SFS Chances

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgetown University
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<p>Location and type of school: top private school in Mississippi
Grade: Junior (as such, I have projected in my list of EC's that I will continue with my current activities)
Ethnicity: Asian-American (Indian)
GPA: 3.95 UW (everyone seems to weight differently; I will have taken 14 AP's upon graduation)
Rank: School does not rank, but I know that I am in the top 10%.
SAT: 2360 (800 CR, 760 M, 800 W)</p>

<p>Extra-curricular activities:</p>

<p>Taekwondo (9,10,11,12) - World champion in a field of ~1000 in 2007 (~8 hours/week)</p>

<p>Forgotten Global Crises Club (11,12) - president (~15 hours/week)
- I write a ten page weekly politics update for the school
- Started a new library at my school that is home to volumes pertaining to political science, international relations, and economics.
- Raise international awareness through speakers and videos</p>

<p>Student Government (10, 11, 12) - prefect of the Campus Life Committee (~2 hours/week)</p>

<p>Cross Country (9, 10, 11, 12) - Captain (~10 hours/week)</p>

<p>Speech and Debate (9, 10, 11, 12) - Public Forum Debate Team Captain & Numerous local and nat'l circuit awards (~15 hours/week)</p>

<p>Quiz Bowl (10, 11, 12) - (~2 hours/week)</p>

<p>I will have logged over 200 hours of community service upon graduation.</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<ul>
<li><p>Recipient of a $2000 global studies travel grant to work in Peru for one month.</p></li>
<li><p>National Merit Finalist (projected)</p></li>
<li><p>National Honor Society</p></li>
</ul>

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<p>your’e in, buddy. conrgrats</p>

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<p>Thanks for that, pookie. Anyone else? How do you all think SFS stacks up against Penn CAS, Stanford, and JHU?</p>

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<p>I think you stand pretty good shot at an acceptance, there really isn’t a weak spot. But schools at Georgetown’s level are weird about admissions, and I’ve seen some tippity-top students get rejected, but, that said, I think you have a fantastic shot!</p>

<p>SFS is really first in its class, there is arguably no IR program on the planet that can match SFS in quality, reputation, and prestige. Georgetown is already a prestigious school on its own, but SFS is the only program that blows all others out of the water. I’ve even heard about Harvard acceptees choosing to attend SFS instead. </p>

<p>The only school on that list that would give you a similar experience as SFS would be JHU, which has SAIS, or School of Advanced International Studies, which is also located in DC and is also pretty well-known, the rest of those colleges just have a one-size-fits-all major within their regular college.</p>

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<p>simpson98:</p>

<p>Thank you for your constructive comments. You wrote, “SFS is really first in its class, there is arguably no IR program on the planet that can match SFS in quality, reputation, and prestige. Georgetown is already a prestigious school on its own, but SFS is the only program that blows all others out of the water. I’ve even heard about Harvard acceptees choosing to attend SFS instead.” </p>

<p>Foreign Policy Magazine ranked Harvard higher than Georgetown, but I think good internships outweigh the quality of education when the difference is so miniscule. How many SFS students receive internships in the D.C. area?</p>

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<p>Yeah, I know the rankings you mentioned, and they’re a little misleading, to say the least. For instance, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia don’t even have undergraduate IR programs. What FP magazine did was survey graduate professors, and asked them who they thought had the best program, so the top ivies kind of rode on their overall prestige to place highly. JHU and Tufts, two awesome IR schools, also kind of got shafted in those rankings as a result.</p>

<p>Anyway, that being , I really don’t know any statistics about the percentage of SFS kids who get internships. I know most of them study abroad junior year, like 60-70%, but I don’t know about internships.</p>

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<p>Just to clarify, SAIS at Johns Hopkins and the Fletcher School at Tufts are graduate schools only. You can major in IR at JHU and Tufts, but they do not have stand-alone IR undergraduate schools the way Georgetown, GW, and American do.</p>