What are my chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>High School Junior--Top choice is Northwestern.
Female.
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian, 25% Armenian but I don't look it. My grandfather is an immigrant.
UW GPA: 3.85
Honors/AP Classes: H American Lit, AP Lang, AP US Gov, H Spanish 4, H Philosophy
Will take next year: H Precalc, AP Lit, AP Spanish, AP Chem, AP Econ
Taking AP tests this week, hoping to get a 5 on the Lang and a 4 on Gov
ACT: 29, going to get that up to a 31/32
I think my Rec letters will be really good.
EC's: Been heavily involved with theatre and public speaking at my school all years.
Talent show freshman year, three musicals, two short plays, stage manager as a freshman for play and tech for another play
Producer of one-act play competition
Director of Communication for our Student Congress next year.
NHS
Developing a program to bring voting clerks into my school to register high school voters
Member of international thespian society
Plan to be chosen as a director for our student plays senior year and hold a position on our school board for theatre (like secretary)
Awards/Honors:
In theatre:
Superior ranking in: stage management presentation (11), theatre marketing presentation (10), group musical performance (10,11), Excellent ranking in group acting performance (9).
In public speaking:
1st place in state for poetry interpretation freshman year.
4th place in state for informative speaking junior year.
Plan to compete senior year as well.</p>

<p>Northwestern is my top choice and has been since my freshman year. I've visited once but plan to visit twice more this year. Went to their informational meeting at my school and am going to another one in a week at a local hotel.
I'm applying ED as well.</p>

<p>Sorry this is a lot! Lol
Thanks!</p>

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<p>Class rank: top 25%</p>

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<p>Gosh forgot a couple of things:
Attend a pretty good public school in southeastern Michigan.
Applying to school of Communications for communication studies at NU.
They don’t really do interviews but when I visited my 10th grade year I met with the film production counselor and talked with her.</p>

<p>Also applying to American, USC, UC-Berkeley, UofM and NYU.</p>

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<p>How competitive is your school? Does your school send 10+ graduates to ivy league/ top 20 schools each year?</p>

<p>^If that’s not the case, then your class rank is really low; that will hurt you a lot. ACT score is low too, you want at least a 33+. Right now, even ED, your chances are looking pretty low at Northwestern, but you have extensive EC’s in theater, that could help you, depending on how NU views it. </p>

<p>Of the other schools, the only ones I see you getting into is American and probably UMich (Umich or U of minnesota)? USC and NYU are low-reach to reach schools and UCberkeley is about as competitive as Northwestern.</p>

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<p>I’d say my school definitely sends 10+ to ivies, I know of people graduating this year going to Harvard and a lot of people going to brown.
Yeah I’d say for a public school it’s pretty competitive.
My school doesn’t actually rank–but this is what the state-wide ACT sent me back for rank.
I’m doing my very best to get my ACT up, I have special accommodations due to learning disability, so realistically I think I could get it up to a 33 at most. Would that be enough?</p>

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<p>And yes I mean UMich.
Thank you!</p>

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<p>33 would help a lot.</p>

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<p>Getting your ACT up is a must, and while your gpa is on the lower end, if you right solid essays, I like your chances</p>