<p>@sportgirl2k
I was really confident too! Not that many kids from my school applied and Georgetown was my dream school. I thought I had a great shot but no I have zero confidence in myself. :(</p>
<p>yeahhhhhhhhh i was pretty confident that I would get in, but…I guess it wasn’t meant to happen. </p>
<p>the CT reader didn’t even come to our high school or anything for an info session, though I emailed her a few times to ask some questions. heck, i was the only one applying EA from my school anyways. guess they just really don’t like us.</p>
<p>well i guess I dont have to go into massive debt now, haha.</p>
<p>**ACCEPTED @ Georgetown > McDonough: **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 690, 630, 610
[</em>] SAT Math: 710, 700, 690
[<em>] SAT Writing: 740, 660, 690
[</em>] SAT Total: 1300 to 1400 / 1600
[<em>] SAT II: Math2=700, Chem=760, US History=740
[</em>] ACT: 31 (35 English, 31 Reading, 33 Math, 25 Science, 10 writing)
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: BC Calc = 5, Chem = 5, APUSH=5
[</em>] GPA weighted: 4.392
[<em>] GPA unweighted: ~3.95
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: top 10 of 200 (top 5%)</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Described how serial entrepreneurship changed my life; talked about biz experience and how it is my passion in life
[</em>] Teacher Recs: never read, but probably excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: never read, but probably excellent
[</em>] Hook (if any): none?</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Ohio, USA
[</em>] School Type: Private (Catholic)
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Legacy : No
[</em>] Recruited : No
[li] Important ECs: started 3 business, Business/Finance Club (President), Newspaper (Editor), Model UN (slew of awards)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: I am a serial entrepreneur (first business when I was 12, #2+3 when I was 16). I have several state-wide investing awards. I had a short but really good interview - the guy said I had “absolutely nothing to worry about” when I was leaving.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: My EC’s and biz experience saved my butt - my grades are stellar but test scores are pretty bad for the EA pool. </p>
<p>BEST OF LUCK TO ALL OTHER AWAITING DECISIONS OR DEFERRED!</p>
<p>Decision ACCEPTED
School applied to SFS</p>
<p>Stats:
- SAT Verbal: —
- SAT Math: —
- SAT Writing: —
- SAT Total: —
- ACT: 34
- SAT II: 670 Chem, 750 Math II, 710 US History
- AP/IB taken/scores: Macro (4), Calc AB (5), Gov (4), Euro (5), Chem (3); currently taking Stats, Lit, Art, Physics, Comp, Psych
- GPA weighted: 4.25
- GPA unweighted: 4.00
- Rank or % estimate: 1/600</p>
<p>Subjective:
- Essays: Clever use of historical metaphors? SFS essay about drugs in Afghanistan
- Teacher Recs: It was very nice!
- Counselor Rec: I cried when I read it.
- Hook (if any):</p>
<p>Location/Person:
- State or Country: MN
- School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: White
- Gender: Female
- Legacy Yes/No: No
- Recruited Yes/No: No
- Important ECs: Volunteering, Mock Trial, languages</p>
<p>YAYYAYAYAYAY</p>
<p>We both wrote about Afghanistan for our SFS essay! Ha. And congrats!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted
School applied to: Mcdonough School of Business</p>
<p>Stats:
- SAT Verbal: 680</p>
<ul>
<li><p>SAT Math: 700</p></li>
<li><p>SAT Writing: 690</p></li>
<li><p>SAT Total: 2030</p></li>
<li><p>SAT II:
Did not submit</p></li>
<li><p>GPA unweighted: 3.86</p></li>
<li><p>Rank or % estimate: Does not rank</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:
- Essays: Excellent
- Teacher Recs: Excellent
- Counselor Rec: Excellent
- Hook (if any): Leadership</p>
<p>Location/Person:
- State or Country: NJ
- School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: African-Indian
- Gender: Male
- Legacy: No
- Recruited: No
- Important ECs: FBLA and Boy Scouts</p>
<p>Other Factors: I intern at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney</p>
<p>Accepted to the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service!
