@cococo3 NO SUBJECT TEST and a 31? how.
Yeah, I was surprised too. I think it was my extracurricular’s, volunteerism and great letters of rec…
Decision: Accepted
Objective
SAT I (breakdown): none
ACT (breakdown): 33, second try, (35E, 35R, 32S, 28M)
SAT II: 640 Lit (took on the November date after EA deadline)
still waiting on scores from Math 1 and Bio-E from December date
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.318
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/54
AP (place score in parenthesis): none, school does not offer
IB (place score in parenthesis): none, school does not offer
Senior Year Course Load:
- Dual credits: 1st sem: Intro to Ethics, Intermediate French I, Composition 1 2nd sem: Intro to Stats, Composition II
-Normal HS classes
1st sem: Advanced Chem, Senior Experience, Anatomy and Physiology
2nd sem: Advanced Chem, Anatomy & Phys., Personal Finance
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none lmao
Subjective
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Council (President, 11th and 12th), NHS (Treasurer, 12th), Key Club (Secretary, 11th and 12th), Scrubs Camp (11th and 12th), Girls State 2019 (city councilor), Knowledge Bowl (11th and 12th), placed on local math competition twice
Job/Work Experience: Interpreter 1 (aka tour guide) and Lead Desk Attendant at non-profit research paleontology museum since spring of freshman year
Volunteer/Community service: 100+ hours with a local nursing home, 80 hours with pharmacy, 30 hours with NHS, 30 hours with Key Club
Summer Activities: Girls State, took 4 dual credit college classes last summer, full-time work, vacation to home country
Essays (rating 1-10, details): I won’t rate them because it is hard to rate your own essays, but I am pretty proud of them and I think they are unique to myself.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): School Counselor, Bio/Anatomy teacher and Key Club Advisor, English/Journalism/Junior Year STuCo advisor. All are about 9-10/10s. They know me very well and have worked with me a lot these past years. No additional rec.
Interview: 11/10. We jumped into the conversation right off the bat. Lasted about 1 hour and 15 minutes. It was very informative yet relaxed and friendly at the same time. In one answer I gave, she said it was the most Georgetown thing she’s ever heard.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: Nursing
State (if domestic applicant): SD
School Type: public, rural, small
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 100k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I’m from the midwest? lmao
Reflection
Strengths: essays and interview, maybe my volunteer hours
Weaknesses: sat subject tests since I didn’t have any when I applied, no major awards
Decision: Accepted
Objective:
SAT: didn’t test
ACT: Composite 34 (35E 31M 36R 36S)
SAT Subject Tests: didn’t test
Unweighted GPA: 3.92
Weighted GPA: 4.5 ish (school doesn’t calculate)
Rank: school doesn’t calculate
AP: Human Geography (5), US History (5), European History (5), BC Calc (4, AB subscore 5)
IB: none
Senior Year Course Load: AP Statistics, AP Psychology, Orchestra, AP English Lit, IB History of Europe HL
major awards: none?
Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Varsity swimming and water polo, NHS, violin and orchestra (section leader)
Work Experience: Worked as a mentor at an international relations camp on a college campus, host at a local restaurant, interned for local democratic party
Volunteer: not much, did NCL for a few years
Summer: working on college campus, democratic party, sports
Essays: thought they were pretty good
Recommendations: good, from teachers who have taught me multiple times and a good counselor letter. Interview went really well.
Other:
Financial Aid: yes
Major: government (georgetown college)
State: Utah
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Income bracket: lower middle class
Hooks: pretty rough home life that led me to have a lot of responsibility, etc.
Reflection
Probably got in because of my summer experience and family situation
Strengths: personal story, test scores, internships
Weaknesses: lack of community service (seems pretty important at Georgetown), no SAT subject tests.
