Chances at Northwestern M.M.S.S ED or UChicago EA?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys, so my dilemma is that I cannot figure out whether I should apply ED to Northwestern or if I also have a GOOD chance at admission to UChicago. I LOVE both schools, but would be devastated to not get into one of them. Anyways what are my chances? And thanks, if you chance I will also chance you!</p>

<p>SAT: 2210 (CR: 740 Math: 750 Writing: 720) (Should I retake?)
ACT: 31 (Bad, will retake hoping for 34+, would think I will get)</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 4.0</p>

<p>Courseload: All honors/AP's Fresh and Soph
Only AP's Junior
Mixture of only AP's and sophmore/junior level college classes at university Senior Year</p>

<p>Academic Awards:</p>

<p>National AP Scholar
High Honor Roll
Highest GPA on Varsity Team Award all 4 years </p>

<p>(^^^^^^weak here)</p>

<p>EC's:</p>

<p>Varsity Hockey 4 years (might be captain)
co founder of economics club
co founder and coach econ challenge team (don't qualify for competing since I take college level econ I guess)
youth Leadership program run by City</p>

<p>Econ research internship at university- working on a research project hopefully will get published</p>

<p>Detassling for 2 years</p>

<p>Community service:</p>

<p>Gone to 3rd world country (dont want to give too much away on internet forum)
Mentor at elementary for 3 years
Mission Trip at church for 4 years</p>

<p>Sorry for bad formatting and grammar etc. Thanks for your time and understand this is a rough outline but I would hope this can give you a good enough idea to give me some advice!</p>

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<p>Hey!! Your app as a whole looks okayish well-rounded.</p>

<p>I’ll start with scores. Your gpa looks good! So does your courseload. It would help if you posted your rank and the kind of school you attend. If you’re one of the top few kids at a competitive high school with lots of kids, you are definitely solid! Push up your ACT, if you can push that up you don’t really need to retake your SAT. 2210 is plenty fine.</p>

<p>Your awards and ec’s aren’t very plentiful. I would assume that your ec’s are pretty intensive then? Better focused than a laundry list :slight_smile: Either way, play up your ec’s to the best of your abilities. Mention them in your essays, what have you done to revolutionise your organisation etc :D</p>

<p>Nothing wrong with your community service, and I get your reticence in sharing definitely :smiley: But don’t play it up too much, it’s been mentioned far too often as essay material. </p>

<p>You didn’t mention your intended major. So I can’t really comment on whether your ec’s have any link, normally people try to link their ec’s to their intended major, youknow? What I can say is if you’re looking into education, then your mentorship at elementary level and coaching the econs team and youth leadership would be a definite bonus :D</p>

<p>Just a note: Uchicago is notorious for weighting their essays. I’m applying EA this year too, and the prompts are definitely tough, so your essay really needs to stand out yeah :)</p>

<p>Otherwise, good shot :D</p>

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