<p>White female from MI - chance for engineering</p>
<p>3.7 UW GPA (all honors/AP; brought down by freshman)</p>
<p>35 ACT (35 E 36 M 33 R 35 S 10 essay)</p>
<p>Editor in Chief of yearbook; inner-city relief work leader; Robotics; Forensics (speech); ski/tennis teams; freshman mentoring program; NHS</p>
<p>various community service-/ Forensics-/ academic-related awards</p>
<p>Great essays/recs</p>
<p>Thanks!!!</p>
<p>Answer – Short and Sweet</p>
<p>Above average.</p>
<p>A woman applying to the Engineering school with those ACT scores will be a strong candidate. A 3.7 GPA is hardly overwhelming at NU, but the fact that your curriculum is all honors and APs (assuming that it’s not all the “softer” APs, which I doubt) should be in good shape, especially when then see that the “down” year was your freshman year (which presumably means that your junior year grades are excellent).
Keep up the good work (and grades) in the first term of your senior year and Good Luck!</p>
<p>Yay! Thanks. </p>
<p>My APs are Physics C, Calc BC, US History, European History, English Language, English Literature, French, and Government. I’ve taken all Honors when available (in the lower grades, before the AP courses were offered in the subjects).</p>
<p>The last 2 trimesters of junior year were ALL As.</p>
<p>zephyr, above average for your standard NU applicant? Or anybody?</p>
<p>Above average chance for admission (probably considerably so) for a woman applying to NU Engineering (and many other engineering schools in the same tier). </p>
<p>BTW, your stats are similar to my D’s – she’ll be attending McCormick next year.</p>
<p>you’ll get in.</p>
<p>Even with my 3.7?</p>
<p>Being a female who is interested in engineering helps a lot as well, since you are considered a minority. I’m a female who is attending McCormick this year, and your stats are MUCH more impress than mine. I got a 33 ACT and took the only AP class offered at my school. A 3.7 UW shouldn’t be too much of a problem if most of it was from freshman year. Just make sure you write a kick-butt essay sincerely explaining why you want to go to Northwestern. Good luck! :)</p>
<p>^ Ahhh thanks! What was your GPA? do you think bad Biology grades (frosh year) will have much of an impact for engineering?..or would you say Chem/Physics is what they care about more for McCormick?</p>
<p>I had a 3.99 UW, but then again all the AP’s and honors you took makes it understandable for you to have a slightly lower GPA. I think your class ranking says a lot more about you than your GPA does because of this difference.</p>
<p>I don’t think biology has an impact on engineering whatsoever. I think physics and mathematics and the most important for engineering, but I’m not an admissions counselor so I guess I don’t know that for sure, but I’m pretty certain.</p>
<p>Oh did you not take all honors and APs? And actually, my school doesn’t rank…</p>
<p>My school doesn’t offer honors and AP’s. The closest we have is AP Calculus, but no one gets college credit for it because it’s not really legit.</p>
<p>Oh hahaha gotcha. Well congrats on NU!!! Seriously I’d love to be in your shoes!</p>
<p>Thanks! And good luck to you! Hope to see you here next year!</p>
<p>I hope so too! Did you happen to get a scholarship at all, being a girl in engineering?</p>
<p>Haha nope, none. Northwestern doesn’t offer many scholarships. They offer a lot of grants though, but I didn’t get any of those either</p>
<p>Ughhh I’m scared FA (or a lack of it) will hold me back :(</p>
<p>Yeah I am expected to pay about 60,000 dollars total each year, but the quality of the education seemed more important to me than the amount of years it would take to pay off my loans. I’m hoping the engineering programs here will actually allow me to be more profitable in the long run.</p>
<p>Yeah plus co-ops!!! And I mean you’ll likely have a job lined up for you once ya graduate so yeah. The hard part for me will be selling NU to my parents when I’m in-state for Michigan engineering.</p>