades/Does Georgetown accept first quarter grades for the EA round? I was just wondering because I did really well this quarter but my school says they don’t send any quarter grades…which sucks.
I think if Georgetown wants them, they will contact your counselor. They state on their website that they really only use info through junior year for EA, so they may not want the grades. But if you get deferred, they will definitely want to see them.
@gongju Georgetown will accept the first quarter grades or whatever grades are available in January for submission as the mid-year report for the students that are deferred. I would not send them in now as I doubt they would look at them. Understand that while you are pleased that you did very well the first quarter (great news so congrats), from Georgetown’s perspective they are making the decision on everything submitted through junior year and they would expect your senior year grades to be strong. If they are unsure, then they will defer a student and you can submit additional information for the RD consideration.
Hey guys, could someone chance me? I’ve already asked, but some circumstances have changed (basically my ECs and awards)
Objective
School: SFS (I want culture and politics)… does concentration choice within a school matter
SAT I (breakdown): Not taken
ACT (breakdown): 31- (31 E, 28 S, 36 R, 28 Math). 32 Superscore (31E, 32S, 36R, 28M)
SAT II: 700 Bio, 600 Math 2 (YIKES), 490 Latin (Double YIKES)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.83
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 8%
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Bio (3), AP Lang (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis):N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Euro, AP Latin, AP Econ, AB Calc, Art (required)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): High Honors, National Latin Exam Gold Medal (hope this balances out my poor Latin Subject Test Scores), Got an ROTC scholarship at Princeton, U Chicago, and Georgetown of course (this doesn’t play into admissions, but I listed it under awards), State Dept wrote an article about my experiences and time in Morocco (dunno if this is an award, but I emailed the article to my admissions counselor, and she added it to my file lol)
Subjective
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Intern at Council On American Islamic Affairs aka CAIR, Varsity Track and Football, (President of School Cultural Club), (MUN officer), National Security Language Initiative for Youth
Job/Work Experience: Work at Old Navy 20 hr per week,
Volunteer/Community service: Boy’s Council (tutor disadvantaged 6th grade boys), Regular volunteer at Cincinnati’s refugee center and I use my Arabic skills to help resettle them
Summer Activities: NSLI-Y (State Dept Scholarship that allowed me to go to Morocco to study Arabic this summer), I’m applying for yet another State Dept scholarship at the moment called YES abroad (hope to go to Jordan to study Arabic and Islam for a gap year)
Essays: Probably really good, writing about being a quadruplet and how my struggle for individuality lead to my interest in Arabic and IR. For SFS I’m writing about racism in the Middle East (I experienced it while on scholarship in Morocco, being an African American), My EC essay was about working at CAIR
Teacher Recommendation: Pretty good ones from AP econ teacher, another from AP bio teacher
Counselor Rec: I saw that she checked either top 5% or best she’s ever encounter in her career for the ratings. Don’t know about what she actually wrote
Additional Rec: My Resident Director from NSLI-Y(she LOVED me, and personally asked if she could write one for me)
Interview: It went well (my interviewer cursed a lot in a buddy-ish way… so that good I think?)
Other: Proficient in Arabic, Latin, and Darija (Moroccan Arabic)
Applying for Financial Aid?: Yes
State (if domestic applicant): Ohio
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 150K (but I’m a quad soooo that ain’t gonna cut it for college high key)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, Quadruplet, I got a fee waiver for my application (because my bros and I are applying all at once… dunno if this would be viewed positively, negatively, or with ambivalence)
In conclusion, my test scores worry me a lot. They’ve already been sent, and I’ve applied EA. Ya’ll think the admissions gods while smile upon my application? I don’t want to have unrealistic hopes.
@NikkuWadde you are right that your scores are low for Georgetown, but you do potentially offer them a fresh perspective based on your background, which might really be appealing to them in SFS. Not many students bring to the table some of the things you do, so I think they will definitely give your application serious consideration. Good luck!
Will not having three subject tests for the EA round be a big strike against me? I know its not as important as it is in the RD round and people have gotten in EA and RD without three, but does it severely lower my chances?
Do you have any? Or zero? I think it truly won’t hurt because they really rely only on info through junior year.
@collegemomjam I have one decent score(Bio 720). I know “strongly recommended” is basically required so I plan on taking them in January in the likely case I get deferred. Their website made it seem like it was ok to not have subject tests EA because there is not much time to take them. But still it must look bad when I only have one score while others could have 3x800s.
One more question. I’ve been in contact (via email) with the President of Georgetown’s NAACP-- she was an undergrad at the Georgetown College, and she is a law fellow at Georgetown and President of its chapter of the NAACP, and we scheduled a call for Saturday because she is surprised by the fact that I want to study race relations in the Middle East. Could this possibly play positively into admissions? (I want to talk to her regardless. She seems interesting, and I’m eager to learn more from a former student and now law fellow’s perspective).