<p>I am looking for reach, safety, and match schools. I am planning on studying Journalism and International Relations. </p>
<p>I just completed my first semester of junior year. I have yet to take the SAT, which I will do in March. However, I currently have an unweighted GPA of 3.498 and a weighted GPA of 3.6234. If all goes well, I should have an UW GPA of 3.749 and a W GPA of 3.949. I am a first-generation student as well as an Under-Represented Minority.</p>
<p>With that said, I am proud of my extracurriculars and awards/achievements and will have a USC professor write one of my letter of recommendations (I'm her Sociological Research Assistant/Intern). Hopefully that will help somewhat.</p>
<p>My reach/dream school is Northwestern.</p>
<p>Do any of you know of any other good schools that excel in journalism and/or international relations?</p>
<p>Also, if you don't think my GPA alone will help me, feel free to let me know if any SAT/ACT scores will elevate my chances of getting accepted to any of the reach schools.</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>