Georgetown (& Others) Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a incoming senior at a public school in Southern Indiana of about 1,000 students. It's a small Midwestern town of 7,000 people, (not a lot of diversity) and the local economy is based on an Alcoa plant and coal mining. Not a lot of challenging classes are offered, but I take the hard ones that I can. My goal is an International Relations major at Georgetown (SFS) or another "big name" school such as Tufts, Notre Dame, Brown, George Washington, Johns Hopkins, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, etc... Here's my stats, if someone could please give me a rough estimate of my chances at such schools, it would be much appreciated.</p>

<p>*GPA: 4.0 on a 4.0 scale (my school does not weigh grades)
*Class Rank: 1st of about 200
*SATs: Verbal - 660 Math - 600 (I am taking the new one in a couple weeks, I expect to do better than these scores.) I'm taking the SAT II in World History, U.S. History, and Literature in the Fall.
*I have taken Junior AP English Language class and I will get the scores in July (I think I at least got a 3) I will take Senior AP Eng. Lit next year.
*NO AP Social Studies classes are offered at my school, but I do take "advanced" Social Studies classes
*Although "A modern foreign language background is expected" at these schools, I have taken 3 years of Latin. However, I took a non-credit night class in French at a local university and am continuing my studies, does this help/hurt?
*Member of several clubs: 10 yr 4H member, Key Club, Student Council, Junior Classical League, National Honor Society, Youth Group at Catholic Church. I have done community service with each of these clubs.
*Athlete: Football 3 yrs, Baseball all 4 yrs.
*HOBY Ambassador, returning as a Junior Counselor
*Selected from my school to attend a foreign policy seminar hosted by Senator Richard Lugar
*Hoosier Boys State Delegate (Takes place in a few weeks, aiming to become elected to an office)
*No real minority status (white male); both parents are public school teachers
*My Grandfather Attended the School of Foreign Service in the '50s, but left to join the Army for the Korean War, if that's worth anything.</p>

<p>I think that's it, I'll update as needed. I'll try and answer any questions that are asked. Thank you very much for reading this and any help is much appreciated. Thanks again.</p>

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<p>You definitely need to raise your SATs if at all possible. You should aim for schools where your SAT at least matches the mean SAT of the students admitted to the school, which is mostly likely a little higher than the mean SAT of the students that actually decide to matriculate.</p>

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<p>*SATs: Verbal - 660 Math - 600 </p>

<p>An international studies major - most elite schools look for high verbal scores, and I'd say that is really necessary if you're looking at a intl studies major. You need language proficiency, not only in foreign language, but in English (not to say you aren't proficient, I just mean that its important to be really good with the language). You really need to up the verbal score here, even more so than the math.</p>