<p>Is it okay if you don't have many extra curriculars, but have a great deal of community service for projects around the world and if your devote your time mainly to that. On the application, my friend put that her number 1 activity in order of importance was her volunteer work and she included that as part of her resume. Her other strengths are her knowledge of over a handful of languages, her travel across the world, great recommendations, working as a page. Does that kinda counteract her few extracurriculars? Oh by the way she said her interview went well... it went from an interview to a conversation about politics, economics, religion and literature. I don't know too much though because she didn't give me total details. I think she has a little more than a 50% chance... like 55-60%. What do you think?</p>
<p>"Your friend"? ;) haha.</p>
<p>It is often better to have a cause (or a few) that you are very dedicated to rather than a ton of random ones that you were mildly involved in. This is true for any college, not just Georgetown SFS.</p>
<p>I agree w/tlesc01. It sounds to me like you have it made, just the kind of stuff a place like GU would want. But what is your GPA and SAT's like? You can have passion but not be able to read, that could be a problem!</p>
<p>My friend's SATs are 1910
her gpa unweighted is 3.7 and weighted 4.6</p>
<p>hey waveswatcher are you a student at gu and sfs?</p>
<p>she's also academically inclined,
finished her ib diploma a year early</p>
<p>will have taken 45 credit hours of college credit in addition by to ib by the time she finished high school</p>
<p>No, I'm just another crazed applicant waiting to find out on 12/15 if I'm in or not.</p>
<p>Community service is an extracurricular activity and the one that most frequently appears on georgetown admitted student applications. Working on projects around the world is exactly what they are looking for in that section.</p>
<p>I know I'm partially responsible for fanning the flames here, but you guys should relax. As long as you do something outside of school, whether it's a job, a club, or a sports team, you're fine. Even if you don't, if you have a good reason, then fine. There's plenty of people with no clubs, no job, etc because they need to take care of their sick brother/parent/etc for several years. The main thing is your grades and test scores and recommendations and essay.</p>
<p>Uhm. It's kind of late to respond to this thread, but I don't see how one can finish an IB diploma early, HarvardBound. HLs require two years of study to complete. I clearly don't know the protocol at your school, but it seems impossible to finish, say the required hours of HL science labs in one, unless a teacher is like...working double shifts or something. And you can't start IB until 10th grade....Could you clarify? I'm confused and curious now.</p>
<p>Yeah no prob. I started my IB classes in 10th. So I had two years of the courses... 10th and 11th (for HL).</p>