Chances at Harvard

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northwestern University
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<p>Hahahah, just kidding. What do you think my chances are at Northwestern? </p>

<p>White female from MN, parents make <60,000/yr
GPA UW: 4.0 (not weighted)
Rank: 1/550
SATs: 2280 (720 M, 760 CR, 800 WR).
SATIIs: 780 Spanish, 750 Lit. Unsure of third one to take, prob. US History</p>

<p>Extra-curriculars</p>

<p>Varsity soccer 9-12 (top team in district for 12 years, but have never gotten past first level of State...inner-city school and all can't compete with suburbs in terms of sports)
Club soccer top-level since age 8 (captain)
Newspaper editor 11-12
Volunteer coach of mid-level Spanish-speaking girls' soccer team
Volunteer with literacy program for Spanish-speaking preschoolers (my biggest source volunteer hours...somewhere around 350 for two summers)
Big Sister (Spanish speaking "little sister" o'course)
Accepted as intern at top independent publishing house this summer (as rising senior)
National Honors Society Vice-President
Volunteer for a program that gets teenage mothers involved in poetry/spoken word readings</p>

<p>Awards</p>

<p>National Merit Finalist
Youth journalism award for article, paper I edit
Scholastic Art and Writing Gold Award Short Story (national level)
Applying for Davidson Fellowship (maybe a slim chance, I think?)</p>

<p>My passion (I hope it shows through my extracurriculars) are writing and Spanish (I skipped three years of Spanish: second, fifth, and sixth. I am not a native speaker.) I've been trying to follow them..</p>

<p>Sophomore schedule:
AP English (5)
AP Spanish (4)
AP US History (5)
Honors Chemistry
Honors Algebra II
Spanish IP</p>

<p>Junior Schedule:
College-in-the-schools Economics
Writing class at University of Minnesota
Advanced Spanish Communication at University of Minnesota
Honors Physics
Honors Pre-Calc
Newspaper
Self-study Spanish Lit (plan on 4, 5)</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Calc AB
AP Environmental Sci
English class at Macalaster (top college in my state w/ Carleton)
Social Studies class at U of M (unsure which)
AP Psych
Spanish class at U of M
Newspaper</p>

<p>The lack of APs junior year was due to the fact that my school only offers limited AP classes. AP Psych will not be offered until next year, and the only AP I didn't take was chemistry (we have just six). Spanish lit was not offered and I studied it all on my own.</p>

<p>For my essays I'm planning on writing about an article I did for my school newspaper junior year about teenage parents at my school, less about the academic journey and more about the personal journey I took bonding with the moms and how it made me more confident as a writer, stuff like that.</p>

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<p>You're in as far as your stats go. Make sure you put a good effort in your essay and you'll be fine. :)</p>

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<p>You made the thread in the wrong section! ;)</p>

<p>haha just kidding!</p>

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<p>great chances..!</p>

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<p>Thanks.</p>

<p>I figured this subject line would get a lot of attention. :)</p>

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<p>I'll see you in a year or so :)</p>

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<p>yeah, it definitely gets attention but in a quite intriguing manner! u really don't need attention at a certain college section I should say!</p>

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<p>rejected at harvard....northwestern is a high reach. You might want to get that Math score up.</p>

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<p>NU is NOT a high reach for her...</p>

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<p>Not to be the person who doesn't listen to any negative chances, raccna, but I'm not going to take you seriously until you give me some reasons as to why Northwestern is a "high reach."</p>

<p>Anyway, everybody else, I appreciate it. Feel free to add in suggestions if you have any too. :)</p>

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<p>I had a math score of 710 and I got in.</p>

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<p>i would say u have good chances plus 720 on math is not bad
just write a decent essay ;)</p>

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<p>I was joking guys. My post was supposed to read "Accepted at harvard, Northwestern is a high reach"...which would be ridiculous and an obvious joke. The fact that i said you might want to get your 720 Math score up was also ridiculous enough to give it away..lol.</p>

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<p>Oh. Phew, I was wondering what was going on. Ignore my PM then. :) </p>

<p>Hahahah. It would have been funny if it had said "accepted." "Rejected" just made me go...uh oh. </p>

<p>Yeah, I'm not neurotic :)</p>

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<p>you'll totally get in! is it your top choice? i am from mn too yay.
i am going to NU next year btw.</p>