<p>Freshmen year uw/w: 2.00 gpa, my brother had cancer so I missed ALOT of school, pretty much nothing else happened
Sophomore year: 3.75 gpa uw/w, won best biology student, best history student, best English student, played varsity tennis. Started a very well received comedy show on my schools bulletin, won a tri-county biology contest, volunteered for 30 hours at an aids food bank. The uw gpa was low because I was taking two maths to catch up with myself and I had to learn algebra and geometry in 1 semester
Junior 4.0 uw, 4.4 w: took 3 APs and an accelerated, ran varsity cross country, v track (I realized I love running like crazy), won best physics/apUS hist student, most fluent Spanish student. was the ap ush representative for leadership, became a safe school ambassador (a bully fighting program), volunteered approx 100+ hours total at the free teen clinic (a position I unfortunately had to miss my homecoming to train for).
That summer I took precalc and Spanish 3
Senior: 4.0 uw, 4.6 w: senior class president, 60 more hours at the teen clinic, a humanitarian trip to Nicaragua. Another year of cross country and track
Since sophomore year I've been a scholar athlete, and have continued my comedy show (the school actually gave me a period for it)
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The big issue I see is that even with these accounted for, it still comes to a hs gpa of 3.65, which I'm not sure is top 10%
I'm a scholastic honors graduate with 30 tutor hours
My teacher recs are friggin insane</p>
<p>“My teacher recs are friggin insane”
I lold</p>
<p>oh, and id be applying ED</p>
<p>…your chances are much better than mine, haha! Good luck, and I hope things worked out with your brother!</p>
<p>they did, thank god, thanks! good luck to you to. anyone else?</p>
<p>It’s abbreviated NU, not NWU. Northwestern = one word.</p>
<p>Sam:</p>
<p>By all accounts, there is a good and valid reason why your Freshman grades were not representative of your ability. Most of the top schools use a holistic approach to applications. In other words, it’s not strictly by the numbers.</p>
<p>One would hope and expect that under such an approach, you would be judged on your excellent soph and jr years. </p>
<p>The question you ask is to what extent NU does this?</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t know. I think this is something you need to discuss with your GC, and that you may want to set up a meeting (phone call) with a NU admissions officer. Nothing wrong with talking about this, especially since they really can’t miss noticing your freshman year.</p>
<p>I think that overall,you will be fine and largely evaluated based on your later accomplishments. Good luck!!!</p>
<p>alright, cool, thanks alot! i plan on doing an interview, i hope thatll help me out somewhat</p>