Please help! Will I have a good chance at Georgetown or Emory?

Chance Me / Match Me
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Hi! I’m a sophomore at a charter school in Florida. I really want to major in legal studies at a college like Georgetown or Emory. My strongest abilities in school are foreign language and English, so I’m really building those up in my application.

When I graduate I will have stats kinda like this:
GPA: (Weighted) 4.5
GPA: (UW) 3.8 or 3.9ish
12-13 AP classes (all exams passed)
(APs in English, science, history, economics, Spanish, psychology, comparative gov…)
ACT: 32
NEW SAT: 1400-1450ish (just a guess based on past scores)
SAT SUBJECT SPANISH: 730
SS CHINESE: 760
SS LIT: 650
Also–I’ve studied Spanish since 7th grade and will up to 12th, completing an AP Spanish + Spanish 4 honors and will have done the same for Chinese

& my ECs:

  • president of Spanish competition team (2 years)
    -secretary Spanish competition team (1 year)
    -founder of the Green Team (an environmental club, basically) - president for 2 years
    -secretary of model United Nations (1 year)
  • held a job for 2.5 years
  • tutored Spanish students every week for three years
  • volunteered at the community environmental learning center for 3 years

ALSO there are some projects that I might do depending on how much they impact my chances of acceptance…
So should I do any of the following?

  • launch a free online program aimed at kids to teach Spanish to English speaking kids and vice-versa
  • create a student-run school board that works in tandem w the actual school board
  • launch a series of community events(which I’ve planning already) aimed at families who are struggling financially, including:
    • meals on a dime for people below 200% poverty level: provide meals, Show cooking demonstrations, etc
    •going to schools in the poorer part of my county and doing demonstrations on easy quick healthy cheap snacks for kids and passing out those healthy snacks and bagged lunches/foods for kids to take home

-I have a few other ideas but I can’t remember them and I don’t have the written outlines of them with me at the moment,
So if/when I remember them, I’ll add them.

Bottom line: what are my chances of Georgetown or Emory with these stats and EC’s and should I do those extra ideas I’m working on? Any suggestions for EC’s?

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What are your actual scores right now? Projections don’t frequently come true.

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This year I have made straight A’s in classes which are all AP, honors, or Pre-AP. My GPA for this school year is 3.9 (unweighted)
Freshman year I had a lot going on outside of school, so I made As and Bs, but one or two more Bs than As… my GPA then was 3.7 (Unweighted)

I passed the AP Human Geo Exam with a 3 after not having studied a BIT (like I said, a lot going on, its not something I’ve ever done before or will do again) and after having BOMBED one of the essays.
My current AP World History teacher believes I will make a 4 or 5 on the AP World Exam.

I just got my PSAT scores back, I did poorly on the math, which is something I am working to improve. I believe come this October I will be in the 70th percentile for math. However, the reading/writing section I was able to get into the 90th percentile, so I am not worried about this score. (I am giving percentiles because I can’t remember my scores at the moment.)

I’m projecting my scores on the Spanish/Chinese/Lit Sat Subject Tests based on national averages. I am confident I will score a little higher on the Spanish and Lit than the national average because these are areas I am extremely strong in. The Chinese Subject Test, however, has an extremely high passing rate, so I projected my score based on the national average.

Im projecting my ACT score on the following: My teachers surprised the students one day by springing a practice ACT exam on us. With no preparation I was able to achieve a 30.

For my GPA projection, I have never made a B before freshman year, and have never struggled in any class, even AP. (With the exception of math, which I am improving in fairly quickly)

I forgot to add in my first post, I will also have won multiple awards at the Florida State Spanish Conference.

Thank you SO, SO much for your help!

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all i have to say is if you are/ are aiming for/predict that you are 70th percentile in math and 90th in CR/W, that doesn’t correlate at all with your act or predicted sat.
to be competitive for these schools, much higher scores are needed.
your weakness in math is very concerning. your scores in one subject should never deviate from another by more than 100 points.

frankly, the most recent PSAT was extremely easy compared to actual SAT (new and old) and past PSATs.

however, maybe the SAT just isn’t your thing. the act is probably a better fit for you.

on the subject of the Chinese subject test, i recommend you don’t take it. in my opinion, the test is 800 or nothing. unless you speak beautiful Chinese and read very well in the language (compared to the regular ABC), i don’t think a 760 is very possible. Even the average american born chinese person(raised in a chinese speaking household) probably wouldn’t hit above a 700. I know people who speak chinese at home and have been learning the language for 4+ years in school who have scored less than 650 on practice tests. Superficially, their Chinese is just fine. the chinese SAT is very difficult, as you know. Unless the 760 was also your score on a mock test, don’t take it. .

on an irrelevant note, please state your ethnicity (as foreign language is devalued if the student speaks the language at home/ appears to speak the language at home)

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Thank you for the feedback.

I’m working to improve the math, but I meant *80th not 70th–even though that won’t make a huge difference I guess.

do you think i should replace the Chinese SAT test with another subject, in that case?

Race: White - not Hispanic
Gender: Female
Average Household Income: 50k-ish
Hooks (ex. 1st generation student): none, really

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If you think these schools aren’t good fits for me, can you recommend some that would be? Thanks