Right track for Northwestern?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>UW GPA 4.0 W GPA 4.4</p>

<p>Ultra competitive public high school
5000 students
best non merit based school in state</p>

<p>State:Illinois(will being in-state help?)</p>

<p>was a transfer student coming into my school so i got placed into lower classes than i would've been in with the exception of English cause i just suck in that</p>

<p>School dosent allow AP's freshman year</p>

<p>Acc=4.5 weighted GPA
- surrounded by white spots =class was only 1 semester</p>

<p>Freshman year------------ 1st Semester----------------2nd Semester
Algebra 2 Honors-----------A ------------------------- A
Biology Accelerated--------A --------------------------A
Intro to business-----------A -------------------------- -
Computer Programmer Acc----- - ----------------------A+
English-------------------A- ---------------------------A-
World History-------------A+ --------------------------A+</p>

<p>got an unfair teacher for Algebra freshman year so i got lower grades</p>

<p>Sophomore Year
Geometry Honors---------A+ ------------------------------A+
Chem Acc----------------A -------------------------------A+
Marketing---------------- A ------------------------------- -
Entrepreneurship---------- - -------------------------------A+
English------------------- A- -----------------------------A-
AP human geography------ A --------------------------------A+
Chinese------------------ A+ --------------------------------A Health(required)----------- - --------------------------------A+</p>

<p>Junior Year-Currently taking
Precalc honors<br>
AP Physics B
AP computer science
English Acc
AP US history
Chinese 2 Acc
Drivers Ed (required)</p>

<p>Expected course load senior yr
AP Calc BC
AP Physics C
AP Bio
AP Macro
AP Micro
chinese 3 Acc
English acc (might change to AP)</p>

<p>Extracurricular
FBLA 3 yrs- office posistion this year
started an IT club-officer posistion
Model UN 4 yrs
Scholastic bowl (quiz bowl) 4 yrs
NHS 2 yrs</p>

<p>Volunteering
100 hours from various organization through a community service club in school-will that just show inconsistency
going to get 100 hrs by end of yr from a hospital
got about 50 random hrs
-organized volunteer opportunities for a religious organization near me Sophomore year</p>

<p>Awards
got 3rd place in regional
then 1st place in State
then went to nationals for FBLA</p>

<p>got an award from my school for winning state</p>

<p>-Overall, pretty weak anything i can do to improve my chances?
btw, i havent taken SAT,ACT yet
taking SAT subject test Chemistry Nov 1st dont know how that will go
expecting about 2100 on SAT and around 31 or 32 on ACT</p>

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<p>anyone can help me? i know its kinda early</p>

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<p>Seems like you’re definitely on the right track. Your grades/course load are great, and you have some leadership positions. For Northwestern, I think you need close to 2200 on the SAT, but as a junior you have plenty of time to prepare. Good luck!</p>

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<p>I just noticed your question about being in-state. I don’t think it’ll be a factor b/c it’s a private college but you have plenty of other things going for you so don’t worry.</p>

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<p>If you plan to ED Northwestern, I think you’re on the right track. You still have a year, so you’re probably good.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the replies. Are there any other colleges that you guys might suggest for me to look at?</p>

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<p>does anyone else have any opinions?</p>

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<p>This is probably what you’re looking for…</p>

<p>[Naviance</a> results for Northwestern from highly competitive IL public high school](<a href=“https://connection.naviance.com/family-connection/colleges/scattergram]Naviance”>https://connection.naviance.com/family-connection/colleges/scattergram) </p>

<p>Select Northwestern University from the drop-down list and then sort by unweighted GPA and SAT-2400 scale (or ACT although results are clearer using SAT-2400 scale).</p>

<p>As you can see, Northwestern does not turn away a lot of 4.0 GPAs from tippy-top public schools. Obviously you need to keep the grades up and get ACT/SAT scores in their range. But if you do indeed go to the top public high school in Illinois it is not likely that you will be rejected by Northwestern if you maintain that 4.0 GPA.</p>

<p>Good Luck</p>

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<p>4.0 and 30+ ACT should be fine. I don’t see how a public school with 5000 students can be “ultra-competitive” :P</p>

<p>edit also going ED would help mucho</p>

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<p>The OP is exaggerating on the 5000. There are no non-charter public high schools in IL with that many students.</p>

<p>However, both New Trier and Stevenson have over 4,300 students and they are both ultra-competitive high schools (amongst non-charter public schools). They send a lot of students to the most selective schools every year. Stevenson, for example, sends about 20 kids to Northwestern every year. That’s enrolled, not just accepted.</p>

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<p>When you have a school with that many kids there is bound to be some bright ones.</p>

<p>I’m sure Lane Tech is up there in size too.</p>

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<p>Yes, for sure, but there are plenty of big high schools (maybe not 4000 students big, but that is just because there aren’t that many schools that size) that almost never send kids to the most selective colleges. Warren Township has about 4300 students and surely there are some “bright ones” there too. But they very rarely (if ever) end up at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Stanford as they do from Stevenson. </p>

<p>Lane tech is a magnet school so I don’t think it is comparable.</p>

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<p>i go to Stevenson. Thats what i meant by ultra competitive.</p>

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<p>the school is Stevenson and sends quite a few kids to Ivy leagues</p>

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<p>The school has nearly a hundred percent college Attendence rate and a score of 30 on the act Is considered low but I’m more concerned about my chances to Northwestern</p>