**Official Northwestern Chances Thread**

<p>Post your chances here; hopefully this will provide a streamlined chance process rather than having multiple chance threads going at once. Best of luck!</p>

<p>[ *] College (Weinberg, McCormick, etc.):
[ *] Desired Major:
[ *] SAT:
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent):
[ *] ACT:
[ *] GPA (Unweighted/Weighted):
[ *] Rank:
[ *] Other Stats:
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Extracurriculars/Activities:
[ *] Other Issues/Questions:</p>

<p>[ *] College:Medill
[ *] Desired Major: Broadcast Journalism
[ *] SAT: N/A
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): N/A
[ *] ACT: 32
[ *] GPA (Unweighted/Weighted): 3.7/4.1
[ *] Rank: N/A
[ *] Other Stats:
[ *] Essays: Good
[ *] Teacher Recs: Great
[ *] Counselor Rec: Good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):Grandfather carries great weight in Chicago journalism, friends with ex dean of medill
[ *] School Type: large public
[ *] Ethnicity: caucasian
[ *] Gender: female
[ *] Extracurriculars/Activities: 3 years on school news program, job afterschool and weekends for 2 yrs, 2 years of outdoor and indoor track, 100+ volunteer hours at animal shelter
[ *] Other Issues/Questions:</p>

<p>CHANCES?</p>

<p>[ *] College: Medill
[ *] Desired Major: Magazine Journalism
[ *] SAT: M 550, CR 660, W 650, 1210/1860
[ *] SAT IIs: US History-700, Lit 660
[ *] ACT: R 33, E 32, M 24, S 23, C 28
[ *] GPA (Unweighted/Weighted): 3.8/4.14
[ *] Rank: top 8%
[ *] Other Stats: APUSH 4, AP Psych 5, AP Lang 4
[ *] Essays: Supplement is really good, not sure about the common app one :frowning:
[ *] Teacher Recs: Great
[ *] Counselor Rec: I’m guessing it’s good…I didn’t get to read it.
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): I don’t know…Editor-in-Chief of nationally recognized, award winning yearbook?
[ *] School Type: public
[ *] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[ *] Gender: female
[ *] Extracurriculars/Activities: two part time jobs, Interact, Key Club, Book Club, Powder Puff, National Honors Society, Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), Hospice and MD Association volunteer, helped out teacher at local middle school Freshman and Sophomore year, volunteer work through my dad’s cycling club, Staff writer (10th), People Editor (11th), Editor-in-Chief (12th) of yearbook staff that consistently wins Crowns from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) and Pacemakers from the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA), traveled to Columbia University in NY to receive a Silver Crown for our 2010 yearbook in March 2011 at the 87th annual CSPA Spring Convention
[ *] Other Issues/Questions:I know my test scores are bad…but my reading and writing aren’t REALLY bad like math and science, and since I’m majoring in Journalism, I’m hoping they won’t hold as much weight? I don’t know…I’ve pretty much convinced myself that I’m not going to get in…but I know I’m going to be devastated when I actually get the letter.</p>

<p>chances?</p>

<p>Note, the OP forgot to include the fact you should include [ list] [ /list] in your post and remove the spaces. Frankly should have been obvious but I live my life on the net so it may not be.</p>

<p>[ul][<em>] If done properly
[</em>] your posts should look
[*] like this.[/ul]</p>

<p>College (Weinberg, McCormick, etc.):Weinberg</p>

<p>Desired Major:Biology </p>

<p>SAT: 2180</p>

<p>SAT IIs (if sent):Biology E: 770, US History: 730</p>

<p>GPA (Unweighted/Weighted): 4.0/4.5</p>

<p>Rank: 7/450</p>

<p>Essays:Personal Statement is great; about how I grew over the
summer as I studied abroad in Kenya.</p>

<p>Teacher Recs: I think quite good; haven’t read them, though.</p>

<p>Counselor Rec: She was new this year, so she hardly knows me. Probably rather impersonal.</p>

<p>Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): None</p>

<p>School Type: Public</p>

<p>Ethnicity: White</p>

<p>Gender: Female</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/Activities: Editor-in-Chief of Lit Mag, Secretary if Environmental Club, Patrol leader of Girl Scouts, Committee chair of Interact, SPCA Volunteer, NHS, NAHS, Model UN delegate, Horseback riding for 10 years, camp counselor at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Studied abroad at college junior level in Kenya this summer.</p>

<p>Other Issues/Questions: How good are NU’s Biology and English departments? Are there many opportunities for undergraduate research? Is the cold unbearable in the winter? How often do students go into Chicago?</p>

<p>Chance me please? :)</p>

<p>[ul] College: Weinburg [/ul]

