Georgetown Class of 2017 Results Thread

DragonMagic44
Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:35:50 +0000

Decision:Accepted

School:Georgetown College

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (Superscore)(Single-sitting): 2260 (Single sitting)
[] SAT breakdown: M=700, CR=790, W=770
[] SAT II: Lit=800, US History=770, Math I=640
[] Unweighted GPA: My school doesn’t do GPA but all As, some A-
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH=5
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, Science elective, Senior English electives, African History, Foreign Policy, AP Econ, Pre-calc, French
[] Rigor of Schedule: medium to hard (for my school)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, NMSF etc.): won a major international scholarship award, 20.000$ annually for each year in college [/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Academic Extracurriculars: Writer and editor for school paper, co-head of history tutors
[] Other (Instrumental, Athletic): School choir, two season athlete (mostly for fun, not that good)
[] Job/Work Experience: Have worked every summer since I was 12 at my family’s restaurant. Also used to work there part time all-year before I went to boarding school
[] Volunteer/Community service: Fundraising club mentioned before, also fundraised for the same cause over the summer and volunteered at a hospital last year but didn’t mention on app
[] Summer Activities: Work
[] Essays: Pretty good. One essay did a good job explaining a discrepancy in my grades sophomore year which I had been worrying about.
[] Teacher Recommendation: Really, really good. I have a really good student-teacher relationship with my history teacher and have a good out-of-class professional relationship too, as I am co-head of the history tutors at my school.
[] Counselor Rec: Amazing. My counselor read me a small excerpt after I sent in my application (on his own accord) and I teared up.
[li] Alumni Interview: The interviewer talked a lot about her experiences at Georgetown and she described exactly the kinds of things I want to do. I got the impression that it went really well. [/li]
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[] Intended Major: History
[] Country (if international applicant): Scandinavia (don’t want to be too specific)
[] School Type: Private/Boarding
[] Number of applicants from school: Unsure, at least three
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Female
[] Income Bracket: Lower-middle
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, recruited athlete, legacy): From a really underrepresented country [/li]
[/ul]Reflection[list]
[] Strengths: SAT scores, essays, recs.
[] Weaknesses: Grades early in high school, EC to a degree
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Probably a combination of my strenghts
[] Where else are you applying: HYP + AW