Decision: Accepted EA to Georgetown College Government Major
Objective
SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT (breakdown): 36 Superscore(36 R, 36E, 35M, 35S)
SAT II:
US History: 800
Literature: 760
Biology: 720
Weighted GPA: 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): NA/274
AP (place score in parenthesis):
Human Geography(5)
World History(5)
US History(5)
Biology(5)
Language and Composition(5)
Calc BC(3, 4 on AB Subscore)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: 5 APs
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
National Merit Commended Student
AP Scholar With Distinction
USSYP Alternate
Subjective
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Many leadership roles in school clubs/activities
Helped Start a student-run organization to increase youth activism in politics
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: Sporadic throughout high school
Teacher Rec #1: APUSH Teacher from Junior year
Teacher Rec #2: Sophomore English Teacher
Counselor Rec: Strong
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: Very strong
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Government
State (if domestic applicant): Nebraska
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Private, College Prep
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Middle Class
Objective
Decision: Deferred
SAT I (breakdown): 1540
ACT (breakdown): 33 super scored (35/34/33/31)
SAT II: 730 Chemistry, 730 Biology M, 780 US History, 800 Math II, 780 World History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): My school does a 100 scale and I had a 95 UW GPA
Weighted GPA: 101
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): My school does not rank but I was top ten percent
AP (place score in parenthesis): Spanish Language (5), World History (4), US History (4), English Language (3), Chemistry (4), Biology (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load:
AP Spanish Literature
AP English Literature
BC Calculus
AP Physics C Mechanics
PE Fitness
Play Production
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Most Outstanding Freshman Science Student
Cum Laude Society
National Honor Society
AP Scholar with Distinction
Junior Marshal for class of 2019’s convocaiton and graduation
Subjective
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
USTA Tennis (Traveled around south and played tournaments against some of nation’s best players)
Varsity Tennis Team (Co Captain for Senior Year, 3x All State, 2x Conference player of the year, 3x all Conference)
Service Without Borders Treasurer (Managed funds and budget for club that aided my school’s sister schools in South Africa and Nicaragua, victims of natural disasters, and a local underprivileged elementary school)
Varsity Science Olympiad Team member (Earned a bronze medal in Remote Sensing, Silver in Rocks & Minerals and Remote Sensing, and gold in Rocks & Minerals and Thermodynamics)
Student Diversity Leadership Council (Attended SDLC in Anaheim in 2017, Organized numerous social justice activities for my school including an International Food Night which I headed)
Boys on the Ball Member (Leadership and Mentoring club for 4th and 6th grade boys)
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service:
National Honor Society
Adventure Sail (Volunteered at Afterschool YMCA program where I helped young children learn about sailing and aided them in building sailboats)
Camper in Leadership Training at Camp Sea Gull (Helped out in younger cabin while also working on the power boating activity where I gave children rides and monitored maintenance of boats)
Summer Activities:
National Institute of Health summer internship in Bethesda, MD (shadowed a reproductive endocrinology group of med students, fellows, and residents as they screened patients, performed biopsies, and attended lectures)
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Education Essay for Georgetown College (8): I wrote about how being educated not only knowing a lot of information but also how applying what you have learned to real world problems is how one becomes truly educated. I described by experiences of being educated by watching Jeopardy every night and how I want to use my college experiences to find a solution to the paper vs. plastic straw dilema.
Creative Essay: (10) I used this essay also for my common app and wrote about how I started my massive deck of cards collection. I started after I self taught my self texas hold’em by watching my cabin mates and eventually became the best in camp. I ten needed a new deck of cards and bought a coca-cola deck at the coke museum in Atlanta and subsequently began collecting decks from my travels. This essay showed a creative side of me along with my analytical skills.
Extracurricular essay (7): I wrote about how USTA tennis has provided me with numerous experiences even beyond playing matches. From making friends to traveling to unexpected locations, I talked about how tennis is something that has always been special to me.
Ability Essay (5): I wrote about how I have become very good at multitasking. Kinda cheesy but I have always felt like this is an essential skill of mine.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: English Teacher/Advisor/Tennis Coach (10): Not only did my first reccomendor teach me AP English Language during my Junior year, but she was also my school tennis coach and adviser and definitely spoke about my growth over time in high school and numerous highlights.
Teacher Rec #2: Biology Teacher (9): My Biology teacher taught me in both 10th and 11th grade. I greatly enjoyed this class and she definitely enjoyed my insightful and lighthearted comments. This was definitely a good reccomendation.
Counselor Rec: (8) I am not really sure about this one. Although she was my leader on a school backpacking trip and could speak about many experiences from the trip, I don’t know how much she really knew about me before the trip other than like 3 meetings. She definitely knew I was a good student and could probably write about that.
