<p>if this is your 3rd year in America, that’s realllly impressive for an immigrant
but for your mini resume, you said you published a book, what type of book? self published or actually submitting it to like a publishing company that printed and edited it for free…b/c that type of thing takes like 2 years usually for most authors. i also looked it up online but didn’t find it, except for a link back to this thread?</p>
<p>but anyway,
your scores aren’t the best, but there are people who get in with lower scores, so I really don’t think that’s toooo bad of a deal. for hyps, I definitely think you’re reaching a lot, but then again, I don’t know your full resume, so I can’t really judge. I’d recommend comparing yourself to the stats on CC a lot, some ppl do AMAZING in school and yet don’t get into HYPS and similar schools by some crazy chance.</p>
<p>If you took away an immigrant status, and your residency is Utah, the above alone would make Northwestern seem like a reach.
But Utah is a crazy good state to live in for college admissions, but if I were you, and all I had was the above, I wouldn’t really apply to schools with less than a 20% acceptance rate (as it seems like all your schools were really, the better part of them)
good luck with essays!</p>