Stat: 28 act, 3.9 gpa, graduated high school june 2018, graduated community college with an associates degree june 2018. I was dual enrollment in a program called Running Start with my local community college. I was Stage Manager for my junior and senior year in high school, won top 20% in WA for Stage Management and qualified for Nationals. Our 2017 musical was nominated for 12 awards and won 5th Avenue’s Best Overall Production. 2018 musical was nominated for 8 awards including best overall production and won best costumes and choreography. I received the Washington State Honors Award for being in the top 10% of the Washington State 2018 graduating class. I was heavily involved in theatre all four years of high school. I participated in set building, production of short one acts, winter plays, and musicals all four years, the last two being as stage manager. I have community service in theatre and stage managing. I played goalie on my Varsity Lacrosse team junior and senior year. I was defensive mvp for my JV basketball team freshmen year. I played with my local city youth soccer club for 14 years starting at 4-18 years old. I have tried every kind of sport through elementary and middle school. I have had a job working 20 hours a week junior and senior year.
So, what are my chances of getting into Georgetown University? (I am an out of state white female from Washington State)
I also am taking a gap year this year (fall 2018- summer 2019) and applying as a freshmen for fall 2019. In my gap year, I have plans to travel around Europe, work as an au pair across seas, and travel throughout the Unites States. I intent to go into International Affairs or something similar.
With such a low ACT score, your chances aren’t great. The fact that you have almost nothing that would support an international relations major (ECs like political campaign volunteering, Model UN, etc.) is also not helpful. You’ll be competing against extremely qualified applicants. Unless your ACT score goes up dramatically, or there’s other parts of your app that you didn’t mention, I would say your chances are pretty low.
@masquerade98 I’m planning on taking the ACT again to raise my score. But as for EC’s I didn’t really think about what college I wanted to go to/what I wanted to major in until this past, thus I don’t have much relating to International Relations. I’m hoping my passion for travel and learning about new cultures will be a plus. I have taken two years of spanish my freshman and sophomore year and have retained a little bit. I want to strengthen this as well as learn other languages.
Would my leadership positions be a plus on the app? I know this is a reach school.
Georgetown for international studies (whether SFS or a&S for IR) will be an extreme reach for you. I agree with above poster, your test scores are lower than their 25% threshold, and you don’t say whether you have taken the two required SAT subject tests yet. Your reply to the prior poster raises another huge red flag—you only took two years of foreign language in high school, and declining to take any in junior and senior years will be interpreted as a lack of interest. Most elite colleges want more than just two years, and Georgetown for international will definitely hold this against you. Your competition will be full of kids with four years in a single language and many with two languages they have studied.
There is nothing wrong with your ECs, it is just that you have absolutely nothing that indicates an interest in international studies, and combined with your lack of foreign language study, this is a big problem. Your ECs would serve you well in any other college application, but not for these purposes.
If you use your gap year to address these deficiencies, it could go a long way. Some international travel could be good, but starting some language study (even just Rosetta Stone Spanish on your own) is imperative.