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: (8) This was my first college interview and I think I did a good job. I answered all questions based mostly of my resume that I brought and I think I elaborated when necessary.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Chemistry
State (if domestic applicant): NC
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Half Asian Indian/Half White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Upper
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Biracial
Reflection
Strengths: Test scores, Grades, Recommendations
Weaknesses: Most likely essays
Decision: Accepted
Objective
SAT I (breakdown): 1540- 1 time- (780ERBW/760Math)
ACT (breakdown): 36 - 1 time- (36R, 35W, 35M, 36S)
SAT II:
Math 2- 790
Chemistry- 800
Spanish- 710
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
Weighted GPA: 4.793
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry (5), Calc BC (5), Lang (4)
Senior Year Course Load:
AP Physics, AP Spanish, AP Psych, Honors English, AP Stats, Honors Math Modeling
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
National Merit Commended Scholar
AP Scholar
NSDA Degree of Special Distinction
Subjective
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Crew, Public Forum Debate, Chemistry Club, Spanish National Honor Society (Secretary), NHS, Peer Tutoring
Job/Work Experience: a few different part time jobs since freshman year
Volunteer/Community service: I volunteer at a local food bank
Summer Activities: none
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Personal Essay -8/10- My experience living in Mexico City and overcoming my social anxiety while needing to be the translator for my parents to the point where I love the art of communication. It was pretty strong.
Meaningful Activity- 7/10- Talked about learning about conflict and critical thinking and perspectives during debate. It wasn’t bad but I just don’t think it was anything special.
Nursing and Health Sciences Essay- 10/10- I poured my heart and soul into this essay talking about why I wanted to go into healthcare because of my experience living in Mexico and seeing things that a lot of people from my background don’t. I had a few very intense personal anecdotes that I thought made the essay strong.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: AP Chem teacher. I had her sophomore and junior year. Our AP Chem class was really small so we had a good relationship and she knows a lot about me outside of school. 9/10
Teacher Rec #2: My AP Lang teacher from junior year. I did well in her class and she liked me but she doesn’t know me super well. 7/10
Counselor Rec: I go to a really big school so our counselors don’t know us super well but we fill out brag sheets and spent like 45 minutes talking about the answers to a survey to help her with writing it. She also had my brother so she knows my parents and family relatively well. 8/10
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: It wan’t fantastic. I’m not a great interviewer and it was pretty short but the interviewer was really nice and young and we did talk about some interesting things so I think I left a pretty decent impression.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Global Health
State (if domestic applicant): Massachusetts
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Large Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 300,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
Reflection
Strengths: My scores are strong and I think my extracurriculars are as well. I also think I have a strong “story” (for lack of better word) that comes through in my essays and recommendations.
Weaknesses: I don’t have a ton of leadership and my grades are not the very top of my class.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I have no idea I was completely expecting to get deferred. But, if I had to think of a reason I think it would be because of the passion for making a difference in Global Health that I showcased in my essay. I had very specific and meaningful experiences that lead to my interest in the field.
Accepted to SFS, with 35 ACT, 4.0 GPA and SAT II’s: 710 Lit, 690 Math II, 790 Spanish
Decision: Accepted
Objective
SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT (breakdown): 35 C (36, 36, 35, 34)
SAT II: Math Level II: 800, World History: 770
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
Weighted GPA: 4.71
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 16/314
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Government (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: IB Math HL, IB English HL, IB French HL, IB Physics HL, IB Business and Management SL
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): DECA International Finalist and 2x state champion, National Merit Commended, FIRST Dean’s List Semifinalist, state-wide school newspaper award, other smaller ones
Subjective
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
- Business Team Lead on FIRST Robotics team. Wrote blogs, published newsletter to 150+ people, cold-called sponsors and delivered presentations, composed and wrote business plan which won 2 awards, and raised $15,000.
- Editor and Business Manager on student newspaper, handled all advertising matters
- Vice President of DECA
- President and Founder of Biking Club, because I wanted to do something different
- Charity Club leader
- Key Club International
- Track and Field
- Cross Country
Job/Work Experience: Unpaid political intern, local job at McDonalds
Volunteer/Community service: 200+ hours
Summer Activities: work, extracurriculars, and volunteering
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 9/10, poured my heart out on them
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: IDK, no kidding I goofed off in his class sometimes
Teacher Rec #2: 9/10, counselor said it was “short but very well-written and sweet” by teacher who loved me
Counselor Rec: IDK, for a public school with 1300+ kids she knew me by name
Additional Rec: wait there was an additional?
