viciouspoultry

White male from Ohio
GPA 4.125W (very good upward trend, and having a great Senior Year)
Rank 33/328 (May go up after this semester, but the transcript sent has this rank on it)
Senior Courses: Honors Physics, AP Government, AP Calculus, AP Chemistry
ACT 32 (E 32, M 33, R 32, S 31)
SAT II : Math II 800, Chem 790
APs: US History (5)
School is very competitive, we already have 3 kids into Ivy's and I predict at least 6 will go to an Ivy from my class.
Very Rigorous schedule (especially in Maths and Sciences)

Essay: Life changing experience in which I almost died and learned more about myself in the process. I thought it was pretty good.

Teacher Recs: 1 of them is good the other I assume is pretty good, not sure about the councilor rec but I think she did ok.

Work Experience: Plenty of that, spent about 3 years working to save for college including during school.

EC's: really lacking here, I think I wrote down Football for 2 years and Weightlifting in my spare time for 4 years.

Awards: Plenty of district awards, 1 in English and 2 in Mathematics, also Honor Roll and little school awards. As well as a Top 25% on the Financial Literacy Exam.

Hook: I was born in the Former Soviet Union if that helps my chances.

viciouspoultry

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dpattzlover

What kind of engineering would you like to do?
As for chances, I would of course apply because you really have nothing to lose, but I do think that your ECs may hurt you. Unless you have a very good reason why you've not been involved in more and you explain this, I'd say that may kill you. .

viciouspoultry

Well I plan on going into Chemical Engineering or Electrical. My reason is work, I worked pretty much everyday after school till about 9-10 at night from my Sophomore Year till the beginning of my Senior year.

Majman

I have to say that's a pretty ridiculous reason for choosing a major. But if you want a comparison, I did about the same thing too in high school, and maybe a little bit later just because I'm a slow but meticulous worker. However, now I find myself consistently working to 2-3am with little interruption.

viciouspoultry

No the reason was explaining my lack of EC's, sorry if it was confusing.

dpattzlover

Does anyone here know if it is true that it is easier for girls to get into engineering schools? Or, in general, how the break-up at NU would be for percent admitted to the different colleges?

bleedingpurrrple

I don't think the lack of ECs would hurt you much if you worked a lot (how many hours per week?).

viciouspoultry

well during school I worked around 20 hours a week but all at night between 5-9. during the summers I averaged around 30ish closed (till 9 pm) more often then not

bleedingpurrrple

That's a good number of hours. Make sure to market it well though (why you felt you needed to work insted of do other ECs).