<p>About to be a senior in less than thirty days!!!</p>
<p>STATS
IB Student.
Rank: 21 of 365
WGPA: 4.9
UW GPA: 3.4
ACT: 29 (I'm considering retaking it?)
School type: Public
Race:African American
I live in Southwest Chicago, So i'm definitely going to take the train into Evanston for an interview. Will that get me brownie points?</p>
<p>DREAM SCHOOL/REACHES (I will apply ED to one of them, probably NU)
UPenn
Northwestern
Cornell</p>
<p>MATCHES
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
University of Pittsburgh
Howard University</p>
<p>SAFETY
Northern Illinois University</p>
<p>Freshman Year Grades/Schedule</p>
<p>Honors Survey of Literature B/B
Regular Algebra I D/D
Honors Biology B/B
Honors World Studies B/B
Honors Spanish II C/B
PE I C/C
General Music C/C</p>
<p>Sophomore Year Grades/Schedule</p>
<p>Honors English II: American Literature A/A
Honors Geometry & Trigonometry D/D
AP Environmental Science C/A
Honors US History A/A
Honors Spanish III B/B
PE II C/C
Music Theory C/C</p>
<p>Junior Year Grades/Schedule (This is the year that pushed my GPA through the roof)</p>
<p>IB English A/A
IB Math Studies B/A
IB Biochemical Science B/A
IB European History A/A
IB Spanish I B/A
Theory of Knowledge A/A
IB Visual Arts C/B</p>
<p>I would think your chances are no better than 20%. As you undoubtedly know, your transcript and ACT score will not impress.<br>
I hope that’s “honest” but not “brutal.”</p>
<p>First-pat yourself on the back-As you say, Junior year was impressive. When looking at the types of classes you excelled, versus the ones you struggled, you may also want to consider what major you want to pursue. Math may not be your strong suit, but history/literature jump off the page. G’Luck!</p>
<p>thanks for the honesty guys. My counselor also concurred that getting mostly A’s in IB courses did two things: it pushed my GPA up alot, and she also said that it shows I can/will excel in college coursework, and that it does one of two things: it either says that my frosh/soph years were just laziness, or that I’m inconsistent when it comes to getting good grades (like an up/down line graph). Like I said, I want to apply ED, and I really hate relying on URM status, but I hope that it gets me in.</p>
<p>Your GPA might be a tad bit low, but because you are a URM, I would say you have a pretty good chance. I don’t think PE/Music grades matter much to NU so that should boost your GPA up.</p>
<p>But then again, that tells them that you are solely an academic based student?
Any EC’s? Play any sports?</p>