Hello, I am a junior planning to apply to Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service next year. What are my chances of getting in given the information provided below?
After this year I will have taken 5 AP classes and I have registered for 6 APs next year. These are the APs I will have taken by the time I graduate: psychology, environmental science, us history, language and composition, government and politics (half credit), comparative government (half credit), microeconomics (half credit), macroeconomics (half credit), european history, human geography, calculus ab, computer science, and literature. I will also be taking Mandarin Chinese 4 next year and have been taking Chinese for all of high school, which is an honors class.
Weighted GPA of 4.67 out of 5.0 (which does not include my grades from this year yet)
Unweighted GPA of about 3.8 (which also does not include my grades from this year).
Class rank: top 6%
ACT Score: 27 (which will improve once I take it for a second time, and hopefully the ACT will grant my extra time request)
SAT score: 1380
I have a lot of extracurriculars as well. I was just elected as president of my school’s National Honor Society for next year and I am also in the Chinese Honor Society. I am planning to run for co-president of the student body at my school (which I think I will win). I am the Co-President of the Chinese Club and a service club. I am on my city council’s youth council which attends city council meetings and does a lot of charity work, and I am a youth ambassador for Habitat for Humanity. I’ve ran track and cross country since I’ve been in high school as well. I am in the economics club, was in the philanthropy club at my old school in 9th grade, and a member of the Teenage Republicans Club at my school. In 9th grade I organized a Student vs Faculty basketball game for charity and I plan to organize a dodgeball tournament for charity this year.
I held a job at a fast food restaurant for some time in the beginning of the school year, which I ended up quitting to focus more on school. I also started my own politically themed apparel website during the elections which made good profits considering how little time I put into it.
I am conservative and I am planning to start a political website with my liberal friend, where we will both write our views about certain issues and put them up on the website side by side. I am also going to apply for an internship at my senators office this summer and try to become a senate page for my state’s general assembly.
Another thing I am doing is talking with a member of my school board to have something created called the school board youth committee. I would most likely end up being the first chairman of it if the school board decides to approve of the idea. We would organize service projects to benefit the school system and also give our feedback to the board about how solutions in the school system could be solved. It would be made up of students from each public high school in my county.
I have applied to receive extra time for the ACT so my score would improve if they grant that to me and I believe my GPA is going to improve once my grades from this year are averaged into my current GPA.
Please be honest about whether you think I can get in. If you don’t think I can, should I look at American University? I really like the idea of going to school in DC and believe it would benefit me. Also, should get involved with anymore extracurriculars that would show Georgetown I am really into foreign affairs and would take advantage of their programs? There aren’t many opportunities for high schoolers interested in international politics.
Please let me know, thanks for your feedback!