hows about my EA chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgetown University
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<p>Georgetown is one of my top choices and I make that abundantly clear in my application</p>

<p>White female from Oregon, born in NY, pretty good public school</p>

<p>GPA 3.98 (only one B in first semester chemistry), school doesn't weight, top 3% of class
ACT 32 (35R 31M 30E 30S 32Com E/W, 12 essay) (definitely using ACT)
SAT II's Spanish (730) French (680), took math level I, probably in the low 700's</p>

<p>Will have taken 10 out of 13 offered AP courses, both Honors courses
Also 5 college-level classes through Portland State University
(Spanish 201-202-203, French 201-202-203, German 201-202-203, Writing 21, World Literature)</p>

<p>EC's:
Theater (4 yrs)
Cello (3 yrs, first cellist in orchestra)
Choir (3 yrs)
We The People competition (Constitution Team) (unit six!)
High-Five Challenge (basically the Oregon version of Teen Jeopardy)
NHS (both allowed years)
MUN
Rec league soccer (four years)
Lots of volunteer work
One main summer job at a photography studio</p>

<p>Three school awards for outstanding achievement in Foreign Language and Art History.
-I'll probably have a good counselor recommendation and 2-3 excellent teacher ones
-My essay will quite strong (about my experience in a Waldorf school 1-8th grade, why I'm attracted to languages)</p>

<p>-Two month-long exchanges in Mexico that I paid for myself, one summer spent working in Europe
-Speak Spanish and French fluently (contrary to SAT II scores), German and Arabic comfortably----- also, I got here through my own study and pursuit</p>

<p>Hook: I was selected as one of twelve US students to receive a full State Department scholarship to spend this summer in Egypt studying Arabic.</p>

<p>I know I don't have perfect test scores (far from) and amazing EC's, minority status, etc. but my real passion is for languages and cultures; probably a linguistics major</p>

<p>Any advance guidance is appreciated, sending my app out this week! Thanks</p>

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<p>I would say your chances are decent- your ec's and linguistics stuff will help. Your test scores are high enough for georgetown. The essays and recs will be important. I am assuming you're applying to the college or SFS?</p>

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<p>It's going to be hard to say you speak Spanish and French fluently with those SAT II scores. You could say you speak both well, but they are going to question whether you are fluent or not with a 680 in French. It will still look very impressive, plus you are learning German so, I wouldn't go so far to say you are fluent unless you are SURE. Otherwise, I'd say you have a very good chance at SFS or linguistics. The only thing that could hurt would be the test scores, but you have so much else going for you.</p>