Northwestern Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Applying Early Decision at Northwestern</p>

<p>White female, bilingual</p>

<p>Rank: 1 out of 463
GPA: 4.82 (on 5.00 scale)
ACT: math - 34, science - 32, english - 31, reading - 28, composite - 31, writing - 9
ACT: math - 36, science - 27 (damn), english - 34, reading - 28, composite - 31, writing - 10
SAT: subject math II - 780
subject US History - 680
subject chemistry: will take in the fall... expecting in the 700's
AP: European History AP - 4
Calculus AB AP - 4
U.S. Hist. AP - 4
Eng. Lang. AP - 3 =(</p>

<p>Activities/some awards:
Math Team (9,10,11,12) and went to state 2 years
Historical society (10, 11, 12) (vice-president)
NHS (11, 12)
Spanish club (11, 12)
Gifted Lyceum (we do a lot of volunteer work) (9, 10, 11, 12)
Volleyball (9, 10)
Piano (8 years)
Tutor other high school kids in the mornings (10, 11, 12)
Teacher Assistant in chemistry (11, 12)
Junior and Senior leader (learn leadership skills to be a teacher assistant in PE senior year)
Volunteer Work (11, 12 at the hospital)
Summer school at Northwestern (10, 11)
Mu Alpha Theta (11, 12)
Yearbook (12)
Department awards in science, social science, and foreign language all years
Student of the month (all years, various subjects)</p>

<p>Work:
hostess at restaurant (summer 2007)
private tutor (summer/fall 2007)
babysitting (11, 12)</p>

<p>Classes and grades for semesters:
Junior year:
Calculus AB AP - B/A
Spanish IV Honors - A/A
English III AP Lang. - B/A
U.S. History AP - A/A
Physics Honors - A/A
Senior year:
Economics AP
Spanish V AP
English IV AP Lit.
Calculus BC AP
Chemistry AP</p>

<p>I am taking the ACT again in Sept. and will not be taking the SAT's (the reading portion kills me). I have good writing skills for the essays and great teacher recommendations. Do you think I have a chance? THANKS!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>looks like a pretty solid shot, if you ask me</p>

<p>your standardized test scores seem a bit sub-par for Northwestern, but the fact that you are top of your class makes me think that you've clearly done as well as your school can offer</p>

<p>out of curiosity, is there a reason why your school's GPA is set up so that even the valedictorian's weighted score is a 4.8?</p>

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<p>Being val is a clear strength but the scores are weak for Northwestern which has become increasingly competitive.</p>

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<p>We were required to take health, oral communications, and consumer ed. classes that were only offered on a 4.0 scale. Every other class I've taken is on a 5.0 scale.</p>

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<p>I'd say your chances are really very good, your standardized test scores are a little bit low but everything else looks awesome. Have you thought of taking the SATs? You might do better on those, science brought you down and there's none of that on the SATs.</p>

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<p>bet you wish the ACT was superscored, huh?
36,32,34,28 would be nice. 33</p>

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<p>if you can increase your ACT by like 1-2 pts i think you wouldn't have a problem</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>and Northwestern does take the highest scores on all your ACT's to figure your best possible score, at least that's what they said at the info session</p>

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<p>Gee, more people than ever before are applying to Northwestern, including myself! </p>

<p>I was wondering, if you have great test scores, great EC's, but an only ok GPA, is it possible to get into NU?</p>

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<p>Ya, you're in ED.</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>thanks for your opinions</p>

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<p>another bump</p>

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<p>Well your GPA and class rank are obviously impressive, but the one thing I would be concerned about is your AP scores. My weighted GPA is around 4.1, class rank hardly in the top 15%, and I scored a 5 on the AP Euro, US, and English Language, classes I got B's in, so it may be concerning that your GPA is a bit inflated. I don't mean to put you down because you really have a fantastic resume, I'm just being real with you. If you do end up being rejected, which I don't think will happen, that would be the cause in my book.</p>