What are my chances at northwestern??

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northwestern University
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<p>Pertinent Courses (AP Test Score):</p>

<p>GPA (unweighted) 4.00</p>

<p>AP English Lang (5), AP Chemistry (5), AP European History (5, self-study), AP Calc AB (5, self-study), AP Psychology (5), AP Statistics (5), AP US History (5)</p>

<p>Current Courses: AP English Lit, AP Phys, AP Bio, AP US Gov, AP Spanish, Chamber Orchestra</p>

<p>Test Scores:
SAT I: 800 CR
780 Math
800 Writing</p>

<p>SAT II: 800 Math II
800 US History
790 Chemistry</p>

<p>Recommendations: One of them says "one of the two or three best students in my seventeen year career...nobody has surpassed his ability for retaining academic knowledge" and the other one said I have a "maturity beyond my years" and that I'm "an intellect willing to struggle with life's deepest questions"</p>

<p>Extracurricular Stuff:
-Principle Violist of local youth symphony
-admitted to All State Orchestra
-one of two high school violists in the region selected to play in a concert with the Seattle Symphony
-111 on AMC 12, 7 on AIME
-1st place in county-wide short story contest in 9th grade
-varsity letter in cross country
-varsity letter in key club (one of three letter winners in the club, for doing over 100 hours of community service in one year)
-president of school honor society
-captain of school math team, knowledge bowl team
-part of knowledge bowl team that took 2nd at the state tournament
-led a math project that took 1st at the state competition</p>

<p>Would Northwestern be a "reach" or a "match" for me?</p>

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<p>You are eminently qualified. Of course, that doesn't mean that you get in. How much do you want to go to NU, and how much does your application reflect that?
What is your first choice?</p>

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<p>To be honest, NU is kind of a secondary school for me... my reaches are Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and my backup is the University of Washington. I was just wondering how firmly I could count on Northwestern as a backup if the dice don't go my way for HYP... (ie, whether it would be a good idea to apply to a school "between" Northwestern and UW in case I don't make Northwestern).</p>

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<p>There is never a guarantee, but I'd be surprised if you were rejected.</p>

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<p>Are you a URM?</p>

<p>Not to be judgmental, I just noticed your username :P</p>

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<p>Haha, dude you are in! If you're an URM, then you're like in at least one of HYPMS.</p>

<p>Have fun deciding where to go.</p>

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<p>I think it would be a good idea to have a school between HYP and U of Wash.</p>

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<p>Yeah, if you're a URM, you have a GREAT shot.</p>

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<p>LOL, no I'm not Hispanic. We have to have Spanish names in Spanish class, and JuanMarco is mine. I'm actually white.</p>

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<p>I second WCASParent's advice. Northwestern rejects alot of students with extremely impressive standardized test scores...it gets subjective with the essays and extra curricular involvement.</p>

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<p>Oh haha.</p>

<p>Still a pretty freakin' good chance.</p>

<p>Also, to ^, a girl from my school got accepted with a 2400.</p>