I can’t copy/paste for some reason from my BB but these are the basics.
760 CR / 780 M
3.83/5.12
Top 1%
By graduation: 12 APs, full IB (6), 7 local university classes
SATIIs: 770/770/640
Great essays. SFS one about narcotrafficking in Turkey by PKK
Very strong extracurrics with national and international awards in debate and environmental service
Recs were very strong as well
White, from FL
No Legacy No sports
:)</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED
School applied to: Georgetown College</p>
<p>Stats:
- SAT Verbal: –
- SAT Math: –
- SAT Writing: –
- SAT Total: –
- SAT II: 660 Latin, 690 US History, 730 Lit
- ACT: 32
- AP/IB taken/scores: Art History (5), US History (5), Environmental Science (5)
- GPA weighted: 99.4
- GPA unweighted: 95ish
- Rank or % estimate: 3%</p>
<p>Subjective:
- Essays: Weird. When describing my personality, I compared myself to fictional characters (Hermione & Luna from Harry Potter, and Jim from The Office). About an EC, I wrote about tennis and how I had no natural talent for the sport and the only reason why I made Varsity was because of my determination and hard work ethic. In terms of mechanics, I think they were written poorly but I did write sincerely, informally, and with a lot of candor.<br>
- Teacher Recs: didn’t see them
- Counselor Rec: didn’t see them
- Hook (if any): Minority (African American)</p>
<p>Location/Person:
- State or Country: IL
- School Type: private, jesuit
- Ethnicity: African American
- Gender: Female
- Legacy Yes/No: NO
- Recruited Yes/No: NO
- Important ECs: Yearbook Editor, VP of Art Club, Lots of Service Hours (mentor for blind, ESL teacher, Summer service in Appalachia, etc), Latin Team, Varsity Tennis, NHS, co-founded a cycling club</p>
<p>Other Factors: Good interview, have won a lot of awards for latin
Main Weakness: No job experience and if they looked at senior grades, my AP Calc AB grades are from steller (barely passing…)</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred from SFS</p>
<p>Gender: female
Ethnicity: hispanic
High school: private. very competitive 15% to ivies alone.
i take the hardest possible track offered. around top 10%</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: (school doesn’t do these, self-calculated) 3.76
CR: 720
Math: 720
SAT II Lit: 720
SAT II Math I: 650
SAT II Span: 720</p>
<p>Awards & Extracurrics
Student Council; Vice-President
Model UN; President
Debate; President
Varsity Field Hockey; Captain, MVP, All-League 1st Team</p>
<p>Essays: well my teacher who worked at UChicago admissions said they were great and would definitely boost my applications. interpret that as you’d like 
Recs: Counselor Rec = Fantastic, Teacher Recs = 1 Fantastic, 1 Very good</p>
<p>well I cannot say that I was expecting to get in but deferral isn’t very fun. the decisions are thus far puzzling to me - but what do i know? i wish they would reject and not just defer.</p>
<p>a hugeeeee congrats to all who were accepted :)</p>
<p>Fill out the following and post:</p>
<p>Decision ACCEPTED!!!
