<p>Please ignore my login name . . . while my D plays cello, she is most interested in MT.</p>
<p>D is a bright freshman, but is also very active in her theatre school, voice lessons, cello lessons, piano, dance, forensics. She definitely is inclined to overextend herself.</p>
<p>I have been trying to hold her back from taking too many challenging courses so she can maintain her level of commitment with extracurriculars and keep her GPA up.</p>
<p>As a freshman she has 3 honors courses. Next year, she’ll be taking 1 AP course, and 3 honors courses. I’d like her to limit herself to 2 APs in each of her junior and senior years. </p>
<p>Do you think this level of courses will make her competitive for NU ? After two semesters as a freshman she has an average of about 4.15.</p>
<p>I’m definitely not an NU admissions expert, so I’m not sure what the answer is… and it looks like no one else is sure either. </p>
<p>D is taking 4 AP classes her senior year (against mom’s urging that she cut back) and it seems to be working our just fine, but since she got in ED she didn’t end up missing as much school for auditions as we’d assumed she would, so I’m not sure that’s a good example. She did miss an unexpected week RIGHT before Finals for YoungArts, though.</p>
<p>It might be worth calling Undergraduate Admissions sometime and asking for their thoughts – or at least have a serious chat with her high school counselor.</p>
<p>It is so great that you are already on top of this in her freshman year!!</p>
<p>cello-mom, my son is a sophomore at NU and never took more than 2 APs a year. All the rest of his courses were honors, and he did a lot of extracurriculars, honor societies, community theater, community service, etc. His grades were excellent but not perfect (9th in a class of about 450). His SATs were very good and his ACT was better. I really get the impression that for theater, anyway, NU is looking for very bright, well-rounded, committed kids, not the most brilliant. I would venture to say you are on the right track, but the only way to be sure would be to speak with the admissions office. I’m sure they’re crazy there now since acceptances went out today, but if you call in a couple of weeks, I bet someone could take the time to talk to you.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input and advice.</p>
<p>My daughter seems to always get herself involved in too much and by third quarter (right now) she’s exhausted as a result. We are in a competitive school in pittsburgh and I’m sure she is in the top 10% of her class. Her friends are at the top of the class and she wants to be with them in the AP courses. I’m trying to keep her realistic about what is physically feasible!</p>
<p>I would like her to go to school someplace that is also top tier academically, i.e NU, NYU or CMU.</p>