<p>Here are some things about me:
- I am in the ib diploma program
- top 5 percent of my school
- aiming for a 31/32 ACT score
- I am in NHS
- I am in my schools Principal Advisory Committee
- swim team for 3 years
- GPA 4.6 W / 3.7 UW
- grades and involvement in groups has partly been influenced negatively by my Crohns disease
- I am going to be designing a website for a club at UW-Madison
- I started my own website in 8th grade was a failure (I like web design and coding)
- want to either do medicine, pharmacy, or programming</p>
<p>Northwestern University, University of Michigan, UW-Madison,</p>
<p>Madison should be a safety if in state.
For Northwestern, your GPA and estimated ACT scores are both below average for admission. Considering the 12.9% admission rate this year, it will be a reach for you.
For UMich oos, your chance for LSA and CoE are different. With your GPA below their 25% and mediocre ACT, I would suggest you to apply to LSA (there are computer science major in both LSA and CoE). LSA should be a high match to low reach for you (mid 50 ACT 29-33, avg GPA 3.85). CoE would be a reach (mid 50 ACT 31-34, avg GPA 3.96)</p>
<p>I’ll go through everything you posted:</p>
<p>IB definitely helps.
Top 5% helps.
“Aiming” is different than getting. If you have taken official practice tests and gotten 31/32 consistently, then you’ll be fine. Otherwise, your ACT score means nothing as of now.
NHS and PAC help as extracurriculars.
Swim team helps if you would like to pursue it in college OR if you write about a particular experience in the swim team that affected you. Otherwise, three years is not enough (unless you’re only a junior and you’ve only had three years - that’s a different story). Your GPA’s good, but schools like Michigan will look at your grades and convert them to their own GPA scale. Although you don’t state it, I’m assuming that your school weights IB and honors courses a lot. I would look more at your unweighted GPA unless your school does GPA differently (“normal” is like 4.0 for an A, 3.0 for a B, etc.).
If you write out about how Crohn’s disease has affected you in a positive way (or in some way that makes you stand out; it doesn’t necessarily have to be positive - it just has to change or influence you), then colleges will accept it as a lifechanging event. Otherwise, it’s nothing really to put on your application.
Designing a website for UW helps. Unlike your website in 8th grade (which you could talk about in an essay - relate that failure to how you successfully created the website for UW), if this one succeeds and wows the university, you will definitely be admitted to UW.</p>
<p>UW - Madison - safety
U Michigan - match
Northwestern - reach (its acceptance rate is fairly low to guarantee anything. If you beef up your extracurriculars even more, it could become a low reach)</p>
<p>Chance me please! - <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1582787-chances.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1582787-chances.html#latest</a></p>
<p>I forgot to emphasize that UMich put a lot of value on GPA.</p>
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