<p>My daughter, who is in her first year at Georgetown’s SFS, was offered the Trustee Scholarship last year. My understanding, from what we were told when she was being wined and dined (and the website includes a similar, albeit brief description), is that for this full-tuition scholarship (and the Presidential as well), they’re looking for the top1-1.5% students nationally. I assume that is partially based on test scores. My daughter had a 2340 on the SAT I and her three SAT II scores came in at 2350–each above 770. She was a straight-A student and ranked 3rd in a class of 560, she was a full IB candidate and additionally had taken numerous AP classes. Finally, as referenced on the website, they’re looking for leadership. My daughter had a very strong EC resume including 4 yrs journalism–2 years as editor-in-chief of school newspaper, 3 years mock trial including team wins and personal awards, she had won a nat’l journalism writing award, Nat’l Merit commended, lots of voluntarism in journalism and with youth, she was a paid academic tutor, and much more. It appeared that all the other kids that were candidates were of the same caliber. In fact, we saw some of them at other school events (e.g., this daughter’s twin obviously pretty competitive. </p>
<p>We do know one other girl from my daughter’s high school who was offered the Presidential Scholarship and although her grades and test scores were not at the same level as my daughter’s, her resume/leadership was even more impressive.</p>
<p>Good luck! It was painful to watch our daughter turn down such a generous offer from such a great school.</p>