  • Desired Major: Chemistry (Want to double major in Math as well)
  • SAT: 780 Math, 600 Reading, 560 Writing
  • SAT IIs: 710 Chemistry, 690 Math II
  • ACT: 32 Composite (36 Math, 33 Science, 30 English)
  • GPA (Unweighted/Weighted): (3.55 Unweighted/4.05 Weighted)
  • Rank: 33 of 228
  • Other Stats: AP Chem-5, Currently taking (AP English Lit, AP Physics, AP Calculus BC, AP Biology), Accelerated on all graduation tests
  • Essays: Haven’t finished supplement. Common App ones are on being a Boy Scout and also on my positive experience on the band trip to Disney World
  • Teacher Recs: Very very good. From AP Chem and AP Calc teachers
  • Counselor Rec: Probably pretty good.
  • School Type: Medium size public
  • Ethnicity: Caucasian
  • Gender: Male

[ul] Extracurriculars/Activities: Varsity Baseball, Academic Challenge, Concert and Marching Band (Treasurer), Boy Scouts of America (Eagle Scout candidate), Caddy for 5 years, over 200 hours of volunteer work at the Cleveland Clinic, 2 years of cross country, Principal’s Advisory Committee, National Honor Society, Fellowship of Christian Athletes [/ul]</p>

<p>[ul]
[<em>] College (Weinberg, McCormick, etc.): Weinberg
[</em>] Desired Major: Chemistry
[<em>] SAT: Not sending
[</em>] SAT IIs (if sent): 710 Chemistry, 770 Math II
[<em>] ACT: 34 (8 essay)
[</em>] GPA (Unweighted/Weighted): 3.97
[<em>] Rank: 5/508
[</em>] Other Stats: 5 on AP Calc AB and AP US History, 6 on IB Spanish SL and IB Math SL
[<em>] Essays: Common App Essay is really bad…haven’t started supplement
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Never read them
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t read
[</em>] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): First generation
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Extracurriculars/Activities: Lots of violin and piano: Assistant Concertmaster Orchestra, Youth Symphony, attended international Midwest clinic, excellent rating at regionals, community service as a string quartet, play in school musicals, district orchestra. With piano: gained superior and excellent ratings on regional and state levels
[li] Other Issues/Questions:[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Just submitted my app today for RD. Does anyone know when decisions usually come out?</p>

<p>[ul]
[<em>] College: McCormick
[</em>] Major: Computer Engineering
[<em>] SAT I: 2400
[</em>] SAT II: 790 USH, 780 Bio-M, 780 Math II
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.8
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): ~10/339
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5^8 in Biology, US History, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, European History, Psychology, English Language, US Government (4 of which were self-studies)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calc II, Multivariable Calc (selfed AP calc over the summer), AP Chemistry, Honors Physics, AP English Lit, AP US Government, Science Research, intermediate macroeconomic theory (college 3000 level class), advanced methods in analytical chemistry (PhD level)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): [/li]Placed @ ISEF, national finalist @ JSHS as well as a few other science competitions
State finalist for debate
Mock trial, lead atty. 2nd in state sophomore year, 3rd junior year. 20th @ world championships junior year, 10th senior year. Top 10 witness in the world junior year state MVP witness in mock trial sophomore & junior year</p>

<p>+minor stuff like AP national scholar and national merit.</p>

<p>So international recognition in mock trial, national recognition in research, and state recognition in debate, I guess.</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):[/li]Big one - From 8th grade through the first half of junior year, built a large online community focused around a game with ~200k members and ~1m users. (common app essay about this)
Science Research (with 0 connections and little guidance, my project was much more independent then everyone else I saw at the competitions and my teacher made note of this in her letter)
mock trial
debate
glassblowing: I make bowls, vases, paperweights and similar such things at my local museum.
swordsmithing</p>

<p>[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Helping out at family business
[</em>] Summer Activities: glassblowing every summer, Harvard summer school one summer (on a scholarship), working for parent’s business every summer, and chemistry lab research one summer.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: 1 was teacher’s best ever (I read it), the other just talked about my curiosity with regards to self-studied APs. It was also solid.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Excellent - counselor usually writes weak reccomendations for top students, but due to a complicated series of events she loves me.
[li] Additional Rec: From a Harvard Professor I did research with. Excellent.[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>[ul]
[<em>] College: Weinberg
[</em>] Desired Major: biological sciences
[<em>] SAT:n/a
[</em>] SAT IIs (if sent):n/a
[<em>] ACT:30
[</em>] GPA (Unweighted/Weighted):3.8
[<em>] Rank:26/135
[</em>] Other Stats: taking AP calculus, AP chemistry, and Spanish 4 this year, and took ap US history last year
[<em>] Essays:not amazing but ok
[</em>] Teacher Recs: didn’t read
[<em>] Counselor Rec: didn’t read
[</em>] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): double legacy
[<em>] School Type: small private
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Extracurriculars/Activities: 4 years of soccer, tutor, national honor society, mentor
[li] Other Issues/Questions:[/li][/ul]
If someone could tell me my chances that would be awesome</p>

<p>Applied ED!</p>

<p>College: Weinberg
Desired Major: Biological Sciences
ACT: 31 (33 E, 30 M, 35 R, 25 S)
UW GPA: 3.85
Recs: did not read
Essays: common ap was great, supplement was good but nothing special
Hook: none
School Type: well known private that has ties with NU
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Extracurriculars: model un 3 years (secretary then president), thespian 4 years (secretary, VP, president), stuco one year, varsity mathlete 2 years, volunteer with hospice care patients</p>

