Hello everyone, please chance me for the following schools. Georgetown is my number one school. I already know of two people from my city that are going to Georgetown next year, but I do not know if that will make a difference. Neither of them are going to the School of Foreign Service.
I live in North Carolina so I am out-of-state for all of the public schools I am applying to.
Georgetown Walsh School of Foreign Service (stretch)
University of Virginia
College of William and Mary
George Washington University
Washington and Lee
Tulane
Johns Hopkins (far stretch)
University of Georgia
Intended Major: International Politics (Georgetown) or International Politics (every other school)
Class rank: 24/457
Unweighted GPA: 3.91
Weighted GPA: 4.91.
SAT: 1410
ACT: 28 (super score of 30)
AP Classes
Sophomore Year - Psychology
Junior Year - US Government (0.5 credit), Comparative Government (0.5 credit), Environmental Science, US History, English
Language and Composition
Senior Year - Chinese, Microeconomics (0.5 credit), Macroeconomics (0.5 credit), European History, Calculus AB, Computer
Science A, English Literature and Composition
Leadership
-Elected President of National Honor Society (over 150 members)
-Co-President of the Habitat for Humanity Club
-Co-President of the Chinese Club
-Historian of my City Council’s youth council which consists of representatives from each school
-Committee Chair in my state’s Youth and Government
-Coached a YMCA youth basketball team
-I organized a dodgeball tournament for Habitat for Humanity where we raised over $1,100. Freshman year I organized a Student vs Faculty basketball game for the World Wildlife Fund and we raised about $800.
Other Activities
-Started a website where high school and college students representing all political beliefs can apply to write articles. (I did not include this in the only applications that I have submitted, Georgetown and UVA, because it was not fully up and running when I applied. I plan to include it in future applications).
-Cross country in the fall, track in the spring since sophomore year
-Golf and soccer team during freshman year
Work Experience
-Summer intern (unpaid) at my US Senator’s local office and my US Congressperson’s local office
-1-week program with my governor’s office that involved office work and learning about state government
-Made around $1000 from creating an online political apparel website during the presidential election
-Worked at a fast food restaurant for 4 months
Summer Programs
-went to Tanzania for 3 weeks in the past summer to help work on a school then climb Mount Kilimanjaro
-went to Peru two summers ago for 2 weeks to do some general volunteer work and hike to Macchu Pichu
Awards
-Received an award that recognizes a young person for their philanthropy after being nominated by someone at Habitat.
-National Honor Society
-Chinese Honor Society
I would say that my essays are very good and I know one of my two recommendations is great, but I am worried that the second one might be kind of generic. I have not read them.
As of now, I think my test scores are weighing down my admission chances, so I am hoping my extracurriculars, essays, and interview will allow me to compete with other applicants.
Please be honest about my admission chances to all schools on my list.
Thanks!