<p>I am a junior in a private college prep school in nj.
My acumalitve GPA is 2.8 but that is due to a bad freshman year, last year my GPA was a 3.5 and the end of the year and this year for the first marking period i got a 3.0 and i hope to end up with around a 3.5 again this year. My freshman GPA was a low 2.somthing (i forget what it was).
I just took the PSAT and got a 1570 out of 2400.
My school does not rank students.
Im taking all main stream courses but I might be able to take AP Bio next year(depends on how i finish in physics)
I am an active member in about 5 school clubs.</p>
<p>Here are my question:
1. Do I have a good shot at getting accepted if I was able to finish with around a 3.5 GPA this year
2. Is there anyone that you might now that has been accpted with a similiar record as mine.
3. My dad is good friends with the President of my school and with a few other high ranking people in the addministration and I will likely ask them to write my letters of recomendation, does it look good that the President of my school wrote me a letter?
4. I am new to the whole SAT thing and i was just wondering what would be a strong score that would put me in good contention to get into not only Northeastern but other competative schools in the country?
5. What type of resume would be stronge enough to get someone into NorthEastern University? (obvioulsy all AP and perfect SAT's would be the best, but from looking at my info a the top of the post, what are some realalistic goals I could try to reach that would give me a really good chance at getting in.)</p>
<p>If anyone can answer any of these questions it would really help me alot.</p>
<p>P.S. - sorry about any typos im typing this pretty fast, lol</p>
<p>NEU, as well as every other school this year, are being very strange with their admissions. It's extremely hard to point what aspects will matter and which one. As far as SATs, I got in with a 91 GPA and a 1920, but my friend from my school got in with a 93 GPA and a 1640 on his SATs. It's really hard to tell what matters to college this year. Kids way under me have gotten accepted, and kids way above me have gotten deferred. It's hard to understand what the college is looking for. My heart goes out to you for applying to college next year. I don't even wanna imagine how crazy it'll be. Hope I could help.</p>
<p>Typically GPA and rigor of hs coursework are more important considerations than SATs; what were your V/M breakdowns? (I don't think they are paying much attention to the Writing scores yet). Also keep in mind that in the case of Northeastern in particular, they are trying to increase their rankings, selectivity and SAT score requirements; at the same time, up until just a few years ago they were clearly a safety school with lower overall requirements, so they cannot just focus on the top applicants since many of them are still applying as a safety and will not end up attending. Likewise they are trying to increase racial and especially geographic diversity and may appear to offer better/different deals to attract different types of applicants based on diversity issues. They cannot as easily rely on statistics from previous years to predict which accepted students will actually attend, compared to other similarly ranked schools because they changed their long-term goals just a couple of years ago to focus on increasing their rankings (for instance, SAT averages have increased well over 100 points in just 4 years). I think this is partly why they seem so unpredictable in who they are accepting, and in the merit awards they are giving out.</p>
<p>@ Luckedoutirish13........ since you go to NEU you prolly will know this, does NEU offer a pre-med major, b/c i would really like to try and go to med school after college so i want to go to a college that i can take pre-med as a major so it will prepare me the best for when i wana apply to med school</p>
<p>i got deferred. my GPA went 2.4 to 2.7 to 3.4 (2.8 overall) my SATs were 1810 (600 CR 630 M 580 W) and i had insane ECs, 1300 hours of volunteer theatre work, and a really good essay and good recommendations</p>
<p>just thought you should know if that helps because we're in kind of similar situations.</p>
<p>I was in a similar situation and was just accepted through EA, and my advice is just to work hard to keep improving your record and not to worry. You see, I went to an extremely competitive school for freshman and sophomore year, got maybe around a 2.3 GPA by your standards (I'm an international student, if that makes a difference). But then I moved, and went to a different school for junior year (i.e. one that wasn't insane and cutthroat) and my grades shot up (to maybe around a 3.6 GPA or more for that year). My school doesn't rank students, so I can't be that specific with regards to stats, although my SAT was 2140 (700 CR, 750 M, 690 W) and I had (in my opinion) a good essay and ECs. I was also very worried about my early high school record when I first started applying to universities, but soon found out that they usually emphasize the later part anyway. </p>
<p>To answer your questions:
1. Yes, I honestly think you do. You see, I met with the NEU admissions counselor on a high school visit and arranged an interview with her. She told me that it was impressive how I managed to pull up my grades and said that an upward trend was definitely the best (other than straight A's throughout high school, of course, but obviously not everybody can do that). I explained my situation to her and I guess she was able to give the admissions committee some insight when they were reviewing my application. </p>
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<li><p>See above!</p></li>
<li><p>I have no idea. Don't know much about these things. Sorry. Although if I were you, I wouldn't do that unless they knew me extremely well and could give an accurate testimony of my academic abilities and personal qualities. I would suggest setting up as many interviews as you can with the admissions representatives, so that they get to know you firsthand, rather than through somebody else. That way, you can make sure that they get the whole picture. </p></li>
<li><p>Again, not sure about this since I'm not very familiar with admissions committees, but if you can pull off around a 650 or more for all three sections it might help make up for your poor grades early on. I'm guessing that if you get a strong SAT score and manage to pull off some good grades later on in high school, the admissions committee will be able to see the correlation and know that you are capable of achieving something better, and perhaps that your early high school record was not an accurate representation of your abilities (for whatever reasons that might have affected your schoolwork). </p></li>
<li><p>You mentioned that you're active in about five school clubs, but perhaps you could pick one or two and focus more intensely on that since the admissions committee tends to value quality over quantity. Five seems like you're spread a little thin, but that's just my viewpoint, you may have very good time management skills (which is an area I know I'm severely lacking in). </p></li>
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<p>Anyway, I know I worried a lot about this when I was going through that stage, so I hope my answer helped soothe your nerves a bit.</p>
<p>@ gunshotresidue..... thats for that post that gave me alot of info, and it make me more confident when someone very similiar to me was able to get in, thanx</p>