<p>Chance me?</p>

<p>[ *] College (Weinberg, McCormick, etc.): Weinberg
[ *] Desired Major: Biological Sciences, Minor: Chemistry
[ *] SAT: N/A
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): 720 Chemistry, 710 US History
[ *] ACT: Composite score: 32 (E: 32 M: 31 R: 32 S: 34)
[ *] GPA (Unweighted/Weighted): UW: 3.75 (3.78 by the end of first semester senior year) W: 5.31 currently [Upward Trend]
[ *] Rank: 57/591 (Top 10%)
[ *] Other Stats:
[ *] Essays: - {Depends, I have some good topics, however they won’t have the wow factor I want without exaggeration. Debating what I am going to do for this… }
[ *] Teacher Recs: - {These are GOING to be GREAT}
[ *] Counselor Rec: - {It is probably going to suck since I just transferred here and she doesn’t know me well at all}
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): First Generation
[ *] School Type: Competitive Public HS
[ *] Ethnicity: South Asian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Extracurriculars/Activities:
Pep Club 9th grade - We painted signs for the school such as: “Football Game Versus SOUTH! Bring your School Spirit!”
Student Council 9th – 10th – 85 hours in total. Was on Homecoming Committee, and a few others.
Scholastic Bowl 9th -12th My favorite EC. It’s a mix between family feud and jeopardy with two teams from two different schools competing with one another. I was the best on the Junior Varsity team this year (11th) scoring the most points out of everyone. I will be next year’s varsity captain. My coach told me that I would have been on Varsity any other year besides this one, since this year’s team was VERY good. They were this year’s divisional champs. I have many goals for this team next year, (including becoming regional champs) and I might write my college essay on this.
Newspaper 11th -12th – Joined this year, and found that I love it. Even though we stayed at school until 9PM during every single Production week. I also became Sci-Tech-Health Editor, an important position of leadership.
Tennis 11th-12th – Tennis IS SO MUCH FUN! I regret not joining as a Freshman. At least the coach said I improved a lot despite our very short season due to the weird weather.
Key Club 11th – 12th Volunteering group
6 Hours of Volunteering on Primrose Farm for the “Primrose Farm Frolic!” I was assigned with supervising children on hay rides.
25 Hours of Tutoring children at the local middle school in math, English, science, and social studies. I will be the “Head Tutor,” a leadership position chosen by the school’s principal. I will be in charge with coordinating which days tutoring will be available and which students need the most help. (I will still be tutoring kids hands on)
Science Olympiad 11th -12th We engage in science competitions against other schools. The competitions include disciplines of science, such as astronomy, chemistry, etc. I won two awards on the Science Olympiad team. We won 6th at regionals, and went to state where we placed 12th.
Science Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society- 1 hour of tutoring SO FAR
I will also apply for different honor societies such as NHS, math, English, social studies during senior year… but I don’t know if it will matter or not.
Mosque- My very strict teacher taught me how to read the Quran beautifully in Arabic, an important milestone in any religious muslim’s life. I eventually become good enough to compete against other muslims from different mosques.
[ *] Other Issues/Questions:
Took rigorous classes throughout HS
Overall, I am unsure of whether I have a shot at getting in. Please be Honest, BRUTALLY HONEST if you must.
Don’t be afraid of criticizing me. Also, any tips on how I can improve are GREATLY appreciated.
[ *] Senior Year Classes: AP Calc AB, AP Macroecon, AP Govt, AP Bio, AP Lit, AP Spanish, PE IV (PE is required)
[ *] Awards:
4th place JV Astronomy @ Huntley
1st place JV Astronomy @ Regionals
3rd Place Masonic Scholastic Bowl (Played on Varsity for this tournament)
Best on the JV Scholastic Bowl team
Top 10 scholastic bowl player @ Fenton out of 109 players
JV Team Scholastic Bowl Record 9-1
We lost one game because 2 good players had a big orchestra concert.
We won other awards last year and this year (mostly 1st place) but I don’t know the names of each tournament, so I will dig around to find those.
MSI – Selected in the Qirat Competition
I am a Muslim. I learned how to read the Quran in Arabic just as everyone in our Sunday School Mosque did. I beat the 14 students of my grade at the local mosque, then moved on to the regional competition where I lost in the “Qirat Competition.” This competition scores you on tajweed (grammatical accuracy), and pronunciation. It is much harder than most will think.
MSI- At my Sunday School I won an award for Quranic Studies
I also won one for Islamic Studies
I understand that Quranic and Islamic Studies are VERY Generic terms
8th Grade – President’s Award (May as well list this :stuck_out_tongue: )</p>

<p>@halodoodikins‌ Well, Your ACT and class rank are going to hurt since you are not in top 10%. Your essays are not very good either BUT You happen to DOUBLE LEGACY. Northwestern’s common data set says that they “consider” alumni relations, but I feel that the double legacy hook is REALLY going to help you. You have a great shot at getting in if you improve your “Not Amazing but Ok” essay. Good luck :slight_smile: </p>

<p>I AM REVIVING THIS THREAD</p>

<p>Someone chance me?</p>