Gpa

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northwestern University
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<p>Assume a typical good public school that offers a decent amount of honors / AP courses, but not in every subject offered by AP. (The basic languages, Amer and Eur history, Bio/Chem/Physics, Calc, you get the idea - but not the more specialized AP's). Assume the weighting system is such that an A in an honors class gets weighted to 5.0, a B to 4.0, and so forth.</p>

<p>What level of unweighted and weighted would you believe would be necessary to be reasonably competitive / worth applying to NU? Would the weighted GPA have to be over 4.0 to bother?</p>

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<p>Assume that the GPA is unweighted!</p>

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<p>I'm not sure what you're saying. Don't they look at both weighted and unweighted? In any case, what levels of both weighted or unweighted are the minimums to consider it worth applying?</p>

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<p>Look at the unweighted.
Assuming that the transcript has a substantial number of APs, and that it is generally the toughest curriculum offered where there are no APs, being well north of 3.7 is key (unless there is some other extraordinary quality, not being assumed here).
And frankly, a 3.7 would just make you competitive, but it would not impress. To impress, I would think being north of a 3.8 unweighted.
Northwestern gets a very strong applicant pool, and getting in is going to get even harder given that the number of applications have taken huge jumps two years in a row.</p>

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<p>Thanks, WCAS Parent. That is the type of response I was looking for.</p>

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<p>WCAS parent is giving you ideal numbers. In reality, no one can tell you because no one here knows how difficult your high school is.</p>

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<p>I said in my first thread typical good public school. I'll add some parameters. Vast majority are college bound, upper middle class school district, sends kids to top schools, but not a "top of the top" nationally renowned public like a New Trier.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/10/admission.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/10/admission.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>85% of the class were ranked in the top 10% of their class. The number for the year before was 83% when the average percentile was 94th. These are the stats of enrolled students. The numbers for admitted students are likely a little bit higher.</p>

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<p>How many people submitted their rank sam lee?</p>

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<p>Not sure about this year but 49% submitted their rank last year.</p>

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<p>hehe i've learned to take % in top 10% of class with a grain of salt ever since i learned that at most schools, less than 50% of the kids submit their rank =)</p>

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<p>there's also the fact that some schools do not HAVE rank, so it's not that people are 51% of the time choosing to hide their rank for the purposes of better admission chances (how could they when it's often on a transcript?)</p>