Chance me please :)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northwestern University
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<p>Hi everyone, I'm currently a junior in high school and I'm really excited for college admissions in the not too distant future. I took the formatting from the decisions thread to make it simple</p>

<p>Mechanical Engineering</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT: 33(expected)
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 4%
AP (place score in parenthesis):By graduation will take 11 AP classes (20 for honors & AP).</p>

<p>So far took two tests my sophomore year.
- sophomore year: AP Micro Econ (4) & AP US Government (4)
- junior year: AP Biology, AP English, AP US History, AP Calculus AB
- senior year: AP Physics C, AP Computer Science, AP Macro Econ, AP English, AP Psych</p>

<p>IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load:AP Physics C, AP Computer Science, AP Macro Econ, AP English, AP Psych, Honors Latin 4, Concert Choir, Leaders Gym
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing major really</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
by the end of senior year
- 4 years cross-country (co-captain) - Varsity, all-conference
- 3 years Math tutor (max years I could do it, as it starts from sophomore)
- 3 years bowling (sophomore, junior, senior) (not specifically assigned captain) - Varsity
- 2 years volleyball(freshman, sophomore)
- DECA (made it to state)
- Youth and Government
- 1 year swimming(freshman) (I don't think I'll put this on my resume)
- A bunch of other various clubs, but to be honest they don't really mean anything
Job/Work Experience: 12 Hours a week as a cashier at grocery store (promoted once)
Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer every summer at a hospital, roughly 150 hours in total
Summer Activities: Work, volunteer at hospital, and during one summer visit family in Europe
Essays: I feel as if I will put a lot of effort into them, and as a decent writer, I expect that they will be pretty good, but then again everyone thinks their essay is phenomenal.
Teacher Recommendation: one will be awesome from my AP Physics teacher, one will be my English teacher (is super nice), lastly one will be from my bowling coach who is also my gym leaders teacher.
Counselor Rec: one of the cross-country coaches, should be good.
Additional Rec:
Interview:</p>

<p>State (if domestic applicant): Illinois
Country (if international applicant): USA (was born in Europe, and no worries I am a permanent citizen)
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 80-90k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None really, but might help that I was not born here and I have no family (except some randoms I hardly know) that went to college in America.</p>

<p>Reflection
Strengths: Course rigor, percentile, upward trend
Weaknesses: GPA (3.75), some poor grades in math my freshman year, not being in AP Calc BC</p>

<p>General comments: Will also apply to
UIC, NIU (as my safety) , Carnegie Mellon, University of Wisconsin - Madison, IIT, UIUC, and Purdue</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>Nice GPA, shame about your ACT scores and ECs…</p>

<p>I would recommend you to take the ACTs again and I guess there is little you can do about your lack of ECs…</p>

<p>What could’ve been if you had just put a little bit more effort the first 2 years of highschool.</p>

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<p>Check out NU’s most recently published Common Data Set here: [2011-12</a> General Information, Common Data Set, University Enrollment - Northwestern University](<a href=“http://enrollment.northwestern.edu/common-data/2011-12/]2011-12”>http://enrollment.northwestern.edu/common-data/2011-12/), and chance yourself. Not trying to be a jerk, just suggesting that if you educate yourself, you don’t have to depend upon equally clueless people willing to share their lack of information.</p>

<p>For instance, you’ll find that your ACT score just misses the first quartile (although I’d consider taking an SAT, and then repeating the better of the two) and that ECs aren’t considered “very important,” merely “important.”</p>