<p>California Resident
3.6 UGPA
4.0000001 WGPA
2250 SAT (only taken once, 800 writing 730 reading 720 math)
34 ACT
4 Years Model UN, president Senior Year
4 Years Academic Decathlon, also president senior year
2 years of Robotics
3 yrs clarinet
3 years of Bassoon, first bassoon all 3
Will have 3 C, all in math. All C+. All depressing
National merit semi-finalist (should be finalist soon)
Ap Chem (4) APUS (4) AP Calc AB (4) AP Euro (4) AP World (5)
Currently taking AP Econ, AP Gov, Honors Physics, Ap Calc BC, APES, Regular english</p>
<p>Medical Procedure sophomore year, accounts for a C, and a bunch of B. Was out of school for 7 week.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>I applied CS, but not sure how admission work. Is it possible I'll be accepted to another program instead?</p>
<p>NEU will love your SAT, and your weighted GPA is still pretty decent, even with the medical issues. Northeastern’s really trying to make themselves into more than just a regional university, so being from out of state is to your advantage.
It also looks like you have some really good ECs and are a bunch of APs.
To be honest, I see absolutely no reason you wouldn’t be accepted. I think you’re either accepted to that program or your not accepted. I don’t think you’ll be accepted into a different program you didn’t apply to. But if you want to change your program after you’ve been accepted, you can probably do that.
Since you’re NM, you’re also looking at the full tuition NM scholarship and the Honors program. Unless your really screwed up somewhere (which you don’t seem to have), the scholarship is pretty much guaranteed if you’re NM, and it automatically comes with acceptance into the Honors program.
I’m also NM with Honors in my second year at NEU, with a CS minor. My experiences with CS have been really great so far.</p>
<p>Unless you have a major skeleton in your closet, you should get in and maybe even get a scholarship. Tell them about your medical procedure in the essay or send them an additional letter explaining how it affected you and how you overcame it. A candidate that can demonstrate how he or she overcame adversity is a stronger candidate IMO. Who cares if it negatively impacted your grades. It looks like you did well anyway, which is a bigger achievement that a super high GPA and nothing else. Extracurriculars are also very strong. Go for a full scholarship and honors. I think you have a good chance.</p>
<p>If you apply for a program/major, then they only consider you for that program/major. If you don’t get in, that’s it. There is no “second choice” like some schools have. </p>
<p>Once you’ve been accepted, you can petition to change your major and/or college. Most people manage to get it accepted so long as they do it before Orientation. After you start here it’s much harder to change colleges, although changing majors within a college is rather simple.</p>
<p>Appreciated. Didn’t get accepted first round, but I should be in further rounds, I’d think.</p>