Interview: 7.5/10, nothing special but we bonded over some things and it went good
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yuh
Intended Major: Finance at McDonough School of Business
State (if domestic applicant): Southeast
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public non-catholic
Ethnicity: not a good one for applying to colleges
Gender: see above
Income Bracket: not low enough to get a lot, but not high enough to
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): absolutely none
Reflection
Strengths: Decent ACT & SAT Subject Test scores, and GPA, and one good teacher rec. The essays prolly secured the bag though. They’re important!
Weaknesses: GPA not perfect, not catholic, no hooks.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Praise the Lord
Results: accepted SFS
Objective
SAT:1490
SAT II: US history 780, World History 730, Math 700
Coursework: AP World History, AP Physics, AP US History, AP Lang, AP Research, AP French, AP Gov, AP Enviro, AP Lit, AP Seminar ( senior version of research), AP AB Calculus
Grades: Mostly A’s but ended with a couple B’s
Unweighted GPA: 3.8
Subjective:
Extracurriculars:
Swim: 4x varsity letter recipient, 4x Scholar Athlete, 2x District swimmer,
Developmental swim team coach, Lifeguard ( have made multiple rescues), Private Lessons swim coach, year-around club swimmer, Senior leader for swim team ( makes posters and skits for little kids before they race), spirit award winner,
Model UN: 2x chair of committee, Club officer and treasurer, national conference team member,
Awards: (local and national) : 2x Fourth place, 4x third place, 3x second place, won first place at North American Invitational MUN Conference ( Conference Georgetown hosts)
Reporter for school newspaper
Honor Societies:
NHS member
National English Honor Society leadership board member, (headed public speaking initiative for elementary schoolers)
Service: Will earn civic service seal for volunteering 50 hrs or more throughout high school, will also earn capstone diploma for social science research classes ( AP research and Seminar)
Essays:
Skill essay: talked about my early curiosity for cars, and how this curiosity has manifested itself as a love for politics
Personal Essay: talked about my Lebanese heritage and how my experiences of people not believing that I’m half middle eastern because of my fair skin have taught me about stereotypes and encouraged me to research beyond them through activities such as Model UN
Extracurricular Essay: Talked how swimming has taught me to be patient and realize that success often takes a long time to achieve even with hard work
Global issue essay: talked about my belief in the universal right to death with dignity laws(m ( right to end your life if you are terminally-ill) tied this into my relationship with grandma
Recs:
counselor rec: I go to a big school so we had to provide her with a list of achievements. I knew her well but probably not that special of a rec
AP Lang teacher: good relationship with this teacher also because she is the National English Honor Society sponsor
AP capstone teacher: had him for two years, really got to know him, honestly probably this rec really helped get in
Interview: interviewer said I crushed it afterword ( I think this helped a lot also)
Learning experience: Going into the process I knew that I didn’t have the best grades out of all the applicants , so I would have to do well in other ways. Only applying to two schools really helped me focus hours upon hours on perfecting my essays, and resume.
Decision: Deferred
Objective
SAT I (breakdown): 760 EBRW, 720 Math
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II: 800 Math 2, 700 Literature
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
Weighted GPA: N/A
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus AB and BC (4), US Gov&Pol (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Indian School Certificate, Phy/Chem/Math with Economics and English
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMSQT Commendation
Subjective
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
- President of my school's debating society, won 2 national championships and placed 24th best speaker at the second-largest international tournament in the world.
- Grade 6 Piano with distinction.
- Lead role in 2 school plays
- Class President Grades 9 and 11 Job/Work Experience: Volunteer/Community service: Executive Board for our school's annual fundraiser. Summer Activities: Mostly debating Essays (rating 1-10, details): Stuff was a bit risky here. I was told that 3 of the essays were solid 8s or 9s, but for the "all applicants" essay i wrote a pretty risky essay that made fun of these kinds of essays where we have to compress our personalities into so few words. Unsure how it was received. Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: English, easy 10
Teacher Rec #2: Physics, anywhere between 7 and 9 based on his mood
Counselor Rec: He said that he wrote something along the lines of any institution would be making a huge mistake not admitting me (an “extraordinary young man”) based on a few slips in my grades (circumstances).
Additional Rec: History from freshman and sophomore year, easy 10.
Interview: I thought it went really well, I’d say between 7 and 9.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: PoliSci
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): India
School Type: International but I did an Indian Syllabus
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Low
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Dead family member, was one of two of his caretakers in 9th and 10th. He died before my junior year.
