Chance a friend and ill be forever grateful

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, I have a friend applying to Northwestern ED and she wanted to know her chances but didn't have an account.</p>

<p>She's a legacy (dad)
STATS:
GPA: 3.9 (weighted)
SAT: 2080 (don't know the breakdown sorry)
Took 3 AP's junior year APUSH (4) LANG (4) CHEM (4)
Rec's: one is amazing, the other is eh
Common App essay: one of the worst i've ever read</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
3 season athlete: volleyball, basketball, soccer (only varsity junior and senior years)
Captain of freshman volleyball, freshman soccer
Some minor volunteer work teaching mentally challenged kids to play soccer
DECA: some awards, went to nationals
National Merit Semi-Finalist
National Honor Society</p>

<p>Be as brutal as you want, I'll censor before I tell her...
Thanks!</p>

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<p>Work on her essay, apply RD and take the SAT again, and try and get some more EC’s in before she applies RD.</p>

<p>Given her stats right now, I’d put her at a mid reach. </p>

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<p>From what she has now, low reach. i think if the essay could be improved, it would be a match because the gpa is great and the sats arent awful. Chance back <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1233558-my-story-will-my-dream-schools-understand.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1233558-my-story-will-my-dream-schools-understand.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks for your input!!</p>

<p>Unfortunately, she already submitted her application with the terrible essay so theres no way to improve that.</p>

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<p>bump!! please let me know what you think!! even if its awful (…actually especially if its awful… im a sucker for bad news)</p>

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<p>its not bad news but it isn’t good news. It will help that her dad is a legacy but with a good essay its a high match. chance me? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1238653-please-i-will-chance-back.html#post13426281[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1238653-please-i-will-chance-back.html#post13426281&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>bump!! pleaseeee i need more feedback!</p>

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<p>terrible essay wont help and neither will those SAT scores, however that legacy and GPA and ED will help. If she had a good essay I’d say that it would be a high match, but with a bad essay it’s more of a low reach…</p>

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<p>I think that is a a low reach. It depends just HOW bad the essay really is. Legacy and ED really do help though.
Chance back?
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<p>Oh it was VERY bad… cliche, insincere, connected a random childhood event to a completed unrelated extracurricular, and was poorly written. I cringed multiple times while reading it. </p>

<p>I’m curious that a lot of you are saying the GPA is a good match for NU. At our highschool, a weighted 3.9 is pretty low…</p>

<p>Sure, I’ll chance anyone back who asks!</p>

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<p>Decent chances, but nothing too special based on what I’ve seen! Sorry!</p>

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<p>thanks for the feedback!!</p>

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<p>bump! meow meow meow</p>

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<p>She needs to improve on her SAT’s and her AP’s are kind of low especially for NW. Sports are good EC’s. I say it’s a reach.</p>

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<p>Thanks rfav! I appreciate the input</p>