<p>I would be a fantastic applicant for Northeastern:
3.98 UW, 5.05 W
2240 SAT with my second SAT scores coming in soon.
Moderate to excellent EC's
13 years of Spanish Immersion
Band for 7 years, placing in auditions consistently.
My essays are phenomenal.
Rigorous classes- all honors and 10 APs
7 of 561 kids in senior class.
National Merit Semi finalist and maybe a finalist.
Because of national merit, I would very much like to go to this great university with at least 30K guaranteed.
Problem:
The high school class requirements.
I have taken two honors science labs, and two honors science courses. However, northeastern requires 3 science courses.
I would have taken more, but AP Sciences are the only ones left to take, and they are all double blocked.
I bet they would accept me because of my qualifications, but I worry that this problem may disqualify me for the national merit scholarship.
Would it?
On a related note: who thinks AP Computer Science could be counted as a science course?</p>
<p>I think their willingness to be flexible would depend on what you plan to study. (If you’re looking to go into the sciences, this would be problematic.) I would contact admissions, though, and see if they can provide you with any guidance, because otherwise you seem like a fantastic applicant.</p>
<p>Why is it that you only ended up taking 2 science courses? I would have expected it is typical to take a class freshman, sophomore, and junior year, which would put you at 3 without taking a course your senior year.</p>
<p>I took four science courses: Earth/environmental, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.
They require 2 lab courses in addition to the 3 science courses, and two of my four science classes were labs.
But yeah, thanks for the advice. I suppose I will call them.</p>
<p>Don’t know where you got your information from - the admissions page says this:</p>
<p>The most competitive applicants will have completed 4 years of English, math and science in addition to foreign language, history, social sciences and the arts.</p>
<p>Sounds like you have 4 years of science which is all they ask for.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what you’re worried about, then. You have four science classes. Are you worried because none of them are AP courses and only 2 were honors?</p>
<p>They were all honors, but I see my error now.
They require 3 sciences, two of which need to be labs. In good!</p>
<p>Yup, you’re good to go. Don’t worry. If you end up being a merit finalist, they may even pay for you to visit the campus and have dinner with the faculty. Wine and dining (w/o the wine of course, this is America unfortunately).</p>
<p>Are you referring to University Scholars? That’s not <em>directly</em> related to national merit.</p>