CHANCES?Uchicago?Northwestern?

Applying to College
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<p>I want to major in econ at either Uchicago or Northwestern, what are my chances?
competetive high school in illinois.
Gpa 3.88 unweighted
5.64 weighted
4/496 (tons of ap classes)
Ap world history
Apush
Ap euro
ap gov
ap econ
ap calc ab
ap calc bc
ap eng 11
ap eng 12
ap psych
ap spanish
ap human
apes
all 4s and 5s plus 4years of honors spanish</p>

<p>Extra curriculars:
Started philosophy club freshman year
member of said club for 4 years
speech team 4 years (went to state
deca 3 years
tennis 4 years (JV/Varsity 2 years each)
scholastic bowl 1 year
NHS
volunteer work at hospital over the summer 50 hours total</p>

<p>act score 34
sat 2260</p>

<p>and i am a good writer so i figure that i can write good essays, that's especially a factor at uchicago</p>

<p>also a minority (indian) how much will that help me?</p>

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<p>Your ethnicity is not underrepresented at any of these schools. You are not a minority.</p>

3

<p>in my opinion, you have good chances- at least for NU. i don’t know about uchicago</p>

4

<p>reallly? i was under the impressions that northwestern was harder to get into than uchicago</p>

5

<p>Decent chances at NW but Chicago is a reach school for you. </p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>i was originally planning on uchicago econ, how’s nw’s econ program?</p>

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<p>pretty good.</p>