Reflection: My grades in 9th and 10th along with the first sem of 11th were kind of shaky, but I improved them significantly after that. I also self-studied for the three APs I wrote entirely myself. However, I can still reasonably infer that my grades were not up to the mark for this school.
Strengths: ECs, Recs
Weaknesses: Grades from earlier in HS
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Weaknesses, and my essay may not have been well received.
Accepted into the college (major undeclared)
Latina girl from FL
SAT I (breakdown): 1520
ACT (breakdown): 35
SAT II: 730 math 1, 730 spanish, 740 literature
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7 / 4.0
Weighted GPA: no idea, i took like 8 APs
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a idk
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Honors Society, Spanish NHS, Science NHS, AP Scholar w/ distinction
Subjective
lots of extracurriculars, leadership positions, community service, summer jobs, put in a lot of work outside of academics
Essays: lowkey pretty good
ngl my interview was not fun but it was fine & i guess it doesn’t matter that much
School Type: Private prep school
Ethnicity: Cuban
Gender: Female
Decision: Deferred
Objective
SAT I: 1470 (710 EBRW 760 Math)
ACT: Didn’t take
SAT II: Didn’t take
Unweighted GPA: N/A
Weighted GPA: 4.456
Rank: 11/402
AP: U.S History (5), Art History (5), Lang & Comp (5), Human Geography (5), Bio (4), Psych (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Euro, AP Macro Economics, AP Stat, AP Gov, Independent Study Spanish II Honors, Latin IV Honors
Major Awards: Coca-cola semifinalist, hospital volunteer award, AP Scholar with distinction, some smaller school/quiz bowl/mun/karate awards
Subjective
Extracurriculars:
Model UN (pres)
Book Club (founder/pres)
Key Club (secretary)
Orchestra (secretary + played in 4 honors groups)
Quiz Bowl (varsity)
Karate (12+ yrs, 2nd degree black belt, in select group)
Badminton Club (co-founder, former treasurer)
Job/Work Experience:
Worked 24+ hrs/wk as a food service worker at a retirement home
Volunteer/Community service:
probably 500+ hrs from tutoring since sophomore year, mentoring a disadvantaged student in elementary school during junior year, volunteering at the hospital every weekend since sophomore year, teaching classes and performing demos at karate, and doing service projects for NHS and Key Club. I also coordinated/initiated a project between my school and the local retirement home to better the lives of the residents.
Essays: 7/10 I was proud of them, two of them might of been too personal which distracted from what I was trying to highlight idk
Recommendations:
Teacher Rec #1 & #2: 7/10 MUN teacher/HUG & Euro; Latin teacher for 3 years
Counselor Rec: 4/10 I had a new counselor coming into senior year whose never been a high school counselor and I only met him a few times
Interview: 6/10 I had to do most of the talking and she listened. It was nice but short (30 mins) and I got to talk a lot about about the school. She did ask me two questions that threw me off: what I least was looking forward to Georgetown and what other schools I was applying to
Applied for Financial Aid?: ya
Intended Major: Global Business
State (if domestic applicant): PA
School Type: Public; Farming/Suburban Town
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: upper-middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): 1st gen/parents are both war refugees
Reflection
Strengths: Leadership/Volunteerism, hooks
Weaknesses: SAT (I took them 4 times) and I didn’t take my SATs II since I didn’t have time for them, rec from counselor, essays (?)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I really thought I had a decent chance of getting in. Looking back, I should have written my essays about some of my extracurriculars because I don’t have a lot of prestigious awards to exemplify them.
