<p>I'm really worried--SFS at GU is pretty much my dream but I'm worried I don't have the credentials--please tell me what you think</p>
<p>I'm a white female in Georgia
I'm in the International Baccalaureate Program at one of the top IB high schools in the nation
Several people from my school are also applying</p>
<p>Summer of 2005--Studied abroad in France for 3 weeks
Summer 2006--spent summer in New Orleans helping rebuild
I tutor for French
Got 5th place state-wide in Le Grand Concours french competition
2006 Georgia Certificate of Merit winner
Nominated state-wide twice for Governor's Honors Program, but didn't go.</p>
<p>SAT:
cr: 740
math: 660
writing: 700
(I just retook it though)
SAT II:
French: 720
Biology: 710
Lit: 680</p>
<p>Tell me what you think, it's much appreciated!</p>
<p>I'm just worried because so many people I know are applying, and I'm only 17th, and I don't have any leadership positions except for tennis and secretary of FHS...There is nothing that stands out on my application!</p>
<p>2 people in the IB program are applying to other schools, 4 other people in IB are applying to sfs.
and i just realized i forgot to put captain down for my high school tennis team</p>
<p>Your Math score is a bit low for Georgetown, however, what's really most important for the SFS is having a compelling reason why you specifically have a passion for the general study of international affairs. GPA, SAT and the like are just a pre-requisite to get through the first gate. For SFS admissions, they are dealing with a class of 330, so it really all boils down to personal characteristics, qualities, and having a compelling reason for why you would be an asset to the SFS. I'm not sure if that helps at all, but again stats are really just step one for the SFS particularly.</p>
<p>i think i have better creds than the other applicants to sfs, but there is one girl that has better creds, but she is applying to a diff program
and thanks, copley, it does help, and i hope the interview is important, because GU is really really my dream school and I'm pretty passionate about it!!</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 equivalent (5.84 of a 5.9 weighted)
SATs: 2250 (CR 800, M 700, W 750)
SAT IIs: Math II 790, Lit 790, US His 780
Class Rank: 2/350</p>
<p>EC's
-Captain of Academic Decathalon (1st Place Speech, Interview, various other awards in the state)
-Captain of Debate (currently ranked 1st place)
-Tennis for 3 years (state champion JV Team)
-Managing Editor of Newspaper (Winner of Columbia Press Awards)
-Governor's School for International Studies
-NHS
-World Language NHS
-Class Officer
-Student Ambassador</p>
<p>Comm Service:
-CCD Teacher & Counselor for Mentally Handicapped Children at local YMCA</p>
<p>Awards:</p>
<p>-1st Place St. Peter's Oratorical Contest (Biggest Oratorical Contest on the East Coast)...won $10,000 and donated half to the Pat Tillman Foundation
-1st Place Speech in the State for Academic Decathalon
-Speaker of the House at CYLC
-Many other smaller oratorical/speechwriting awards</p>
<h2>-1st Place Voices of Democracy</h2>
<p>Essays: Some of the best I've written</p>
<p>Rec's:
-One from a solid alumni
-One from Pat Tillman's brother (Pat Tillman was the football player who died in Afghanistan)
-Teacher and Couns Recs are solid</p>
<p>Jake, make your thread, but don't hijack other peoples. We see your chances one, you don't have to put it in everyone elses. Your new, so its ok, but just don't do it anymore.</p>
<p>AudraLaudarque...hey, I was worrying about you! You definately got the stats over me! Man, why do smart people have to live in Georgia of all places?
Good luck!</p>
<p>Are you kidding? Savannah IS rural. I am from Los Angeles, population 10,000,000. Savannah has 120,000. It's rural. Thanks for the complement, but your GPA is WAY higher. And so are your SAT IIs. Seriously. And you are in the top 4%. And you go to an IB school, in "one of the top high schools in the nation". Which school, btw? We row against a lot of Atl schools, so I have heard of many of the more prestigious ones.</p>
<p>lol, I go to Campbell HS, but we don't have a rowing team--except for the IB Program, we are DIRT poor. I've never been to Savannah before, but in case you loved it and thought it was big, I didn't want to offend--big jump from LA!
(I've heard that it's a gorgeous city tho...)
I still think you have better chances, but I just really really REALLY hope we both make it!
20 days and I really don't want that deferral letter!</p>
<p>neither do I- but what's making me nervous is that it could come up to five days before December 15, during exam time- and that would be killer. Otherwise, it could come while I am on vacation (I leave on the fifteenth!), and if that happens, I am going to have a friend come over everyday and check to see if the letter (hopefully an acceptance!) has arrived. I hope we both make it, too!</p>
<p>I have got to get off this board. It will seriously be the death of me. It stresses me out WAY too much.</p>
<p>Seriously, I know how you feel! I check this site WAYYYY too often, and it's crazy depressing seeing everyone's stats be higher than mine!
Not to mention I get my SAT scores in 2 days
Dec. 15th is a week before finals for me, but I have all my stupid IB internal assessments due around then...UGH, I can't wait for winter break (and an letter with good news in it).
My school counselor pretty much told me that I would be deferred though, so my hopes aren't up.</p>
<p>ugh yeah my counselor basically said that it was a reach for me...but the good news is that my second choice is a "relative safety" (her words, not mine) and I absolutely LOVE that school, too, although I still love Gtown more. How about we say that the pros and cons cancel out and that we are equal candidates and that Gtown would be lucky to have either one of us?</p>