Help with chances/advice Northwestern ED

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I know I have posted before, but I have some new questions and I need some advice. But first, stats

Applying ED to Northwestern… to Medill for Broadcast Journalism. Here are the stats.

GPA: Above 4.0 UW, 4.5 Weighted. No B’s in high school
Classes: 2 honors- Freshman (no APs available),
3 honors and AP US1 Sophomore- (1 AP available),
AP Lit, AP US2, AP Environmental Science, AP Macro, AP Psych, Honors Latin- Junior (and Academic Calc, but not interested in math and already a year ahead of most kids)
AP Lit, AP Physics , AP Micro, AP Prob/stat , AP Euro History, AP Computer Science or Gov pol ( haven’t decided) Honors Latin,

Took 3 classes over the summer over my high school years.

SAT- Math- 740 Writing- 780 Reading- 650 — TOTAL- 2170

ECs- Habitat for Humanity 4 years, Television station 4 year (Freshman year-technical director and control room worker for 3 shows a week in our high school, Soph/Junior/Senior sports anchor), Newspaper (Contributer 4 years, sports editor Sophomore, Editor in Chief Junior and Senior), National Honors Society, Latin Honors Society, History Honors society, (leadership position all 3), started a tutoring program to help kids in elementary schools with their work (founder/president) Visited the school every week to help out.

Attended advanced sports broadcasting camp and at the camp hosted own 10-minute sports show. Ran by two leading figures in broadcasting industry

Interest in school: Summer program and Medill, tour at the campus, great interview

Recommendations: From 1 outside of school- big figure in the broadcasting industry- fantastic, Lit/Newspaper- fantastic, ----both 10/10s

Volunteered in the Dominican Republic the summer before junior year to help the locals rebuild home, create better living arrangements, and integrate the English language and American culture to the underprivileged locals.

Summer Video Journalism Class at Harvard

Sent picture of myself in Northwestern sweatshirt to space and got footage of it!

Intern at National Swim meet freshman year, published on the biggest swimming website in the world.

Contacted by Cartoon Network for some of my broadcasting work

Awards- National Latin Exam highest possible award all four years.

White, from Public school. No financial aid requested.

Essay- Was a work of art- 10/10

Concerns: Is SAT reading too low especially for Medill? Or can the relevant and great ECs overlook that along with no Bs in 12 AP classes and a near perfect score in writing because after all Medill is a journalism school?
I’m a sophomore but those are my sats after taking it 3 times… If NU superscores is there really harm in taking them again??
Also, i could always take the new sat because the current sophomores are the only ones that can submit either one. But I don’t know how that would work because then technically I would have taken the sats like 6 or 7 times, half in one format half in another. I’ve been working my whole life for Medilll and I would hate for something stupid like taking the sats that many times would get me rejected. But I don’t know if I decided to go with the new version if they would even see my old. I’m freaking out and I won’t be able to take this until December of 2016 when I would find out
Chance me with advice
THANKS

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Step 1 - Relax
Step 2 - Call AdCom / admittance office and ask your questions about testing.
Step 3 - Stop with Chance Threads because only AdCom can give you a correct answer.

BTW - I think you are a superstar and a shoe-in- but I’m not an adcom… But I am a parent of 2 NU kids, so I wish you good luck!

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Stats look amazing as I’m sure your aware, with your only minor problem being the SAT. I DON’T think your school will hurt your admissions at all ED as NU is fairly holistic in there admission and they’re not going to drive you crazy over one test score given everything else is amazing. If your still worried about it and since you have another year, you could try to take prep class for the SAT and retest at the beginning of the school year which could help. You’d also be surprised how much a few more months of school can help improve your score also (remember these tests are normed so if you take it senior year with more knowledge it works really well in your favor). Alternatively, you may want to take the ACT once and see how you do, though the science portion can be a headache if your used to the SAT (plus there’s two english sections).

Since you have the time I’d try to improve your test score, but really you have close to a perfect application so I wouldn’t worry to much. Nice job-- good luck!

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I’m confused - you say you are a sophomore so you can take the SAT many more times, but you have ECs for Junior and Senior year, and you have already taken 12 APs, written your essay and gotten recommendations? How is that possible?

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I had the same confusion :wink: