Odds at the Honors Program?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northeastern University
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<p>I'm a rising Senior from San Antonio, Texas. I've taken all honors courses, and four APs thus far, and am registered to take another 6 this coming year. The EC leadership positions are already earned, I'm just assuming that I'm not going to get impeached or anything. (: And my CS hours are all still works in progress.</p>

<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Mexican-American/Hispanic
Income: ~30,000
Single mom household</p>

<p>Rank: 11/700some.
(My school is ranked jointly with a very competative magnet school that comes in 17 in the nation. From my school alone, I fall somewhere between 2-4.)
GPA: 3.9996/4.0 // 99.9985/100</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Debate- 4 years; Treasurer Sophomore year & President Junior/Senior year
NHS- 2 years; President Senior year
Latin Club- 3 years; President Junior/Senior year
Student Council- 2 years; DASH committee chair Junior year & VicePresident Senior year
BPA- 2 years; Secretary Junior year & President Senior year
Literary Magazine- 3 years
SixFlags- 1 year; employee for the entire 2010 season</p>

<p>Honors:
Debate: I've placed in several tournaments in both Student Congress and Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking. I was chosen as the Novice of the Year my freshman year, and Varsity Excellence my Junior year. I also won my school's course award for Oral Interp. I hold a degree of Superior Distiction with the National Forensics League.
BPA: Placed 5th in region for Extemporaneous Speaking
Science Fair: I've made it past preliminaries and competed in my school's Science Fair all three years, winning third place my Junior year.
Latin: I received a Magna Cum Laude on the National Latin Exam
English: I was a member of my school's society of English scholars both freshman and sophomore year. My school didn't continue it this past year.
Hispanic Merit ___: My counselor informed me that I qualified for Hispanic Merit, and I think that the only other hurdle was GPA, so I'm pretty sure I made HMS.</p>

<p>Hook-ish stuff:
Musical Instruments: I've played the Clarient since 5th grade, but I didn't pursue band in HS because I knew it'd take a lot of time that I felt would be better used in academics. I also took guitar lessons for 2 years 5-7th grade and still play.
Multilingual: My native tongue is Spanish.</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Recycle pick up with StuCo approx 100hrs
Miscellaneous with StuCo events approx 30hrs
Trash pick up with NHS approx 15hrs
Miscellaneous with NHS approx 30hrs
Community library approx 50hrs</p>

<p>SAT:
800 CR
650 Math
730 Writing
Total: 2180</p>

<p>I'm registered to take the Lit and Math2 Subject tests in Oct.</p>

<p>ACT:
29</p>

<p>First time, little to no preparation. I got really frazzled on the math, and it threw me off for the rest of the test. I'm registered to take the next upcoming one. As it is, I wouldn't send this score.</p>

<p>I plan on applying to their College of Social Sciences and Humanities. </p>

<p>Where do you guys think my chances fall?</p>

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<p>I’d give you a 99% chance of getting into Northeastern, and a 95% of getting into the honors program :)</p>

<p>Being from Texas gives you an advantage (Northeastern has been trying to get more students from other parts of the U.S. for quite some time). They want a diverse honors program (judging by the fact that Honors students are housed in International Village) and they consider the top 10% for it. Your SAT is in the top 25%, your unweighted GPA is in the top half of the range of the <strong>weighted</strong> GPA midrange (which is 3.6 to 4.1), etc. Their honors ambassadors (see the Honors website) seem to be high-acheiving and diverse individuals, and HMS would put you in that category.</p>

<p>You don’t need SAT IIs for Northeastern, so only submit them if you do moderately well.</p>

<p>Hope to see you there in 2012!!!</p>

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<p>I can’t guarantee anything because the stats rise every year, and it depends on your major/college. I can tell you that I had a 3.99 UW, 4.63 W GPA, 2030 SAT, and 33 ACT and was accepted into honors as an architecture major. I can only leave you with the advice of applying EA to increase your chances.</p>