<p>White Female from Michigan
12/521 (I believe.) Somewhat competitive school.
Both parents went to college but never graduated.</p>
<p>GPA (Don't know which Stanford uses)
Fresh-Junior UW- 3.89 W-4.03 (Sick 2nd semester of fresh yr... grades suffered, 3 b's)
Soph-Junior UW-3.96 W- 4.17</p>
<p>ACT- 33</p>
<p>AP Classes (including next year's)
Calc AB
Calc BC
European History
World History
English (Lit and Comp)
Chemistry</p>
<p>AP Tests: All of the above plus Psychology (5), Biology (5), Government (5), Statistics, and Spanish.</p>
<p>Recs: Teachers: Great. All of my teachers love me.
Counselor: Don't know because it'll be a new counselor next year. Which is good because mine hated me for some reason.</p>
<p>ECs (weak)
Debate Club (10th-12th)
Model UN (11-12). Many trips to Model UN at U Mich.
National Honor Society (11-12)
Basketball (9. Injury, could only do city sports after.)
City Sports (Basketball, softball, volleyball, swimming)- 11 years.
Volunteer Coaching- 5 years. 3 teams a year for inner city kids. 3 hours at least a day. g
Well over 300 hours of community service (Not something I kept track of =[)
Basketball Referee- 2 years. 6 Hours every weekend.
Volunteer Umpire- 3 summers.
Part-time Job.
2 summers at CTD program at Northwestern.
Piano 6 years. Self-taught but never did any concerts or anything. Just entertained children at my community center at an after-school program.
One strange fact: Technically I am an plumbing apprentice. I could get my journeyman's before I go to college. Hey, women plumbers get paid at lot of money. =] Haha.</p>
<p>I am looking to major in psychology or sociology. Want to go on to law so I can go on to do something in children's rights.</p>
<p>"GPA (Don't know which Stanford uses)"</p>
<p>Hm...</p>
<p>Haha. I copied it for 3 threads and didn't realize it said that. My friend set up this account for me and I told her what I did and she entered me. The first one she set up was Stanford's and told me to copy it for the threads I wanted. It won't let me edit either or else I would.</p>
<p>Match/slight reach. How's your math? MMSS is rigorously math oriented.</p>
<p>I'm great in math. I'll finish with BC calc, would have finished with AB but I tested out of pre-calc. Assuming I'll get 5s on the APs, hopefully =]...</p>
<p>You can get a 4 and still test out of math courses at NU. Also, AP scores aren't supposed to have any weight in college decisions...they're supposedly just for testing out of courses, thereby potentially saving tons of money.</p>
<p>By the way, great job on those APs. Last year, I stunk it up, because I only studied like two days beforehand...so I got a 3 on Eng. Comp., a 3 on US History, and a 5 on Statistics.</p>
<p>You seem headed in the right direction! =]</p>
<p>Those aren't weak EC's. This is why CC ****es me off. Over 300 hours of service+others=strong EC's.</p>
<p>bearcats, it's the Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences program. See their [url=<a href="http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/%5Dwebsite%5B/url">http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/]website[/url</a>] for more details.</p>
<p>Sorry... I meant weak compared to others. I like my ECs so I don't care what colleges think.</p>
<p>Does anybody know how competitive it is to get in? The website isn't very helpful =[.</p>
<p>but you don't know what the admissions people are looking for.</p>
<p>You do what you do for 4 years, you apply to the best of your ability, you do the best you can on your tests and then you wait to see if you are what they are looking for.</p>
<p>Hopefully, they can detect something unique about you that will complement their freshman class/the university.</p>
<p>Your ECs are great (I have the same thing as you about ECs...come on! What's up with that).</p>
<p>You just have to wait now. Go read a book for pleasure, go call a friend and go for a walk, go to a movie. Get your mind off of this. Time passes as it does - one second at a time - and there's nothing you can do but wait until the decisions are released. Don't put your life on hold until then.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Haha and I can now add Thespian to the list although I don't know how helpful that is. I can't relax yet, I still have to apply, I'm only a junior lol. The stats for ECs and this semester are projected.</p>
<p>From what I heard, MMSS, like ISP, isn't too difficult to get in like HPME. What I mean is you don't have 1000+ applicants for 30 slots. On the other hand, the intensity of the curriculum will eventually weed out those who can't handle it (especially for ISP) within the first couple quarters.</p>
<p>Ahh, I feel better then. Thank you.</p>
<p>I know a guy with a 3.8 GPA from his freshman year at Northwestern who applied to MMSS for sophomore entry and hot rejected.</p>
<p>did he apply as a freshman too or just sophmore?</p>
<p>For sophomore entry. Not sure if he applied before that.</p>