Is Northwestern a fit for me?

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<p>hello all.
I am a caucasian rising senior in high school in NY.</p>

<p>I want to early decision to Northwestern to study economics and hopefully go into investment banking.</p>

<p>I would say I am in the top 10 of a class of 300 in a competitive high school.
I had a 720 on CR. 700 on M which is a 1420.
I also got a 800 on my SAT II for World History, and I got a 800 on my SAT II in U.S History, a 780 on Chem and a 710 on Math I.</p>

<p>I have 99.3 GPA weighted average and over a 97 average without the weight.</p>

<p>These are list of my accomplishments:</p>

<p>HONORS:</p>

<p>Honor Roll(all years)
Science Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society
National Honor Society
All AP Honor Student</p>

<p>Accomplishments:
Key Club Treasurer 2011-2012
Student Government Senator- 2009-2013
Model Congress- Chairman of Judiciary Committee 2011-2013
Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA):
Long Island – 1st place –Banking & Financial Systems 2011
New York State FBLA Convention – 2nd place- Banking & Financial Systems 2011
New York State FBLA Convention – 3rd place- Business Law 2011
Orlando, Florida- FBLA National Convention 2011- participant in Banking & Financial Systems and Stock Market competitions
Long Island – 2nd place – Banking & Financial Systems 2012
Delegate- FBLA- New York State and National conventions 2011
National Spanish Exam- freshman year- Honorable Mention 2010,
Sophomore Year- Bronze 2011, junior year- Honorable Mention 2012
Stock Market Chairman of my school FBLA-2012-2013
Student of the Month in Business Jan 2012</p>

<p>WORK:
Science researcher at Weill- Cornell Medical College, New York, N.Y 2011.
Summer Intern at Cornell ILR School conducting economics research 2012.</p>

<p>School: I am in all honors/AP. I took AP World (5), AP US History (5), AP Chem (4) and AP English Language and Composition (5).
Senior Year I plan on taking AP Psychology, AP Calculus AB, AP Gov't, AP Macroecnomics, AP Spanish and AP English Literature.</p>

<p>I also plan on getting great recommendation leaders from my Accounting teacher who also runs FBLA in my school and my AP US History Teacher and AP English Teacher.</p>

<p>Also..... how does the kellogg business school certificate program work.</p>

<p>Additionially, I visited the campus and took a tour.</p>

<p>I hope you guys give me honest feedback and do not be too cruel lol. ALSO I WILL NOT BE RETAKING ANY TESTS!!!! =)</p>

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<p>Well, for the record, I would suggest getting your SAT score up just a bit, and studying to get a high score on the Math II, because it can’t hurt. Your GPA is excellent, and you have a lot of AP 5s, so I’m not as adamant about that as I’d be if you had some other problems there.</p>

<p>There’s a lot of stuff here related to investment banking, etc., but make sure to talk about your other accomplishments, too–don’t want to seem like a one-trick pony.</p>

<p>Academics look just fine.</p>

<p>Good that you visited campus, there’s a section with check boxes where you mark off all the ways you interacted with the school. Meet up with college reps in your area, if possible… it can’t hurt, huh?</p>

<p>As I understand it, the Kellogg undergrad certificates are like this: you fill a pretty extensive set of prereqs to be eligible for the program, then you fill out an application to one of the programs, Financial Economics and Managerial Analytics. Look 'em up on their website if you’re curious about what those two entail. Then you take certain required classes, and choose a few other classes from a list of possibilities, all within the Kellogg School. Then if you complete the program, it’s noted on your transcript. You don’t get an extra bit of paper or anything.</p>

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<p>As a rule, because if you’re smart enough to get into NU, or want to get into NU, you’re smart enough to realize what an exercise in futility chance threads truly are - only an AdCom can give you the answer you want.</p>

<p>That said, IMHO, you are an ED locky lock lock*.</p>

<p>Buy purple.</p>

<ul>
<li>See first rule</li>
</ul>

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<p>The only people who know your chances are the NU Adcoms, and the only time when they know your chances are when they are staring at your file in the context of all of the other students they have evaluated to date. Sorry. You’ve got as much chance as anyone else.</p>

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<p>Generally speaking, you are good enough to get in, but are not overwhelmingly strong.
That being said, you are the type of applicant who might have a better shot ED than RD, but see the two posts above, which are correct about the validity of “chances” threads.</p>

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<p>Your credentials are great but typical (caucasian econ major from NYC). Unfortunately, that alone can hold you back. I agree with your assessment that you should apply ED. I have seen stronger profiles rejected in the regular round.</p>

<p>Btw, it’s great that you visited. Include some of the sights and sounds/general impressions you got from your visit in your Why Northwestern essay.</p>

<p>If you do not have a hook, ED is the best hook you can have at this point.</p>

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<p>By the way I put in over 200 hours at Weill Cornell when I worked there. Additionally, does anyone know if NU does well for placement at investment banks with an econ degree? Thanks all.</p>

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<p>Overall – Your application looks competitive, and your stats will fit right in with the admitted class. However, NU has a 15-16% admissions rate, and rejects many highly qualified candidates. ED will help. You should definately apply. I don’t think anyone can say more.</p>

<p>For investment banks - undergrad, I’d probably consider going with the certificate program at Kellogg in conjunction with your degree. At the end of the day, the MBA is the working degree for many of the major institutions.</p>