<p>Classes
Freshman
-all core
-spanish 1, speech and debate
straight as</p>
<p>sophomore
-all core( 1 AP)
-spanish 2, video production
straight as</p>
<p>junior year-
-core classes(4 aps)
plus spanish 3
4.5</p>
<p>(next year)senior year
-core classes(5 aps)
plus chamber singers</p>
<p>been performing professional theatre/film since age 7.
been singing opera for 6 years.(made 2 demos, record for childrens hospital)</p>
<p>Extracurricualrs:
Key Club (4 years)-Divisional Secretary, Lt.Gov
Drama Club(4 years) lead in 3 shows (drama club vp, pres)
NHS (3 years)-vice president
Speech and Debate Team- 3 years
Founder, Tri-City Teen Talent(been on channel news, 4 newspapers)-100hrs
Youth Tutor(4 years)-200 hrs
Library Volunteer-200 hours(also broadcast on city newstation about teen partners)</p>
<p>Sat/ ACT
ACT-31
SAT-taking beginning of senior year</p>
<p>Work
-Princess Parties(sing) with vocal coach
-Paid San Diego Opera(big time opera)
-Paid work at professional theatre</p>
<p>Awards: Student of the Year, Best female singer in musical, best actress in drama show, lots of community theatre awards, singing competetion awards, speech and debate awards</p>
<p>let me know PLEASE </p>
<p><em>by the way, forget the name "futuredoc."</em></p>
<p>hey i’m from san diego and i was admitted this year.</p>
<p>seems like you have a solid academic history + great ECs… the only thing would be to keep up yor grades throughout senior year and then do better on the SATs than you did on the ACTs. Nothing wrong with a 31, but competition is always tough for NU, so you want the best scores you can get. Make sure you spend a lot of time on your essays as well when that time to fill out the app comes.</p>
<p>do you plan to do theatre at NU? also, random question: opera for 6 years? like actually singing opera those years or participating in productions? i wasn’t aware kids could sing opera lol… just curious.</p>
<p>wow thank you so much kukucachoo:)
I am worried a little about senior year because of the so-called “senior slump” 
but I will work hard.</p>
<p>Yes, I want to participate in the arts at NU, but I am going to major in international relations.</p>
<p>I’ve been training in opera for six years. and during Freshman year, I auditioned for the San Diego Opera(maybe you’ve heard of it since your from SD!) and have been performing in their opera since. </p>
<p>also, what are some good tips for SAT1?</p>
<p>tips for sat I? review review review. depends on your strengths though. If you’re good at math, not so much at english, go over tons of vocab words and go over test strategies for the various types of questions–that would help for the critical reading section immensely. If you’re bad at math, it should be much easier to raise your score; math concepts tend to be easier to gain skill in. BUT to be honest, even if you don’t get a fabulous 2300+ on it, it won’t be the only thing looked at in your application. So while you want to get the best score you can, you don’t want to stress over it too much. </p>
<p>Admissions officers understand that it’s one score, one test, one saturday morning of your life. They’re probably going to be much more interested in your transcript and activities–things you’ve done throughout 4 years of high school.</p>
<p>btw: your involvement in sd opera is very cool. i’ve never been to their shows, but that’s quite admirable!</p>
<p>If youre applying for NU’s theater or music program, I think standardized test scores will play less of a role but like kukucachoo said, it wont hurt to bring them up a bit. The mean score on sat last year was about a 1440 for M+CR for NU.</p>
<p>Your EC/work are amazing and I think itll be a huge draw. Just make sure your essays and recs are good and id say you have a great shot. GL!</p>
<p>People certainly get into NU w/ ACT composites of 31 - that score is at the 98th percentile - certainly nothing to sneeze at.</p>
<p>My daughters only took the ACT, plus SAT subject tests - NO SAT I. Their cousins and a close family friend who took both the SAT and ACT all found that their percentile scores turned out to be much higher on the ACT. The tests are different, and some people perform better on one than the other. Given the history of cousins and friends, we just went w/ the ACT.
If you already have a 31 ACT score, you are already familiar with that test and have done well on it. If you wanted to bring it up, it certainly would not take a lot of study time for you to take it again and bring it up to a 32 or 33 - scores well within the very top percentile (99th). I am aware of quite a few kids who have done this.</p>
<p>Just for comparison, to get at the 98th percentile on the SAT I, you’d need a 1440 CR+M
<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat_percentile_ranks_2008_composite_cr_m.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board; or a 2140 CR+M+W <a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat_percentile_ranks_2008_composite_cr_m_w.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
<p>As mentioned, a 32 ACT puts one into the 99th percentile. To get into the 99th percentile of SAT composites, one needs a 1480 or a 2200.</p>
<p>As an additional benefit regarding schools that require SAT subject tests for SAT 1 takers – many (but not all) of them do NOT require SAT subject tests if you take the ACT w/ writing.
And along <em>those</em> lines, IMHO the ACT writing prompts are much more reasonable. The SAT prompts tend to be things like “Blahdiblah said that ‘the end is the beginning’ - discuss”. Some of the ones that I’ve seen are so off-the-wall that I, as a 50+ year old adult, would have trouble figuring out what the &<em>#! to write about. The ACT prompts that I’ve seen seem much less likely to really “knock you for a loop” and leave you sitting there in a panic thinking “</em>**?” - they’re about topics that most kids can relate to at least a little bit.</p>
<p>Now, w/ SAT score choice, you could go ahead and take SAT I and see which test makes you look better, and only submit that one. But with limited time (since you’re a VERY busy person), you might be better off spending that time preparing to retake the ACT if you are not happy w/ current score. (Also, IIRC, there don’t seem to be many vocab questions on the ACT.)</p>
<p>Just my $.02.</p>