Any chance at Northwestern?

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<p>Personal:
Ethnicity: Asian Male
Location: New York
School Type: Moderately Competitive Medical Magnet High School
Intended Major: Biology/Chemistry or Computer Science/Engineering</p>

<p>GPA:
3.1 UW</p>

<p>SAT I :
Critical Reading: 740
Mathematics: 780
Writing: 760
(1520/2280)</p>

<p>SAT II:
United States History: 750
Physics: 790
Math Level II: 780</p>

<p>Extra-curricular Activities:</p>

<p>H.P.R.E.P. (Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program) at
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University</p>

<p>R.E.A.D.Y. Program (Responsibly Employed And Dedicated Youth)</p>

<p>Islamic School at Jamaica Muslim Center (8 years)</p>

<p>Leadership Positions:
Treasurer of Student Government (11)
Founder of the Chess Club
President of the Chess Club</p>

<p>Club Activities:
Member of the Health Sciences Club (11,12)
Member of the Social Wellness Club (12)</p>

<p>Instrument :
Experience Playing Piano (8 years)
Experience Playing Harmonium (10 years)</p>

<p>Work Experience :
Private Student Tutoring in literacy, grammar, and mathematics (9,10)</p>

<p>Community Service :
220 hours for Website Design
30 hours as Teacher's Assistant</p>

<p>College Now Courses at York College : (11)
PSY 102 : Introductory Psychology – B
POL 103 : Politics and Government in the United States *
College Now Course at Borough of Manhattan Community College :
CHE 110 : General Chemistry *
PHY 110 : General Physics **</p>

<ul>
<li>Will be completed before applications are due.
** Will be completed after applications are due.</li>
</ul>

<p>Senior Year Schedule: (Most rigorous schedule possible)
AP Biology
AP Calculus AB
Honors English IV
Participation in Government/Economics
POL 103 : Politics and Government in the United States (Semester One)
CHE 110 : General Chemistry (Semester One)
PHY 110: General Physics (Semester Two)</p>

<p>Do I have any chance at Northwestern University? Also, it would be gladly appreciated if you could suggest solid safety, and match schools. Thank you for your help!</p>

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<p>Piano- you're in decent shape, but your GPA is a little low. Straight A's first semester will help a ton, can you do it? A girl from my school got in ED with classes like yours, but I think her scores were lower. You're obviously really motivated academically. </p>

<p>If anyone's interested…
I was rejected ED last year. They explained it as a lack of balance (it makes sense: I didn't take science senior year, and I'm clearly better at english and history than math and science). I was going for Medill, btw. Here are my stats so you know...er...what not to do.
3.6ish uw respected prep school.
2090 SAT (730 v, 630 m, 730 w)
APs- psych, mod euro, eng lit, eng lang
(took honors calc senior year, not AP)
Yearbook section editor, honor council, serious discipline committee, advanced drama (thespian honor society), SERVE tutor- those are the major clubs, but there are a bunch more.
Community Columnist at the Tampa Trib
Nat. merit commended scholar, a few honor societies.
They said they liked my essays</p>

<p>I’m one of probably very few people who actually know why the admission committee did what they did (my college counselor was more surprised than I was that I didn’t get in, and emailed one of the reps), so I thought it could be helpful- I certainly hope it is. Good luck to everyone this year.</p>

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<p>Piano, your GPA is really low but your EC's are amazing. Remember that is you write a stong essay you might still have a chance. Good Luck! :)</p>

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<p>yeah, just like everyone said, really low gpa but you have other strengths that can override that, just make sure to focus on them on your application, and i'm telling you, i believe recs play a very big factor in their decisions once you are deemed "competitive" so try and get a good one from one of the teachers you served as a TA to, or something like that.</p>