<p>Hey, everybody! Thanks for reading this. Northwestern is by far my number one school, and I'd definitely appreciate some chances, so I can either brace myself for rejection or feel a little more at ease. I'm applying ED to SESP, hoping to double major in Secondary Teaching and English with the intention of someday being a superintendent. I'm white, female, and comfortable income. Both parents have Master's degrees.</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT:
CR: 740
Math: 740
Writing: 760</p>
<p>SATII:
Spanish: 690
Math I: 740
Literature: 740</p>
<p>ACT: 35 (I don't remember specifics off the top of my head, but definitely had a 36 in Science and Reading)</p>
<p>PSAT: 212, enough to make me National Merit</p>
<p>GPA: 4.3/4.3 (Weighted)
Unweighted, not sure.</p>
<p>Grades: All A's except for one semester of freshman "Geometry X" (Honors) that was a B+ due to a bad grade on the final exam. </p>
<p>Classes:
FYI- I have attended two different high schools. The first was a regular public school, and by regular I mean all effed up, especially with regard to gifted students. No student, no matter how gifted, was allowed to take an AP class under any circumstances before Junior year. Northwestern, however, does not know that, I'm pretty sure.</p>
<p>Freshman Year:
Geometry Honors
English Honors
Bio Honors
Band
Choraliers (All women's show choir- audition required)
Gym/"Careers"
Spanish I</p>
<p>Soph:
Alg II "Pre-AP Honors"
English 10 "Pre-AP Honors"
Chem "Pre-AP Honors"
World History "Pre-AP Honors"
Band
Health/Gym
Spanish II</p>
<p>My junior year I switched to a 2-year residential high school for gifted juniors and seniors that requires an application process very similar to what one would do for college. For this reason, my school does not do class rank. At my old school, however, I was definitively #1. "Civitas" is my school's codename for APUSH-Gov/Econ hybrid. Colloq is a mandatory discussion class.</p>
<p>Junior:
AP Calculus AB (5 on Exam)
AP Physics B (4 on Exam)
American Lit/World Lit (1 sem. each, both required)
Spanish III
Civitas I/Civitas II (1 sem. each)
Junior Colloquium
Visions and Revisions (English elective, Creative Nonfiction)</p>
<p>Senior:
AP Spanish
Linear Algebra (College Level)
AP English Language and Composition
AP Physics C
Senior Colloquium
Decades of Controversy (Social Studies Elective on Post WWII-Vietnam)</p>
<p>Throughout Junior and Senior years I have also worked with my AP Comp teacher on an Independent research study on poetry vs. prose and poetry as mathematical expression. (Yes, I've heard of the online course Northwestern offers on that very subject. I was extremely tempted.)</p>
<p>Essays: Fantastic. Seriously. Writing's my thing. I wrote a poem (non-rhyming) that served as an extended metaphor of what writing means to me, followed by a traditional essay elaborating on and explaining the poem. My comp teacher, who sugarcoats nothing, assured me it was a winner. I also did the additional Research Supplement.</p>
<p>Recommendations: That same comp teacher who interviewed me for a good half hour about my future goals and worldviews before writing the recommendation. She is also a Princeton Ph.D. Also, I had my Civitas II teacher write one. He's a very experienced and qualified man who knows my family well and absolutely adores me. I put 150% into his class, and I was not really a history fan at the time.
Counselor Rec: That man was impressed that I showed up to the meeting and actually had my stuff together. It was good, I'm sure.</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:
Academic Super Bowl every year since 6th grade.
Spell Team- 6-10 (not offered at new school.)
Quiz Bowl- 9-10 (not offered at new school)
Marching band- 8-10 (not offered at new school)
United Sexualities- 11-12
Green Club- 11(member) 12(president)
Project Outreach- 11-12
Choir- 6-11
Community Service- 70-ish hours with third graders as a teacher's aide
Creative Writing Club- 11, founder and president, however, club was disbanded due to lack of people actually writing things.
Accepted to Interlochen's Summer Creative Writing Program, 2nd year application obligation waived.
Jobs: Once single-handedly ran a 2-week day camp for little kids in my neighborhood.</p>
<p>*I have made Northwestern aware of the extracurricular limitations of my new school.</p>
<p>Awards and Distinctions:
National Merit
Bryn Mawr Book Award
"El Premio de Oro"
Representative at Senator Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow's Leaders
Honorable Mention in IUPUI Poetry Contest</p>
<p>Hooks:
Few, but I go to a residential high school, and I had an interview and a campus visit.</p>
<p>That's all. I think I may have forgotten an extra-curricular or two, but that's the gist of it. Thanks so much!</p>