<p>Academic:
4.43 weighted GPA--bad freshman year because of undiagnosed ADHD, but 4.7 since then
all honors classes
project lead the way participant--high school pre-engineering classes
36 ACT comp
770 SAT math, 800 reading, 800 writing</p>
<p>EC:
started music charity sophomore year to help inner-city students learn band/orchestral instruments
swimming four years, soph/jun/sen varsity
baseball three years, jun/sen varsity
french club four years
scholastic bowl four years, soph/jun/sen varsity, jun/sen captain
school newspaper staff member, junior sports editor, senior editor in chief
marching band member four years, drum major sen year
band member four years, top band for soph/jun/sen years
jazz band member four years
all-state jazz saxophone jun/sen years</p>
<p>I’m not entirely sure what there is to say, or why you might be at all concerned you won’t get in. What’s your unweighted GPA?</p>
<p>I don’t see any reason they’d bat an eyelash at letting you in, unless they really want hundreds of hours of volunteer work, but you’ve got plenty of leadership and dedicated EC’s to balance it if they do.</p>
<p>thank you both so much. my unweighted is a 3.55 because two non-honors classes were taken pass/fail all four years, and i recieved a’s in gym, health, oral communication, and consumer ed. i’ve just been afraid since my freshman year when adjusting to high school was a major struggle, but i’ve been able to survive these last two years without much of a problem.</p>
<p>Well, a 3.55 unweighted is underwhelming for NU (and you are right, gym, health, oral communication and the other classes you list should not have been included in your GPA, and it is your unweighted GPA that they’ll care about), but your board scores are fabulous (any AP scores yet?) and your ECs are diverse and solid. I think you are a pretty strong candidate. Good luck!</p>