ggarcia2014

Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Hispanic - Mexican
Location: Houston, Texas
Family Income: approx 100k
School: Top 100 Public School by both US News and World Report & Newsweek; Ranked #1 in Houston by another organization

Stats
GPA: 4.47 W (Valedictorian has around 4.75)
Rank: 9 out of 79; top 11%
SAT: 1st time 690M, 680CR, 650W = 2020C 2nd time 650M, 740CR, 700W = 2090C
SAT Superscore: 690M, 740CR, 700W = 2130C
SAT II: Math 2 670, US History 790, Spanish 800 Taking Math 2 again and World Hist
ACT: E30 M31 R32 S31 E9 = 31C
AP: US History, Spanish Lang 5; World Hist, English Lang, Euro Hist - 4

Senior Schedule:
AP Gov (1st Sem)/ Micro Eco (2nd Sem)
Yearbook
AP English Lit
Mentorship (Its an Independent Research Class)
AP Calc A/B
AP Spanish Lit
AP Stat

ECs
V Baseball 9/10/11/12
Catholic Youth Group 11/12
Speech/Debate Team 10/11/12
Spanish National Honor Society 11/12
National Honor Society 11/12
Varsity XC 11
Latin Club 9/10
Soccer Club 10/12
Principal's Advisory Committee 12
Superintendent's Adv. Committee 12

Summer Activities
Fish Camp Head Counselor 11/12
Changing the Face of Math and Science (Rice Nanotech Summer Program) 11/12
MESET (Univ of Houston Engineering Program) 12
Volunteer at Elementary School 10

Awards
AP Scholar with Distinction
2nd Place MESET Roller Coaster Derby Competition
Cum Laude on Latin 1 NLE
National Hispanic Scholar on PSAT
1st Place Spanish Religious Text, Finalist on Poetry and Storytelling at Debate competition
Wesleyan Book Award
Voted Most Talented of Junior Class
4th Place Roman History and Vocabulary at Regionals

I would put volunteering on here but there's not even a place for it on app. Around 200+ hours

Interview: I'm having it this Sunday hopefully it goes good

Essays: General one felt ok though not necessarily great, SFS one felt better but not glowing. Maybe I'm just a little hard on them though.

Applying to:

Georgetown SFS (EA) - I think I'm set on it as my first choice unless I get significantly superior FA somewhere else

Yale
Dartmouth
Amherst
Tufts
Pomona
Rice
Boston College
University of Texas - Austin
Texas A&M - College Station
University of Houston

mathmom

As an URM you probably have a bit of a leg up. Decent scores and grades. The main negative I see is that the EC list you given us makes you look more like a future engineer not SFS guy. Georgetown SFS is so selective, it's really impossible to predict chances. You might get in, you might not.

ggarcia2014

Ya engineering is my second passion and I'm going with int'l rel. mainly because I'm not a big fan of math which is essential to engineering, nevertheless history is my #1 thing.

I forgot to add that I am doing Model UN this year (it was restarted again this year) and UIL Social Studies and Current Events (UIL is like the way Texas competes in everything) so hopefully that helps.

I found a lot of the stuff I wanted to put on my app was missing so since my interviewee asked me for a resume on EC's I'm just going to ask her if she'll send it in with the rest of my interview.

Thanks mathmom

JohnRamboMcCain

with a 1430, you fall well below the 50th percentile of admitted applicants to SFS (Georgetown University- Office of Undergraduate Admissions). after that you're fighting an uphill battle the rest of the way

griffonr

^
Well those stats can be misleading, not every accepted SFS applicant with a 720 CR necessarily had a 700 M score, and vice versa.