Georgetown 2022 EA Results

meganmcguire
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 15:46:12 +0000

SAT I (breakdown): 1400 (CR 730 M 670 Essay 21)
ACT (breakdown): 32 first time (35 english 27 math 35 reading 31 science 9 essay) 30 the second time was a school mandated testing (30 english 28 math 34 reading 28 science no writing)
SAT II: US History 670, Chemistry650, Literature 710
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.92
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 7/417
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry 2
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus, Honors Civics and Economics, Dual Enrollment English, Advanced Journalism
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Al Neuharth Free Spirit Conference and Journalism Scholarship Arizona Representative, Student of the Month, SkillsUSA national competitor and state gold, silver, and bronze medalist

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Journalism (Editor-in-Chief/President 12, Design Editor/Secretary 11), SkillsUSA (President 11-12), We the People (President 12), Interact (Secretary 12), Renaissance Club, NHS, Varsity Soccer
Job/Work Experience: Intern at a law office, worked at a church’s day care
Volunteer/Community service: volunteered at a church
Summer Activities: personal travel to Japan( 2x once by myself for 2 weeks), Italy and Greece (on a school club trip), the Al Neuharth Conference, SkillsUSA nationals in Kentucky
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Short essay: 8, I wrote about how my journalism class, advisor, and peers have become my family and home. I wrote how the class has taught me ingenuity, organization, and dedication. It made my advisor cry when she read it.
Personal essay: 8, I wrote about why I am a free spirit and describing my personality with metaphors such as comparing myself to sushi
SFS essay: 7, my SFS essay was on water scarcity and how it needs to be faced with a greater sense of threat

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): I waved my FERPA rights

Teacher Rec #1: 9, Junior English teacher and she loves me. She’s also an amazing writer and I asked her to write it back in January
Teacher Rec #2: 10, my journalism advisor is AMAZING and shes written me rec. letters before and they’re always solid
Counselor Rec: 7-8, I honestly don’t know. She likes me but we’re not super close but I see her all the time so I really can’t say
Additional Rec:
Interview: 8, I think it went well. My interview lasted about 90 minutes and it was over facetime because the closest alumni to me was 3 hours away. We talked a lot about where Georgetown is, its climate, and his time spent there. it was really fascinating because he was there during watergate and Vietnam. He said he would write me a really goood rec. at the end but cautioned it with you’re competing against people from the Xavier school ( a really good school in Phoenix, AZ) and I thought it was over from there.

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: SFS, Culture and Politics
State (if domestic applicant): Arizona
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 230,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): my town qualifies as a rural community

Reflection: Honest to everything holy, I can’t believe I got in. I was like there is no way I mean look at my 2 on the AP chem test. I would say to everyone else don’t doubt yourself because you will end up where you need to be.

Strengths: Essays, rec’s, and interview because we just had a really good conversation
Weaknesses: testing and classes
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted:I think I was accepted because my personality really shines through in my essays and hopefully the recommendations. i tried to be as “me” as possible when I did my interview and just wanted to be genuine and not fake by trying to ask all these specifics about curriculum and etc instead I asked about what the dorms are like.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted: Creighton University, Arizona State University, PACE univeristy

General comments: GOOD LUCK EVERYONE