I live in a very poor, country county, the second poorest in the state, so there aren’t many good clubs, programs, or resources for me.
31 ACT
4.0 Unweighted GPA
4 years of student government
11 years of piano
Internship at ORNL (largest lab in the U.S.)
Founder of an environmental club for 3 years
Founded the Helping Seniors Club for 3 years
Secretary of the TN Beta Club
National Honor Society
4-H State Speech Contest Winner
Volunteered every Saturday for 2 1/2 years at the nursing home
Thanks!
I am also female and white.
Why Georgetown, really do some sould searching and express it. You have a shot.Good luck!
Thanks! @preppedparent
I like Georgetown because it’s a place where I will fit in, based on student reviews. At my school, kids barely come to school, and no one loves to learn. Kids ride four wheelers all weekend long, and I do love the outdoors, but I am not the four wheeler type. Kids use slang language as if it is proper language. I am made fun of for studying and getting good grades, and I am also made fun off for having manners, speaking properly, and not wearing sweatshirts and sweatpants to school. Georgetown is a place where people love to learn, and they have manners. I know I should want to stand out, but I really need to just find people who will understand me. It got so bad in eight grade, I went through severe depression, but my parents do not believe in depression, so I had to be my own counselor. After half of a year, I finally recovered. Thanks again!
yes, your chances are great.
^^agreed
You have no chance at all. Pathetic ACT score
@fsa99 That is Georgetown’s average ACT. What is your idea of a good ACT score? How did you get your score?
don’t listen to @fsa99 's ACT score comment… Your geographic location WILL make up for it. And a 31 is Georgetown’s average ACT.
A lot will depend on the rigor of your courses. GPA is great, but for Georgetown, they wil need to see challenging classes.
Pasted below are two links that may be of interest to readers of this thread.
The first is to a news article in the Hoya that reports, “The average admitted student was in the top 2 percent of their class with SAT scores ranging from 710 to 770 in critical reading and 700 to 770 in math. The average ACT score was between 32 and 35.” It also advises that Georgetown’s overall acceptance rate may fall this year because the regular decision pool is expected to increase by 5 to 10 percent.*
The second is to Georgetown’s 2016 Student Profile** where the hard admission data is slightly different. This document, for example, reveals an average class rank of 97.6% for SFS and 96.9% for the College as well as middle 50% range (i.e. 25% to 75%) ACT scores of 32-35 for SFS and 31-34 for the College. This variance is a bit confusing because the Hoya article is about Early Action to the Class of 2021 whereas the admission data from this article quoted above occurs within a section seemingly discussing the Class of 2020.
In any event, a 31 ACT puts an applicant at the lower range of the applicant pool with respect to this particular admission rubric. This obviously makes the possibility of admission more difficult especially for an unhooked applicant. But it does not make admission impossible because Georgetown adopts a holistic admission approach that also carefully considers class rank, course rigor, recommendations, essays, hooks, and extracurricular activities.
Where a particular applicant falls within this admission continuum is impossible for anyone on CC to predict. As a general rule, however, I think it’s fair to say that Georgetown is a reach for the great majority of its applicants.
http://www.thehoya.com/georgetown-early-action-admissions-rate-reaches-record-low/
* https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/xani81o0z2iq0anudhge
Thank you @espenser ! I haven’t seen the newest statistics! I’ll try to raise my ACT!
Do you have any subject test scores? Georgetown requires three!
32-35 is inaccurate. Look at the released common data set for GTown. For instance, even Harvard’s act mid 50% is a 32-35, so saying that GTown expects the same range was H is wildly inaccurate.
@bubblepop12444 You can’t compare the mid 50% of GTown and Harvard or any school for that matter. It’s a mid-range not an average so it’s possible for any two schools to report the same mid 50% and have more students with, say, a 33 at one school and a 35 at the other, right? It is merely capturing where 50% of the students lie. 25% are above 35 so we know 25% have a 36. 25% are below 32 but we don’t know how far below 32.
As for this applicant, the 31 falls below the 50% mid-range of 32 - 35. The ACT score is only one factor.
@HopefulHoya1103 While you should consider getting your ACT score higher, keep in mind GTown is a school that requires all test scores be submitted. Also keep in mind that Gtown received a higher pool this year and for EA alone their 16% acceptance rate dropped to 11% because of the higher number of applicants. There are many wonderful schools that you will find so while it is okay to have this as one school you’d like to go to, make sure to find another 6 or 7 that you would be really happy to go to. Also run the financial calculators on each schools website to start the conversation with your parents about what your budget will be. Good luck!
@yalehopeful017 Due to the smallness and poverty of my school, we are not offered the SAT subject tests. I do have AP test scores, though. Will those be okay? Thanks!
Thanks @paveyourpath ! Do you have any recommendations?
@paveyourpath Thats not how 75th and 25th percentiles work… If the 75th percentile is a 35 we know that at least 25 percent have a 35 or 36. If the 25th percentile is a 32 we know that at least 25 percent have a 32 or lower. The 70th percentile could be a 35 and the 90th percentile could be a 35. We don’t know when that cutoff starts to be a 35 or when it becomes a 36. We simply know from those figures that the 75th percentile is a 35.
A schools 25th-75th percentile SAT’s are also much better representations in my opinion because the scale is much larger (The SAT is out of 80, 40 for Math and 40 for EBRW and you can get half scores for a section sometimes, whereas the ACT is out of 36). Having a larger scale will give you more information on where the 25th percentile and 75th percentile really are at. With ACT you don’t know if those percentiles are a high 31 or a low 31.
And Georgetown’s 25th-50th-75th percentile ACT’s are 29-31-33.
@HopefulHoya1103 I think they’ll understand your situation so you should be fine. I ended up applying to Georgetown too!!! Best of luck 
OP, Sat Subject Tests are not administered by your school. You need to individually register for them. If you yourself cannot afford them, you can get four free waivers (the exact process I am not sure of, but it involves proof of financial inability of course) and use them to take the three subject tests.