Think I have a chance?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northwestern University
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<p>I'm applying RD, just sent in my app.</p>

<p>White female from IL</p>

<p>ACT:33
GPA: 4.654 (weighted on 4.0 scale) they don't tell us unweighted, but no matter how many honors/ap classes we take my school will only weight 3 each year.
Class rank: 17/789 (after 6 semesters)
Schedule: This year's is all AP (except for gym and band) Freshman year had only 3 honors, all other years had at least 4 honors/AP courses</p>

<p>Extra:
4 years Marching Band
4 year mathlete - leadership jr & sr years
pep band
badminton freshman and sophomore year
NHS
Tri-M (music honor society)
JCL (latin club) - leadership jr. year
Pi Sigma Pi (history)
Mu alpha Theta (math honor society)
National Latin Honor Society</p>

<p>Also Illinois State Scholar and Exceeded all state standards on PSAE</p>

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<p>Your ACT is solid.
I can’t make heads or tails of that GPA; you need to figure out the unweighted on a 4.0 scale, using only true academic courses (e.g., no PE). I suspect it will be a fine GPA (depending on how hard your courses are relative to the hardest offered at your school), especially given your class rank.
ECs are fine.
You are almost certainly a competitive candidate. The only problem is that there’s lots of competition.
Good luck.</p>

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<p>yeah, I think I get my unweighted gpa to be a 3.94 -ish.</p>

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<p>Great shot! Best of luck</p>