waitinginruralwv

Eth-White
Sex- Male
Area- West Virginia!
Religion- Catholic and Greek Orthodox

School: About 600 students in Rural WV (though, near Pittsburgh and Ohio). It’s a Public School, and we don’t really offer a lot of the higher-level courses. I’ve had a fairly decent amount of classes of what IS offered, except I have forgone Calculus (took Pre-Calc) and physics so I could focus on Social Sciences, since that is where my concentration lies.

My school doesn’t have people apply Ivy League. I’m one of the first people who has applied from it in over 15 years (and the two others who have applied Ivy went to UPenn).

SAT:
Math-600
C.R.- 640
Writing- 710
Essay- 8 and 10

ACT:
29

SAT II:
US- 570/630
Math I- 570
Math II- 570
Literature—540/570

Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: School doesn’t weight grades

#1 in my high school class out of approx. 200

AP Classes:

AP Chem
AP Chem—Lab
AP English Lit.
AP Civics/Government (online)
AP US History
AP Psychology

Also, this year I’ve been trying to find classes since they are not offered at my school. 2 of my AP’s (Psych and History) are taught teleconferenced from another school, and I’m the first person in my school to take an online course (AP Gov). I’m also taking an independent study course this semester, so I’m taking 5 classes instead of 4. All in all, throughout High School, I’ll have had 35 classes—while I’ve really only had an opportunity to take 32.

ExtraCurricular:

Key Club: 4 years, current GOVERNOR of West Virginia’s District and a member of the Key Club International Council. I’ve spent nearly 1 thousand hours with the organization in planning stages, communications, etc, as well as hundreds of hours doing community service.
Academic Games: 8 years (since 5th). Multi-National Champion in individual games, teamwise, and all-around titles.

Lector at my local church (I read the Bible Passages on Sundays)

Student Council: Rep, 1 year. Class Vice-President, 2 years

Environmental Awareness Club: 3 years. Publicist and Secretary

Volunteer at local nursing home: 5 years (7-11). Over 600 volunteer hours

Job: Local Assisted Living Facility: 400+ hours in 9 months. When the activites Director left, I was made a temporary manager/department head for the summer, working 40+ hours a week.

Debate Team: 2 years, regional debate champion

Lit Mag/Yearbook/School Newspaper: Let’s just say the Publication’s Department sees a lot of me!

Friends of Rachel Club: 1 year (just started, charter member).

Soccer: 9th, Varisty Letter. OVAC All-Academic Team

Community Service has really been the highlight of my HS career.

Essays: I think their good. But, that would be up to the Admissions Counselor(s). I wrote about my service and Key Club Involvement/Journey and how it’s given me a worldy perspective outside of a rural WV High School.

Teacher Recs.- Read a few, they seem excellent. My Counselor recc. Was amazing.

Standardized tests are what will make or break me. Basically, my SATII’s aren’t amazing by any standard, but I’m hoping everything else sorta balances it out…..

I aced interviews (when offered, since there aren’t necessarily officers in my area), so those are my strong point. I think my experiences and my emphasis on the importance of networking with others to get a better knowledge will help.

What are my chances??? I applied for SFS, and I do have an uncle that is a professor there.

simpson98

I hate to say it, but I think your test scores would keep you out. A 600 Math, 640 CR, 3 570s and a 630 are all below Georgetown's ranges.

waitinginruralwv

Got in though haha

ebaniaga

Georgetown seems to accept students based on location. I too was in the same situation as you, coming from a rural area in where pretty much no one ever applies to big name schools like Georgetown. I as well had very poor test scores, my SAT IIs never broke 600 and they highest I got on an SAT was 620 in math. I still got accepted!!! Point is, universities like Georgetown actually review applicants holistically and are not just stat driven like many on the forums believe. Congratulations!