Northeastern Honors Program

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Northeastern is my #1 school and I really want to get into the Honors program because the dorming is bomb (it’s a shallow reason, I know).

Freshman year
Honors Geometry
Honors Algebra 2
Advanced English 9
Advanced Chemistry
World and it’s People
French 2
Business Survey

My end grades were all above 90 and my GPA was 97.8 These were also the highest level classes I could take plus I also doubled up in math. My rank was 8 out of 251 students

Sophomore year
Honors Pre-Calc
AP Bio
AP Comp Sci
Civics
World and it’s ppl 2
French 3
Pottery 1
Advanced American Studies

GPA: 97.4
Grades: end year grades were 90 or above except AP bio which was 85
Rank: 9 out of 251

Junior year
AP Calculus
AP US history
AP Language and Comp
AP Chemistry
Independent study in android app building
French 4
Pottery 2

GPA: 97.8
Grades: In the A to A+ range, my only B+ in AP Calc
Rank: we did away with ranking but I’m still in the top ten/5%

Senior year courses:
Calc 3 as an independent study
AP Physics
AP Lit
AP Computer Science Principled
Intro to psych
Pottery 3

My extracurricular are:
Track- freshman year
Drama club: freshman year -now
Volunteer at hospitals: freshman year - now
Part of a youth group: VP freshman year and junior year
Job: part time since the summer before my junior year
Coding club- Started and co-captain of my school’s coding club and I’m part of the school team for competitions(we’ve only been to one lol)
Improv Team: been on the Improv team since junior year

Testing:
New SAT- Total: 1450
Math: 760
EBRW: 690
SAT II Subject Test
Bio: 800
Chem: 730
Math 2: 760

AP test-
Biology: 4
Comp sci: 4
US History: 4
Chemistry: 5
Calc AB: 4
English language and composition: 4

What’s good about my chances, what needs improvment? Please let me know.

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Northeastern itself is probably a match for you, but the honors program is gonna be hard.
This is mainly because a lot of people applying to super selective schools apply to NU as a “safety” (with absolutely perfect applications) and tend to get into the honors college.
Maybe if you increase your SAT score to 1520+ your chances may increase!

Chance (roast) me back! :slight_smile:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/19832775#Comment_19832775

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Ooh it’s hard to tell. I really want to get into the honors program too (33 ACT 4.6 GPA). They say that the top 10% of applicants are reviewed for the honors college (they review GPA, test scores, leadership, and community service). I saw an RD kid get accepted to the honors college with a 2110 SAT. It depends on weighted GPA also. Do you know how they recalculate it by any chance? I’d say you have a chance of getting into the honors college. Are you supposed to apply to the honors program or just a specific college?

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I know for a fact that they have their own way of recalculating gpa’s because that is what one of the admission counselors told me during a visit. I’m not exactly sure how though. I think that you just apply to the college and the honors program is just a separate thing that they consider themselves, there really isn’t an application. Also, do you know if they reported yet what the new SAT average would look like on a 1600 scale?