<p>What's your GPA unweighted?</p>
<p>Really the only thing that scares meeee next year.):</p>
<p>HS or College? 3.8 either way.</p>
<p>Ah! That’s good! I have a 3.7ishh [freshman year first semester screw up with 3.5] and have been working up from there.):</p>
<p>D’s unweighted GPA was 3.92 for ED this year, ACT 33.</p>
<p>Ahhhhhhggggg… I got my practice back today, 32, hopefully it’ll improve by May.):</p>
<p>Don’t take too much from mine though- I went to one of the best HS’s in the country.</p>
<p>Well I go to one of the best in the state but does that mean that they’re more lenient? Because someone from my school with say a 4.0 in regulars classes works harder than someone in a neighborhood school with a 4.0.</p>
<p>D’s high school is… meh. ;-D</p>
<p>I would be sure that your ECs are very focused on your intended major, and ideally show some strong national recognition in that arena.</p>
<p>Your practice ACT at 32 is looking promising, and I do think NU considers an improving GPA very favorably (plus it sounds like they’ll know your HS is competitive) so keep up the great work and GOOD LUCK with your NU admission next year!!</p>
<p>I was admitted with a 3.5, but I went to one of the best high schools in my state, which typically sends quite a few (usually 10 or more) students a year to NU. I have a 3.6 now, after two quarters of freshman year.</p>
<p>My S is a freshman at NU. Two quarters in as an Integrated Science Program major (equal to if not a greater challenge than engineering) he sits at a 3.6.</p>
<p>When applying RD (from a reasonably ranked public HS in the LA area) he had a 3.92 UWGPA; SAT 2170; SAT II of 800, 710, 680); completed or in progress 10 AP level classes and two on line upper level math classes (linear algebra and multivariable calculus.)</p>
<p>His HS annually sends about 1-2 to Ivies/Stanford/MIT; 3-6 to schools like NU, JHU, Duke; 10-12 to USC, UCLA, UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>To clarify what I mean in the vein of above: In my HS class of ~330, there were (matriculated): </p>
<p>2 Yale
3 Harvard
3 Princeton
5 Dartmouth
6 Duke
6 Penn
13 Cornell</p>
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<p>Assume there were a few more admitted to each who chose to go elsewhere, and obviously I’m not remembering all of them, so the list should be longer. But those serve as “at leasts”.</p>
<p>People on CC tend to be like “Oh, my HS is SOOOOOO prestigious! It’s SOOOOO competitive” That may well be true in your state or even objectively, but your reputation as a feeder is far more important. The fact that my HS class was the strongest in my HS’s history was only marginally as important as the fact that that history included huge numbers of Ivy/Peer matriculations per year.</p>
<p>We had 15 going to NU, not sure how many got in… it just sucksss I could have probably gotten in from a easier high school in Chicago. Even Northside who is ranked one has it easier with a block schedule and a ten point scale for grades when we have a five point scale gr.</p>
<p>So if I have a 3.9 GPA and a 33 ACT and I come from a school where less than 30% of graduates go to college (none go to schools like Northwestern), and one of my recommendations elaborated on this, are my chances improved at all?</p>
<p>^^Perhaps. Or perhaps they’re worse. It really depends. Not to say it’s random (it’s not) but we don’t know the metrics.</p>
<p>My school has several people going to NU and Chicago but not as much to ivies… I think 1 person went to Harvard, 1 to princeton, and can’t remember the rest.</p>