Sucks to not get in but writing this has been very cathartic
Congrats to everyone who got in 
[asize=4][acolor=#008000]Decision: Accepted[/color][/size]
Objective:
SFS / International Political Economy
SAT I (breakdown): 1480 (740, 740)
ACT (breakdown): 33 (36 Eng, 32 Math, 36 Writing, 28 Sci)
SAT II: Math II (790), Literature (670, bad i know), AP scores sent for rest
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.730/5
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/543
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Human Geo (4), AP World (4), AP Stats (4), AP Lang (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): IB Math SL (6), IB Spanish B (7)
Senior Year Course Load: APUSH, IB Bio 3, IB English 4, IB Psych 3, IB Contemp. History, IB TOK, AP Calc BC
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Yale Bassett Award for Community Engagement, TED-Ed X UNICEF National Speech Competition Winner, Florida Young Democrats 2019 Uprising Activist Award, AP Honor with Distinction, other awards are regional/state level
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): UNICEF (Founder and President at my school);
ACLU National Youth Fellow;
Brevard County Young Democrats (VP);
March For Our Lives (State Representative);
Interfaith Alliance of Brevard (Outreach Chair);
and then the mundane honor societies: NHS, Mu Alpha Theta, Spanish Honor Society, Science Honor Society
Job/Work Experience: Field Organizer for Congressional candidate during 2018 Midterms (24 weeks);
Data Analyst for School Board Campaign (12 weeks);
PACSUN Sales Associate (approx. 22 months)
Volunteer/Community service: (I will only list the ones I played an integral role in coordinating)
Keynote Speaker at UNICEF National Summit in D.C.;
UNICEF Advocacy on Capitol Hill: day long lobbying session with congress members and senators;
A lot of work with the ACLU: Lobbying sessions, Meetings with state/national representatives, marches, protests, panels, town halls, canvassing, etc.
March For Our Lives: Melbourne, FL March: coordinator+speaker, over 3,000 in attendance; MFOL Town Hall: coordinator+panelist with over 600 in attendance;
MFOL Road to Change: After seeing the success of our Melbourne MFOL town hall, I was invited by the national organization to join the Parkland students on their regional tour. I joined them for about 2 weeks in FL, AL, GA, and SC; Currently a state rep. and work with the national team to organize events and manage chapters in FL
Inside Out Project: one for World Refugee Day and one for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting
Civic Engagement: Congressional Town Halls: coordinator and panel moderator; Local Candidates Meet&Greet: coordinator; Annual Mosque Open House: coordinator and speaker with attendances of usually 800-1000 a year; Two art murals in our local art district to symbolize the turning of tides and unity through diversity
I LOVE PUBLIC SPEAKING and speak at nearly every event which has gained me quite a reputation in the district
Summer Activities: Democratic Executive Committee Internship (June 2018-August 2018);
Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Justice Center Internship: Courthouse Internship where I shadowed a circuit judge for the summer of 2019 alongside students in law school;
Rock the Vote Internship (June 2019-August 2019); Dozens of advocacy/civic engagement events;
Traveled to Bahamas, Jamaica, Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Amsterdam, and Jordan
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Hard to rate my own essays
Special Skills Essay: 8/10-I took a more creative approach and wrote a funny narrative about a ton of skills I DONT have, such as building rocket ships using paper mache, choreographing touchdown celebration dances for the Patriots, negotiating peace deals, maintaining my cover as Batman, etc.-had a full-circle ending that indicated i was not being serious
Personal Essay: 9/10-Viewing the struggles I face as a Hijabi Muslim women to my advantage to challenge the cultural discourse of my time and becoming a catalyst of reformation/all wrapped together through an extended metaphor based on a funny childhood story (includes my passion for public speaking)
Activity Essay: 8/10-wrote about my involvement with UNICEF/ accomplishments and recognition/ personal connection since my parents were Palestinian refugees practically saved by UNICEF/future involvement since I have been accepted as a member of the National Council for the 2020-2021 year
SFS essay about global problem: 9/10 Since I would like to major in International Political Economy, I wrote about how the US is likely headed towards a recession, using the inverted yield curve and tensions from the trade war with China as evidence, and how a recession in the US affects the global economy, political, and social standings of individuals. brought it to a smaller scale to suggest how individuals will be impacted. well-developed, morally beneficial suggestion as how to solve the problem. i worked really hard on this essay and ran it by economic advisers for approval 
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 10/10-three years in math/ sponsor of my UNICEF club/close relationship/GLOWING rec. 2 full pages
Teacher Rec #2: didn’t read but guessing 9/10-AP Lang and IB Eng. teacher/great relationship/recognizes and encourages my passion for civic engagement&politics
Counselor Rec: 8/10-IB Counselor/close relationship
Additional Rec: (submitted after EA deadline :neutral: will be used for regular) 10/10-Longest serving judge in our district/very close relationship/reason I became interested in pursuing law
Interview: 10/10-Lasted a little over 1 hour, WONDERFUL, engaging discussion that didn’t even feel like an interview/ told me i had the most impressive resume she had seen/ recognized my passion for civic engagement and intellectual curiosity/frequent contact since interview-she reached out to my parents to thank them for how they raised me, asks about events im speaking at so she can attend, and sends me links to opportunities at Georgetown
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: YES!
