I am a junior who lives in Maine. My top choice right now is Georgetown and that is kind’ve the standard I am looking to hit. I was curious if anyone had some advice or quick things they notice about my extracurriculars that could help me improve them. Below I’ve given the list of things which I plan to have by application time of next year. Thanks!
Founder, President of Debate Team (11th-12th) (now competing in state tournaments)
Co-President of Latin Club (10th-12th) (3 years Maine Junior Classical League Academic Champions)
Founding Member of High School Writing Center (12th)
National Honor Society (11th-12th)
Varsity Tennis (9th-12th) (2016 & 2017 Maine Class B State Champions, 2018 Maine Class A State Finalists) (2016 & 2017 Class B #1 Doubles Team in Maine)
Special Olympics Tennis Volunteer & Organizer (9th-12th) (30+ Hours)
People to People Leadership Ambassador Program (Summer of 9th)
Georgetown University Law Institute (Summer of 12th)
Month-long Internship at Law Firm (Summer of 12th)
AP Research — Senior-Year Research Project on something to do with the law (12th)
This is really just a list of things, you need to focus on just 3 or 4 where you made the biggest impact or achieved the most, like tennis, special olympics, maybe latin and debate team.
Your ECs look fine. IMO there is absolutely no issue with being well-rounded and having ECs that include sports, community service, and academic based clubs.
you have fine ECs - the trick is to connect them to the offerings at each college you apply to. Find clubs and activities at each college and show how your ECs will make you a better fit for the college.
Theloniusmonk – I have focused pretty hard core on Tennis, Latin Club, Law (I want to be a lawyer), and especially Debate. Does having the other things on the list distract or take away in your opinion? Should I go even further in depth with some of these?
Stemmm – what do you mean? How would I demonstrate that I have looked into that kind of stuff to colleges? The essay seems like it would be a bad spot for that.
Intparent – my stats would be 3.91 UW GPA and not sure what weighted is (probably very good, I have 7 APs and tons of honors), 1470 SAT, and my APs would be AP Lang, AP Seminar, APUSH, AP Euro, AP Lit, AP Research, and APES… any other academic stats I’m forgetting? I haven’t done subject tests yet but I plan to do SAT II Latin, SAT II US History, and SAT II Math Level II – I will study very hard for these.
Ok now that you put your stats in, you’re a very good applicant, you just list NHS without saying if you did anything with them or how it impacted you, same with PLP. Pre-law at Georgetown would mean govt or poly sci or IR, which are their most competitive majors, so as someone said, tie the most impactful ECs together and you’ll be in good shape. Good luck!