TaylorFTW

-female, rising senior
-Biracial (i claim both African American and Caucasian heritage)
- 3.7 weighted GPA (with a rising trend) this is whats going to hurt me, i know.
-I'm at aprivate, competitive, college prep high school

-advanced classes: Honors humanities, Geometry Accelerated, Algebra 2 Accelerated, Honors Physics, Precalculus honors, AP calculus, AP European History, and AP spanish.

-EC's Dance classes (since the age of 3), competitive dance team, amnesty international, national honors society (for which i have been elected secretary), and managing my schools cross country team

-so far 152 hrs of service that include teaching dance classes and managing the CC team. I plan to log at least 60 more hours in the coming year.

-ACT composite 33 w/ 35 english, 33 math, 34 reading, and 28 science

-Awards: Outstanding Young Person leadership/academic award from my city's Urban League (5 years running), winning my school's annual writing contest, National Merit & National Acheivement

arbiter213

Where're you from? Geographic diversity would help.

TaylorFTW

Madison Wisconsin. So that probably will hurt me a bit

arbiter213

yah, probably.

blazin hazin

this is like the standard Northwestern student. i had pretty much the same stuff as you when applying to NU, minus the prep school/urban stuff. you should have a good shot, especially ED