<p>the senior year is speculative:
Freshmen year uw/w: 2.00 gpa, my brother had cancer so I missed ALOT of school, pretty much nothing else happened
Sophomore year: 3.75 gpa uw/w, won best biology student, best history student, best English student, played varsity tennis. Started a very well received comedy show on my schools bulletin, won a tri-county biology contest, volunteered for 30 hours at an aids food bank. The uw gpa was low because I was taking two maths to catch up with myself and I had to learn algebra and geometry in 1 semester
Junior 4.0 uw, 4.45 w: took 3 APs and an accelerated, ran varsity cross country, v track (I realized I love running like crazy), won best physics/apUS hist student, most fluent Spanish student. was the ap ush representative for leadership, became a safe school ambassador (a bully fighting program), volunteered approx 100+ hours total at the free teen clinic, and i and a good friend of mine founded our schools debate club and our schools comedy club
That summer I took precalc and Spanish 3
Senior: 4.0 uw, 4.6 w: student body president, 60 more hours at the teen clinic, a humanitarian trip to Nicaragua. Another year of cross country and track
Since sophomore year I've been a scholar athlete, and have continued my comedy show (the school actually gave me a period for it)
2140 sat
The big issue I see is that even with these accounted for, it still comes to a hs gpa of 3.65, which I'm not sure is top 10%
I'm a scholastic honors graduate with 15 tutoring hours
My teacher recs are friggin insane</p>
<p>Sam – Am I correct that you’re currently a senior who has applied ED? If not, the advice changes slightly.</p>
<p>I think that in your case, the 3.6 GPA is deceptive. It obviously would be much higher had it not been for a freshman year that was disasterous both personally and academically. I also believe that many universities that take a holistic approach to admissions will heavily discount this year as not being representative.</p>
<p>I assume that you have made NU aware of your situation. Hopefully, it was a part of your GC’s letter too. (if not, though it’s a bit late, I’d still ask the GC to drop NU a line).</p>
<p>Other than that – there’s really nothing to say that you don’t already know. Your record Soph-Sr years is fantastic, and based on those years you would be a competitive candidate at NU. One would hope that given what you were going through, the low Fresh GPA would be understood, and that having overcome adversity might even be considered a considerable characther plus. Given the 18% acceptance rate overally, no one can say more.</p>
<p>thanks! and by speculative senior year i meant that it hasnt happened yet, although im signed up for the trip to nicaragua, and me and my running mate for asb prez are the only ones running</p>