Chance Me and I'll Be Your Best Friend!!!

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<p>Please chance me for Northwestern!! I’m desperate to know if I have a shot!</p>

<p>White Male
Catholic School California
GPA UW- 3.83<br>
GPA W- 4.5
Class Rank 2</p>

<p>ACT- 32
SAT- Awaiting Results</p>

<p>AP World History-5
AP US History-5
AP Chemistry- 5
AP English Language- 4</p>

<p>Senior Schedule
AP Physics
AP English
AP Gov/AP Econ
AP Calculus
Spanish 3
Religion</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars</p>

<p>Varsity Golf in one of the toughest golf leauges in the nation(all four years)
Freelance Writer for Newspaper(9)
Editor in Chief of Newspaper(10-12)
Key Club(10-12)
-Treasurer(11)
-President(12)
National Honor Society(11-12)
-Vice President(12)
Chemistry Tutor
Honor Roll(9-12)</p>

<p>Summer
(I spend my summers in Door County, Wisconsin refered to as the cape cod of the Midwest)
Sailing Instructor over the summer at a fairly large sailing camp in Wisconson
Very Active in racing sailboats
-In flying scot midwesterns I got 10th out of 45 boats overall and 1st in the junior division
-Won countless series races during a summer racing league
Taught myself to windsurf and started a business teaching windsurfing with the ultimate goal of popularizing windsurfing so that I could expand the business to renting and selling windsurfers when I am in college
Wrote a ‘how to sail’ blog and ‘how to windsurf’ blog complete with videos
-made some money off that</p>

<p>Any essay ideas? - I’m a pretty good writer</p>

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<p>Your grades are obviously fine.
32 well in the range that NU accepts. (More is always better, but I don’t think you really have much to worry about there).</p>

<p>ECs – EiC of the Newspaper, and Varsity Sport should be more than fine.</p>

<p>Golf – are you good enough to compete for NU?
Assuming no --</p>

<p>Of course you have a shot!! You’re a solid candidate. With NU, no one is a guaranty, but you should definately apply.</p>

<p>There are many ways to approach the essay. Personally, I like the ones where you share an anectdote about yourself that shows who you are, what makes you tick, how you’ve grown, how you accepted responsibility or showed maturity or something like that. If you can come up with a topic, I think they’re fairly easy to write, and since it’s not the same basic essay that the reviewer has read 50 times already that day they’re effective. However, I’m a parent, not an admissions officer, so what do I know?</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>