School applied to Walsh SFS</p>
<p>Stats:
- SAT Verbal: 740
- SAT Math: 690
- SAT Writing: 700
- SAT Total: 2130
- SAT II: 790 US Hist, 800 Spanish, 670 Math 2
- ACT: 31
- AP/IB taken/scores: 5 - Spanish Lang, US Hist; 4 - English Lang, World Hist, Euro Hist
- GPA weighted: 4.47
- GPA unweighted: 3.75
- Rank or % estimate: 9/79</p>
<p>Subjective:
- Essays: Ok prob not excellent, wrote on immigration for SFS essay
- Teacher Recs: Probably pretty good from teacher/coach
- Counselor Rec: Good I think
- Hook (if any): None really</p>
<p>Location/Person:
- State or Country: Texas
- School Type: Public - Small, top 100 magnet school
- Ethnicity: Hispanic - Mexican
- Gender: Male
- Legacy Yes/No: No
- Recruited Yes/No: No
- Important ECs: look at other posts if interested</p>
<p>Other Factors: I am really excited and will probably be enrolling unless I can’t afford it. Good luck to those deferred.</p>
<p>Decision: DEFERRED
School applied to: Georgetown College</p>
<p>Stats:
- SAT Verbal: 800
- SAT Math: 760
- SAT Writing: 800
- SAT Total: 2360
- SAT II: Math IIC 760, BioM 790, Lit 750, Chem 750
- ACT: N/A
- AP/IB taken/scores: Calc AB 5, English Language 5, Chem 4, Bio 5, APUSH 5
- GPA weighted: 3.92
- GPA unweighted: 3.70
- Rank or % estimate: Top 10%</p>
<p>Subjective:
- Essays: They should be pretty good! D:
- Teacher Recs: One excellent, the other a little generic.
- Counselor Rec: Great!
- Hook (if any): None</p>
<p>Location/Person:
- State or Country: CA
- School Type: Competitive Public
- Ethnicity: Chinese
- Gender: Male
- Legacy Yes/No: No
- Recruited Yes/No: No
- Important ECs: Speech and Debate Congress State Champion (CA), Mock Trial, etc</p>
<p>Other Factors: D: Super sad! But congratulations to everyone who got in and I know you’ll all do great. :)</p>
<p>Just a little tip for you: if you are african american or HIspanic that IS as hook. That’s what hook means.</p>
<p>Decision Accepted
School applied to SFS</p>
<p>Stats:
- SAT Verbal:800
- SAT Math:800
- SAT Writing:780
- SAT Total: 2380
- SAT II: 800-French, 790-USH, 790-Math II
- ACT: N/A
- AP/IB taken/scores: N/A
- GPA weighted: Dont know
- GPA unweighted: 4.0
- Rank or % estimate: Top 5%</p>
<p>Subjective:
- Essays: Personal was unique, SFS was so-so
- Teacher Recs: Good/great
- Counselor Rec: Good
- Hook (if any): None</p>
<p>Location/Person:
- State or Country: WA
- School Type: Independent
- Ethnicity: White
- Gender: M
- Legacy Yes/No: No
- Recruited Yes/No: No
- Important ECs: Student Body, Quiz Bowl, Volunteer at Camp for a month </p>
<p>Other Factors: None</p>
<p>Status: Accepted to Georgetown College</p>
<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White
High School: Public, fairly standard. Sends about one or two kids to ivies each year and plenty of kids to schools like U of Chicago, Northwestern, Wash U, etc.
Location: Illinois
Recruited: no
Legacy: no</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: Something like 5.54
Weighted: 5.0
I sent my ACT scores, but my SAT for reference -
Reading: 730
Math: 750
Writing: 800
SAT II -
Math II: 750
Lit: 750
US History: 780</p>
<p>ACT:
English: 35
Math: 35
Reading: 36
Science: 34
Composite: 35</p>
<p>EC’s and Awards:
Speech Team Captain, 6th in state in my event
Show Choir, Vocal Captain
Choir for four years, Illinois All-State Honors Choir 2009
Theatre, I’ve done 6 or so shows at my school
Math team
Writing Tutor
Freshman Mentor
National Merit Semi-Finalist, Finalist status not yet determined
Dartmouth Book Award
AP Scholar with Honor</p>
<p>AP Scores -
Human Geo: 4
AP World: 5
AP US: 5
AP Lit: 5</p>
<p>Interview: Went alright, although it was hard to tell.</p>
<p>Recs: 1 teacher rec, 1 counselor rec, no supplemental recs. I have no idea what either of those looked like, but my counselor and I get along well and the teacher who recommended me was my US teacher, and I really loved and was challenged by that class.</p>
<p>Essays: My main one was about milking a cow in Normandy. Sounds ridiculous, but it was a cool experience and turned into a pretty decent essay. Activities essay was about speech and also turned out well.</p>
