Northwestern ED Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, please chance me for Northwesten ED, Notre Dame and Williams College.</p>

<p>Be as honest and blunt as possible, I won't get offended I just want to know my realistic chances lol.</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT: Best composite: 30 (32 E/35M/23 R/31 S) Superscore: 33 (33 E/35 M/31 R/31 S)
SAT II: 740 Spanish
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.60/5.5 Weighted (I transferred schools junior year which kind of screwed up my unweighted GPA)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5% (Courseload helped a lot)
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Euro, World, and Lang all 3's
IB (place score in parenthesis): IB Math Studies (7 out of 7)
Senior Year Course Load: Toughest (IB full courseload plus AP Calc AB and AP Physics C)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National AP Scholar, Honor Roll, National Honor Society</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Spanish Honor Society (Secretary) Key Club (Secretary) Member of a few other honor societies :D, Heavy involvement in basketball outside of school and in school, Played a few piano recitals at local college</p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: Working with company that parents own (Spend significant time during week as my mom and dad are the only two employees and they need a lot of help lol)</p>

<p>Volunteer/Community service: Around 600 hours total volunteering at Teen Court, Local hospitals, performing various activities in local church, and helping handicapped children at a camp during Spring break</p>

<p>Summer Activities: 1 dual enrollment class, working with parents
Essays: great although I wouldn't say they were amazing lol
Teacher Recommendation: great
Counselor Rec: great</p>

<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): FL
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: crappy public
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 45-55k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, low income, first generation</p>

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<p>Your GPA is probably the only questionable thing on your application, and even then its not bad. ED helps, and the fact that you are hispanic definitely helps. Affirmative action is real. Scores and courseload and ecs are there so I’d say its a high match. The only reason I’d say low reach is because of the extremely low acceptance rate at the school. I think have a very good shot though. Good luck!</p>

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<p>They would all be reaches due to your low GPA and ACT. however, that doesn’t mean you don’t have a chance</p>

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<p>NU does not superscore ACT, and I believe Notre Dame neither. Also you GPA is rather low. NU also recommend or require 2-3 subject tests depending on the school you are applying. Most top schools do not count native language SAT2 for the minimal requirement. I am not sure if NU has that policy or not. Anyway, it would be a reach for you unless you bring up your ACT in single sitting and GPA.
Williams College does superscore ACT, however, it requires 2 SAT2 subject tests even if you submit ACT scores. If you want to apply RD, you still have time to take SAT2 before deadline.</p>

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<p>I am going to take subject tests in December for Math 2 and Physics. I would have taken them earlier but I always get really sick right before the SAT dates lol. And yea, Notre Dame and Northwestern do not superscore but Williams College does.</p>

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<p>Assuming I score 750+ on those two subject tests (Realistic enough as I’m pretty good at those two and I usually score very high on practice tests) will my chances be improved? Northwestern would not see them if I apply ED but hopefully I at least get deferred so they see them in RD lol.</p>