Intended Major: International Political Economy
State (if domestic applicant): Florida
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Middle Eastern
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: $90,000-100,000 but three other siblings (2 in college)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, First gen American, American-Palestinian, Muslim
Reflection
Strengths: Extracurriculars and involvement in the community/ GPA and rank/ recommendations+interview/ my essays but i could just be hyping them up
Weaknesses: SAT/ACT scores are bad compared to others applying
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted: UCF, most likely UF (god willing), waiting for rest…
Good luck!
Decision : Deferred
SAT I: 1420
SAT 11: 690 US History 680 Bio E 660 Math 11 650 Bio M
Unweighted GPA : 3.89
Weighted : 4.67
Class rank : not reported
AP NSL (5) AP World (4) APUSH (5) AP LANG (3) AP Bio (3)
Senior year courses : AP AB Calculus, AP statistics, AP Literature, Anatomy and physiology
Awards/Honors: VP of National Honor Society, outstanding academic achievement awards all 3 years of high school, excellence in health education award, AP scholar with distinction
Extracurriculars : 9 years of Hindustani classical music, Volunteering at nursing home and local hospital, BU RISE internship summer 2019, Active in school SGA, choir, drama club, and Indian student association.
Essays : 9/10 I was really happy with them and worked hard.
Interview: Went awesome!! We immediately connected and started to talk. Lasted about 50 min and left feeling confident.
Feeling about getting deferred: I knew my chances were slim due to my SAT score but I was hoping my extracurriculars would carry me. Hoping for the best in regular admission and just want to tell everyone that everything happens for a reason!!!
Applied for Financial Aid?: ya
Intended Major: Neuroscience
State (if domestic applicant): MD
School Type: Public; Farming/Suburban Town
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: upper-middle class
Hooks URM, women in stem, rural public school,
recommendations:
1: Junior year AP Biology teacher. We had a great relationship and I was positive I was going to ask her for a recommendation.
2: Sophomore year AP World teacher. Known her since I was in 8th grade and honestly a second mom to me. Love her to death and I know she wrote me a great letter.
I got in to McDonough with a 31 and no sat subject tests also lol. You going?
I can’t believe I’m typing this right now:
Result: Accepted to Georgetown College, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics for a Linguistics major :)). Indicated I intended on double majoring in Justice and Peace Studies as well.
Also, I am only sort of following the format because I rarely read the big chunks of texts in the other format.
GPA:
- unweighted: 4.29 (i think it must be out of 4.3? my school is weird)
- weighted: 4.59
- for a better understanding, all A+'s and usually 2 A’s per semester throughout high school
SAT:
- first try: 1430 (ERBW: 760; Math: 670; Essay: 15)
- second try: 1360 (ERBW: 700; Math: 660; Essay: 20)
SAT II:
- French: 740 (I have no idea how, I speak fluent French lol!)
- Bio E: 710
- US History: 640 (eeek!)
Coursework:
- My school is a French-immersion school in Los Angeles thus, I followed the French government curriculum in 9th grade (received Summa Cum Laude in the end of year exams, in the top bracket of all students who take the tests all over the world)
- pre-IB classes in 10th, and AP French (5)
- 11th-12th: IB Diploma Programme: HL’s: English A Lit, History of the Americas, Biology; SL’s: French A LangLit, Math, Environmental Systems and Societies (I take all my exams in May)
Extracurriculars:
- Gender and Sexuality Alliance at school: President and Founder
- Internship with my congressman over the summer before senior year
- Co-President of Peer Mediation at school and lots of teaching experience
- Competitive dance throughout high school (approx. 12 hours per week, 45 weeks out of the year + Team Captain this final year)
- Student editor for weekly school newsletter
- Ecological volunteering in Costa Rica
- Secretary for a school initiative to donate dresses and accessories to homeless and fostered students in the LA area (with the Assistance League of Los Angeles)
Awards:
- ranked 2nd place nationally for tap dancing
- outstanding citizenship award from my school
- National Honors Society
Recommendations:
- Teacher: French teacher who I had in 9th, and 11th-12th: I believe it must have been quite good, I have a long thank you note to write! She has always been very sweet to me, and I have to work really hard in her class but I make meetings with her so she knows how hard I try.
