Chance me for Northwestern

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Heyy. I’m graduating this year and I want to know my chances for Northwestern. Not sure yet about ED vs RD. Also, I’m taking a gap year. I’m a white/Asian gay male in a small town in the South, which has been interesting to say the least. My public high school has around 1300 students.

UW GPA- 4.0
W GPA- 4.8
Class Rank- First
ACT- 35
Will be taking Bio and WH subject tests
APs- Physics, Gov (8th grade); Psych, Chem (9th); Human Geo, Calc AB, Bio, World History (10th); Lit, Lang, Stat, Environmental Sci, USH (11th). Mostly 5s, all As.
Had to do multiple independent study courses to skip ahead or where school didn’t provide.

-Year round swimming for 11 years (25+ hours per week)/varsity all through school
-3 years at statewide education advocacy org, leadership position for last year. Included drafting and lobbying education bills in legislature, working with state education commissioner on accountability systems, quantitative and qualitative research on college preparedness at rural and low-income schools, publishing a book, preparing policy reports, presenting at various state and national policy conferences, etc. This and swimming have taken up a large chunk of my time in high school.
-Decent amount of veterans’ home and animal shelter volunteering as well as miscellaneous volunteering through clubs
-Pediatric care charity dance marathon organization and fundraising
-Y Club (YMCA affiliated service/civic engagement club), qualified to attend national mock-Congress conference, club treasurer
-NHS
-HOSA (also on its fundraising committee)
-Student gov all through high school, class president sophomore and junior year
-Volunteered one congressional campaign, will work on another during gap year
-Intern at SoS office, state AG office, and pro bono immigration law practice
-Helped develop and give presentations on mental illness at my school and others
-Volunteered registering high school seniors and college students to vote
-Various academic recognitions from my school and nearby universities
-Run a geography/map blog
-Great recommendations, good relationships with most of my teachers and my counselor. Could get recommendation from my political/EC supervisors too?

I’m also interested in Stanford, UVA, Yale, UNC, Brown, Georgetown, Pomona, and some others if anyone has any input on those. Won’t bother mentioning my less reachy schools. Thanks!

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Your ECs are really impressive, especially the education advocacy work. I think you’re a competitive applicant at all the schools you’re applying to. Honestly, you could probably get into Northwestern, UVA, and Georgetown RD. Your interest and involvement in politics will definitely give you an advantage in the Georgetown admissions pool.

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@iamverystressed2000 are you just saying that to chase away competition for ED at northwestern?

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Yeah, you got me! It’s going to come down to either me or another CC user for NU, so I scour the forum and give people false boosts of confidence to deter them from applying ED.

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@perspectivestude ^^

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But no, I’m truly impressed by OP’s work, and I genuinely think any of those schools would be lucky to have him.

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@iamverystressed2000 haha I do the same thing

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@iamverystressed2000 but you’ll get in. Don’t worry. Same with OP.