Northwestern University and others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Didn't take
[</em>] ACT (breakdown): 32
[<em>] ACT superscore (breakdown): 33
[</em>] SAT II: None taken yet. Future: Chemistry, Math II, maybe Physics.
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[</em>] Weighted GPA: There is no weighted GPA at my school.
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/220
[</em>] AP (place score in parentheses): Biology (5) (My school has no AP classes)
[<em>] IB (place score in parentheses):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: University: Calc II, Biostatistics + General Chemistry I, General Chemistry II + Physics I ( calc-based), Cell Biology; high school: English 12, Ceramics, Anatomy and Physiology, Spanish IV
[<em>] Number of other applicants in your school: Zero.
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Maybe the Horatio Alger, Life lessons scholarship and possibly QuestBridge[/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Leo club (10, 11, 12), NHS (12 because only seniors can have), Science Olympiad (11, 12), SADD (11, 12), tennis (12)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Regular job. 20 hours a week since beginning of 11th grade.
[li] Volunteer/Community service: Leo Club, Volunteering in ER [/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): MI
[</em>] School Type: Small public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: < 30,000 for three people ( my portion of earnings goes toward dual enrollment costs, which are exorbitant)
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):First generation, Low-income, extreme adversity [/ul] </p>

<p>If curious about adversity: It includes parent dying during high school, parent drug abuse, low-income, abusive parents, disabled parents, disabled brother, 10 different schools... list goes on. </p>

<p>So what are my chances of getting in? I've wanted to go here forever, it's my passion, and despite all obstacles, I've been working for this for a long time.</p>

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<p>Northwestern: reach
your ECs are a little generic, and that ACT score is a little average too. You still have a shot, but it’s gonna be kinda difficult</p>

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<p>How is northwestern a reach, I feel like he’d definitely be in with those stats (I might be biased because someone I thought was really annoying got into Northwestern ED and I’m pretty sure his academics were terrible too).</p>

<p>Although the financial aid problem seems a lot more tricky.</p>

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<p>NWU: Reach</p>

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<p>I think given your circumstances NWU is a high match/low reach for you. I agree with scderek4 – your ECs may be a little generic, but the fact that you’ve endured so much adversity and still came out on top is definitely going to weigh more in your apps (in my opinion).</p>

<p>Chance me back if you want.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1563282-chance-poor-ol-pleb-these-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1563282-chance-poor-ol-pleb-these-schools.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I agree with @Decimation
Sorry I don’t have anything more unique to say, but he said it all</p>

<p>Good Luck at NWU!</p>

<p>Chance me? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1563616-chances-cornell-dyson-ed.html#post16463724[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1563616-chances-cornell-dyson-ed.html#post16463724&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Well, to all of you guys, the reason my EC are weak is because that is literally all we have at our school. I’m taking advantage of every resource I have, even online classes and outside volunteer work when I have to pay for gas and insurance to be able to do these things. I’m in each of the things and I also work 20 hours a week to pay for dual enrollment classes that cost over 10grandish. So now is it a reach?</p>

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<p>Low reach.</p>

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<p>OH! I forgot to mention that I did mentoring (11, 12) every week!</p>

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<p>your academics are great, the only major flaw I see is no four year ECs. Make sure your essays and recs are great and I don’t think you’ll have much of a problem at NU!</p>

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<p>Yeah, I had moved schools and had a lot of problems occurring in my family. Also, I lived like 15 miles from my school, and my dad was always gone, so I couldn’t do any extracurriculars even though I wanted to.</p>

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<p>Just go to Michigan.</p>

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<p>But I love Chicago and the atmosphere there, and there is a great premed program there!</p>

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<p>How can you take chances seriously from people who don’t even know that it’s never NWU, but NU? That tells you all you need to know about the validity of these chances threads, HopeNorthwestern.</p>

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<p>Northwestern: low reach</p>

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