<p>Congrats to all who were accepted. To all who were deferred, I’m very sorry. Nobody wants to experience that, but best of luck to you in regular decision.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred
School applied to: Georgetown College</p>
<p>Stats:
- SAT Verbal: 710
- SAT Math:750
- SAT Writing:710
- SAT Total:1460, 2170
- SAT II: Chem-780, US-770, Math-730
- ACT: 34
- AP/IB taken/scores: AP Euro-5, AP US-5, AP English Language-5, AP Chemistry-5
- GPA weighted: not sure… about a 4.4
- GPA unweighted: 4.0
- Rank or % estimate: 5/304</p>
<p>Subjective:
- Essays: ok…
- Teacher Recs: awesome
- Counselor Rec: not sure…
- Hook (if any): I’m from Alabama. And I speak Chinese…</p>
<p>Location/Person:
- State or Country: Alabama
- School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: White
- Gender:Female
- Legacy Yes/No: No
- Recruited Yes/No: No</p>
<p>I just hope Chicago doesn’t reject me too…</p>
<p>^I’m getting Chicago decisions too! So scared!</p>
<p>Here we go! . . .</p>
<p>ACCEPTED, FLL</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 800
[</em>] SAT Math: 700
[<em>] SAT Writing: 800
[</em>] SAT Total: 2300
[<em>] SAT II: 770/760/760/690/670/640
[</em>] ACT: 30, not submitted
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: 5,5,5,4,4,4 One less 5 if subscores don’t count, but not submitted
[</em>] GPA weighted: ???
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.83/4.00
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: 13/324 top 5%</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: My main essay was really good, very personal. My why major/why G’town essay was good on the part about my major but sucked on the part about G’town because it was super last minute and tacked onto my British personal statement. And there was a typo! “To” for “too.”
[</em>] Teacher Recs: From my French teacher. She’s called me her “treasure,” so, good I guess
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Probably quite good
[</em>] Hook (if any): URM!</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Ohio
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Black/AA
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No:No
[li] Important ECs: Ballet, Quiz Team, Community Service, Tutoring stuff (2nd graders, 7th graders, sort of well-known internship)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Looking at some of the <em>so</em> well-qualified people who were deferred, I really don’t know why I was accepted, but I’m sure you guys will end up somewhere great.</p>
<p>^^^
Don’t be modest millincad, there may be qualified people who were deferred, but you’re MORE than qualified to begin with, then you get the aa boost.</p>
<p>before I was super bitter about not getting in, and I still am ridiculously bummed out, but congratulations to everyone who did… it must be an amazing feeling. :)</p>
<p>Decision: DEFERRED
School applied to: college</p>
<p>Stats:
- SAT Verbal: 730
- SAT Math: 770
- SAT II: 740/740/730
- AP/IB taken/scores: 5/5/5/4 (and im taking 4 this year)
- GPA: 96.88
- Rank or % estimate: school doesnt rank</p>
<p>Subjective:
- Essays: good (i mean… its pretty subjective)
- Teacher Recs: my teacher said i was top 1% of students hes ever had
- Counselor Rec:
- Hook (if any): NOPE, im a white female from new york… i moved from england when i was 8 but thats hardly diversity</p>
<p>Location/Person:
- State or Country: NY
- School Type: competitive public
- Ethnicity: white
- Gender: female
- Legacy Yes/No:
- Recruited Yes/No: no
- Important ECs: no</p>
<p>Other Factors: im bummmmmmmed… i thought i had somewhat of a shot :/</p>
<p>Accepted, School of Foreign Service</p>
<p>34 ACT, 11 essay
800/700/700
3/475 rank; top 1%
White, Female, Pennsylvania, non-Catholic
wrote about environmental sustainability, microloans, debt for nature swaps, its relation to poverty; personal one about growing up in Ukraine
fluent in Russian
President of 3 clubs including MUN
a lot of volunteer hours at zoo (I really tried to go with a theme of environment)
great counselor/teacher rec</p>
<p>woo!</p>