Georgetown Class of 2017 Results Thread

mmmgirl
Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:36:04 +0000

Decision: Deferred

School: College

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (Single-sitting): 2170
[] SAT breakdown: M=670, CR=800
[] ACT: N/A
[] SAT II: 770 Literature, 740 U.S. History, 560 Spanish
[] Unweighted GPA: 3.97
[] Weighted GPA: 4.53
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/1 (homeschooled)
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): U.S. Government (5), English Language (4)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[] Senior Year Course Load: College English Literature, College World Politics, College Contemporary Literature, College Contemporary Politics, AP Statistics, AP Environmental Science, AP Latin, Honors World History 4, Honors Rhetoric, self-studying for 4 other APs
[] Rigor of Schedule: Very rigorous, but slightly unconventional
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, NMSF etc.): NMSF; Phi Theta Kappa, President’s List, and campus-wide Spanish award at dual enrollment college
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Academic Extracurriculars: Girls State (Senator, won award); Internship for Political Campaign for over a year; writer/editor for homeschoolers newsletter
[] Other (Instrumental, Athletic): Judo–green belt, board of directors, attended 2 national training camps
[] Job/Work Experience: None
[] Volunteer/Community service: ~1000 hours from my internship, ~100 from judo-related events, and another 100 or so miscellaneous
[] Summer Activities: 9th–Youth leadership camp; 10th–judo camp; 11th–judo camp and college courses; 12th–Girls State and full-time internship
[] Essays: Weak. I’m a horrible procrastinator and wrote all of them in the couple of days before the application was due, which was also the busiest week of my life, when I worked about 50 hours for a political campaign. Barely edited them and got NO ONe else to read them. It’s pretty shameful.
[] Teacher Recommendation: Very good. I got it from a college professor who had me for two semesters and who is a good friend of mine. She let me see the letter, which was extremely positive.
[] Counselor Rec: Very good, considering my mom wrote it.
[] Additional Rec: None.
[] Alumni Interview: I thought it went decently well, not amazing. I can be kind of shy and we didn’t like immediately click and spend hours chatting, but I didn’t say anything stupid or mess up and I think the interviewer liked me.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[] Intended Major: Government
[] State (if domestic applicant): Florida
[] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[] School Type: Home Schooled
[] Number of applicants from school: 1
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Female
[] Income Bracket: Lower-middle class
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, recruited athlete, legacy): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: High GPA, interesting background, demonstrated passion for my career and academic interests, pretty high SAT I
[] Weaknesses: Miserable SAT Spanish score, essays, few APs and no traditional ECs
[] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: SAT Spanish and essays, nothing really stood out about me
[] Where else are you applying: Brown, Columbia, Duke, Penn, GW, American, Florida State, maybe Boston University, maybe Yale
[/ul]General Comments:
Congratulations to all the people who got accepted! I’m really disappointed, Georgetown is my first choice school. But I’m going to do whatever it takes to get in RD!! Hope to see everyone in DC next fall!