<p>I just ended my junior year and I already know what colleges I want to apply to. I’m applying to a lot of top schools but I still want to go to a good college if I don’t get accepted into any of them. I was just wondering if Georgetown would be a safety for someone with my stats.</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0
Rank: 1/569
AP courses taken this past year:
AP Biology - 5
AP Calculus 1 - 4
AP U.S. History - 5
AP English Literature - 5
AP courses I will be taking next year:
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus 2
AP Government and Politics
AP English Language
Do I have enough??</p>
<p>SAT II: Math 2: 760
U.S. History: 780
Biology: 790</p>
<p>ACT:35</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:
Editor Of School Newspaper - This past year and next year
One of the 5 student editors of our school’s Literary Magazine - This past year and next year
Creative Writing Club Creator - Past 3 years + Next year
Spanish Club Officer - Past 3 years named officer last year remain position next year
Secretary of Spanish National Honor Society - This past year and next year
IMEA ( Illinois Music Education Conference ) - This past year and HOPEFULLY next year if lucky
ReVerve Choir - A extracurricular choir that sings popular songs acapella - Past 3 years + next year
Spotlight Choir - A extracurricular choir that sings jazz songs acapella - Past 3 years + next year
Tri-M Music Honor Society - Past year + Next year</p>
<p>I Have Awards from my school that people receive at assemblies but I’m not nationally ranked or anything like that but here they are
Most Dedicated Music Student - Sophomore Year
Most Dedicated Literary Student - Freshmen Year
Best Leadership Skills - This Past Year</p>
<p>300+ hours of Community Service at Big Brothers and Sisters an organization that high school students go and read to unprivileged kids. - Have participated in since beginning of Freshmen Year</p>
<p>No. I regret that you would need to differentiate yourself from the hundreds, if not thousands, of other top students that will be applying to Georgetown. What do you want to study? Which Georgetown school would you apply to? When was the last time your school sent someone to Georgetown? Where do the valedictorians from your high school typically go? How do you compare to them? This may be a good predictor.</p>
<p>Stats alone will not cut it, you will need to convince the admissions committee that they should accept you. Hint: don’t let them know it is your safety, they don’t really like that. A public ivy may be a better safety for someone like you with impressive stats.</p>
<p>I don’t view Georgetown as a safety school. It’s up there with the other highly selective schools. You stats are good, even a little better in some areas than my S who was admitted into the class of 2015. As stated, however, you will need to differentiate yourself to the Adcom through your essays and/or your teacher and GC recommendations. Over the past year we found that nearly all of the top schools will receive between 20,000 and 30,000+ applications for entering classes ranging from 1,200 to about 2,000. If you have the stats you have a lottery ticket in the admissions game. To get beyond the lottery ticket you need the extra edge to make the Adcom take notice. Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks! I always viewed Georgetown as a reach school for me until I told someone (an adult who went to a top school) where my reach schools were and they told me to think of Georgetown as a safety. I doubted them right away so I started this thread. I’m glad you guys proved me right. Oh and sorry to put “I was just wondering if Georgetown would be a safety for someone with my stats” I sound like one of those people who assume a good grades and after school activities will get you into a top school. I’m not one of those people and sorry if I came off like a snob. Thanks for your comments though!</p>
<p>^ That’s exactly what I’m preparing myself for. Acceptances to only safety schools. And I did send that to my the Adult who is my prestige whore uncle.</p>
<p>No offense, but while your stats are great as always, you have a good as shot as anybody. Now I don’t think GT is a reach, maybe a high match… But good luck. Just to add to perspective, my sister is going to GT next year. She had a 32 on act (2200 sat) pretty good gpa, but not as good as yours, but she also spoke 4 fluent languages, so you really have to be special to get in to the top schools. Anyways good luck, I think you have a great chance at all schools listed.</p>
<p>theartsyone - There are no real guarantees out there in the top 25 or so schools that can be counted as safeties unless you are from california and you have an auto in at UCB or UCLA based on your profile. Your profile is quite good but it is very hard to assume a high end private school as a safety. As you could see, this person made some assumptions based on the 4.0 GPA and perfect ACT score but the listing of safeties and matches was inaccurate.<br>
I have no doubt you may deserve an admission at Georgetown but to consider it a safety would be the wrong way to list it. As long as you consider it at least a high match, you are rating them correctly.</p>
<p>@theartysone: The adult you talked to clearly thinks it is 1978. Congratulations on having stats good enough to guarantee that your paperwork will not be put through the shredder upon arrival at the admissions office of (most) of the top 25 schools in the country, and will likely end up on the stack of 4000 or so from which they will pick their final 1500 to whom they will make offers… now all you need to do is hope your essay about the best hamburger you ever ate isn’t read by a vegan AO, or that your AO isn’t saving a spot for a particular favorite at the slotting meeting on the same week your app gets across his/her desk. Or maybe you just look like your interviewer’s old boyfriend and she writes you up as “smug looking” for no good reason. Point being that it truly is a crapshoot once you have met the numbers (and you CLEARLY do that so please do not worry there). At a certain point, it becomes some lightning strike that actually pushes you across the line or, alternatively, keeps you from crossing that line. My year, the valedictorian failed to get into ANY of her schools except a state college with a low theshold for admission. No one knows why. Her scores were superb, her resume in general looked great, but there was something there that led 5 or 6 top schools to all flee… assuming no collusion amongst them, it seems possible that maybe it was 5 discrete things, different at each of the schools in question, but taken on the whole resulted in her ending up in a place she hardly envisioned. Oh and I think she had Georgetown as her safety too. … Just kidding. Good luck. You are well on the way. But take nothing for granted.</p>
<p>I don’t think Georgetown is ever a safety, but if you are Valedictorian it could be a match. Try to come up with some other hooks, if you can to make it a real possibility.</p>
… Just kidding. Good luck. You are well on the way. But take nothing for granted.</p>