- College Counselor: I’m sure it’s kind, but we aren’t particularly close.
Essays:
- Skills/Talents: 9/10: wrote about teaching, I believe it was a unique take on the prompt
- Extracurricular: 9/10: wrote about GSA and was able to make it vulnerable by talking about my own sexuality
- Personal: 10/10: used my common app essay, emphasized aspects of intellectual curiosity
- Why Georgetown?: 9.5/10: quite proud of this one, mentioned specific courses I look forward to taking and spoke about an LLC I intend to join
Applied for Financial Aid? Yes
State: California
School type: Private, TINY French-immersion and IB school
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income bracket: middle class
Rank: 1/28
Hooks: interesting school, IB diploma, FLL, rank
Reflection:
- Strengths: essays, community service, teacher letter of rec, really strong grades/rank, leadership positions
- Weaknesses: test scores, nothing world-changing in my extracurriculars
- Why I think I got in: strengths listed above as well as the fact that I applied to the FLL which doesn’t seem to emphasize SAT scores as much (https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/z4tgwmps28jo4hd83i1migipgjw43uuo look at the distribution of applicants and admitted candidates)
Georgetown has been my dream school since freshman year, but I was considering not applying because I thought my chances were too low. If you want to go to Georgetown, just apply! You may be surprised!
Accepted into McDonough!! Couldn’t be happier! Is there any type of accepted students facebook page/group chat?
Decision: Accepted
Objective
SAT I: N/A
ACT: 34 (32 math, 35 science, 34 reading, 36 english)
SAT II: World History - 740
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.071
Rank: 1/500 (everyone who has a 4.0 is given rank #1 at our school. I believe my weighted GPA is 16th.)
AP: Japanese (5), World History (5), English Language & Composition (5)
Senior Year Course Load: APUSH, AP Macro/Microeconomics, APES, Calculus, Expository Writing/Literature, Chinese (year 4), Band (year 4)
Major Awards: Grand Champion at the ASTA National Orchestra Festival, eCybermission 2nd place state, Solo and Ensemble blue gold, AP scholar
Subjective
Extracurriculars: concert band (president/section leader/principal chair), concert orchestra, jazz band, symphony orchestra, marching band (section leader), wind ensemble (vice president), JSA (co-president, founded the chapter at our school), environmental club (vice president, co-founder), Chinese club (historian), NHS
Job/Work Experience: I’ve been working part-time at a local office supply store since last summer.
Volunteer/Community service: I was a student helper at a middle school summer band program. Most of my community service is through my extracurricular activities.
Summer Activities: I attended the NSLC program for International Diplomacy at Georgetown this past summer.
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Short essay (9/10) - I think this was my best one. I wrote about my experience at Georgetown this past summer using a Japanese proverb.
Personal essay (7/10) - I wrote about my experience moving from Japan to the U.S. and how it made me interested in a career in foreign service. Immigration essays are overused, but I think it was effective because I tied it to my passion.
SFS essay (6/10) - I wrote about the importance of giving all children access to quality education. The solutions I presented were very ordinary.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 10/10 - I asked my AP world history teacher from my junior year. I worked my butt off in her class, so I trust that she was able to write about my work ethic and passion for the subject.
Teacher Rec #2: 10/10 - I asked one of my band directors and he knows me better than any other teacher. I dedicate a lot to the music department, so I think he was able to write about my commitment and leadership.
Counselor Rec: 8/10 - She doesn’t know me very well, but I’ve been talking to her about college since my junior year and I’d assume she knows how motivated I am as a student.
Interview: I think it went well? The interviewer told me I was a good fit for the school.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Regional Studies at SFS
State (if domestic applicant): Hawaii
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Japanese
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Middle Class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A
Reflection
Strengths: Grades, ACT, AP scores, extracurriculars, attending a summer program at Georgetown, good teacher recs.
Weaknesses: My personal essay and SFS essay could’ve been better (I did both of them last minute). My SAT II score isn’t that great and I only took one out of the recommended three. My weighted GPA is relatively low (especially because my band classes give me extra credits).
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think my app really showed my passion and character. The fact that I’m Asian and that not a lot of kids from Hawaii apply to Georgetown probably helped me a lot too.
is there a group chat for accepted students?