Chances for Northwestern and Stanford

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am over with my first semester of Junior year.
My dream school is Stanford but I know its a huge reach so what about my chances for Northwestern??</p>

<p>White Female. Grew up in a low-income area where I was very much a minority if that makes any difference.</p>

<p>Huge upward trend in grades because I had penumonia my last semester of freshman year. That and I'm bad with spanish which is the only thing I've gotten a B in except for my 2nd semester of math because I was really sick during the final. </p>

<p>So here it goes so far: </p>

<p>Freshman: (3.75 uw)</p>

<p>Sophomore: (3.833 uw)</p>

<p>Summer Program:
Honors Pre-calc w/ Trig: A/A (not counted in GPA)</p>

<p>Junior: (4.0 w, 3.9 uw)
AP English: A-
AP Calc AB: A
International Relations Honors: A
Honors Debate: A
AP European Hist: (Taking this semester)
Spanish 3: A-
Chemistry: A</p>

<p>Summer Program (Taking this summer)
AP Statistics
AP Chemistry</p>

<p>Senior Year (Classes going to take)
AP Calc BC
AP World History
Modern Literature and the Arts (Honors)
Humanities (Honors)
Honors Philosophy
Honors Physics
Another P.E. credit & Comp Apps I (required to graduate)</p>

<p>APs Taken: Biology, Psych, Government (All 5s)
Before college taking: Calc AB and BC, English Lit & Comp, Chemistry, Statistics, European History, World History, and Spanish </p>

<p>ECs (Very weak)
National Honor Society (11-12)
Debate club (started 10th grade): Helped to create
Help start a youth sports league and am a very active member in the organization. Coach for 4 hours at least every day.
Volunteer at animal and senior citizen seniors a few hours a week during school and many more during summer.
Crew member for 3 plays
Part-time job.
I'm not sure if this counts but in middle school I participated in Future City competition and our city won a bunch of awards including a personal award for me for Best City For the Disabled. (Something I am proud of =])</p>

<p>I don't know my ACT or SAT scores yet but any ideas or advice?
Thank you =]</p>

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<p>It's hard to give you any sort of assessment (and these assessments are pretty meaningless anyhow) without test scores, knowing what sort of school you go to, and the like.</p>

<p>As for the rest of your stats, they're really good but not exceptional. Your courseload seems pretty rigorous and your grades are in range for both schools, although I don't know what your rank is. Your ECs are pretty standard except for the youth sports league, which seems pretty interesting. Do you have a hook?</p>

<p>Basically, if your rank and test scores are high, and your essays and recommendations are excellent, you should at least have a decent chance. Stanford is a reach for anyone, and so is Northwestern, to a lesser extent. Do you have a safety?</p>

<p>(Caveat: I'm a senior in high school. This is basically guesswork, since I don't know any more than you do.)</p>

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<p>Rank is 20 / 505
Huge public highschool. </p>

<p>My safety is St. Mary's College in Maryland.
I only want to go to Northwestern if I can get into the MMSS program, if not then I may go to Michigan State or apply for Michigan. (I am from Michigan.)</p>

<p>I did great on the PSATs (can't remember exact scores) and my PLAN test estimated my ACT to be in the 34-36 range. </p>

<p>My recommendations will be great since all of my teachers love me because I am the only person who knows what its like not to be rich like most of my fellow students are. (I live outside a rich city in the poor city but had school of choice.)</p>

<p>My hook is only the fact that I started a youth basketball league in a very low income area that I was lucky enough to get out of.</p>