Chances at Northwestern

<p>Background:</p>

<p>Asian in CA attending school with average SAT of 1000
Economic Status: around 20k per year & 1st generation college-bound</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 (unweighted)
Class Rank: 1 or 2/380
SATI: 2120 - M 790, CR 670, W 660
SATII:
World History 800
United States History 790
MathIIC 750(predicted)
Physics 700(predicted)
AP:
AP World History 5
AP Calculus AB 5 (predicted)
AP US History 4 or 5 (predicted)
AP Physics 4 (predicted)
AP EnvSci 4 or 5 (predicted)
AP English Language & Composition 3 or 4 (predicted)</p>

<p>Major: Undecided</p>

<p>ECs:
JV Tennis 2 years
Science Olympiad 4 years
President in Key club 1 year
Member of Key club 3 years
~100 hours of community service (at hospital)
Computer tech/accounting internship over summer
CSF 4 years
NHS 1 year</p>

<p>Awards:
3 Science Olympiad regional medals</p>

<p>Other:
Essays & recommendations are solid</p>

<p>1 AP class sophmore year: AP World History
5 in junior year: AP Calc AB, AP English Lang, AP Physics B, AP Enviro Sci, AP US History
7 in senior year: AP Calc BC, AP English Lit, AP Physics C, AP Comp Sci A, AP Stats, AP French, AP Macro/Micro Econ</p>

<p>Taking most rigorous courseload in school. </p>

<p>What are my chances and what needs the most improving?</p>

<p>Oh ya, and instead of the predicted 700 on Physics, now (since I just took it) my predicted I think is 750 or above. Does this change anything?</p>

<p>Hey I think you've got a great shot. But I'm not a college admissions officer so I really don't know all that much. But I have a friend who got into NW. He's the laziest bum I know. The kid prolly did like only one extracurricular activity throughout his entire high school career. Let's not even talk about leadership. I'm sure his test scores were at least decent. He's actually really really smart and rather intellectual, just really lazy. I know I prolly wouldn't have gotten thru AP Physics without him. What got him into NW was most likely his essays. His essays must've been amazing, like rock your socks off amazing. People write good essays and they may be memorable, but they're not all necessarily rock your socks off amazing. And NW really gives you a lot a room to express yourself in its like 4 short answers and 1 long essay and 1 abstract and the likes. However, I have heard that NW is taking the common app this year, which might give less room to express yourself via essays. However, the common app would be so much easier. Besides, you can always recycle your essays for Brown.</p>

<p>you're in, based solely on the number of APs you're taking (I'm assuming you at LEAST get Bs in all of them)</p>