Chances ED at NU's Radio/Television/Film Program: School of Communications

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<p>Chances ED at NU’s Radio/Television/Film Program
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
High School: Highly Competitive Private College Preparatory Boarding School. It is a top boarding school on the West Coast.<br>
Cumulative GPA (Freshman/Sophomore/Junior): 4.08 (Have never received below a 4.0 for any trimester)
Current Rank in Class: 3/150: top 2%
Number of honors/AP courses that will be taken throughout high school career: 10
Sophomore Year AP European History: 4
Junior Year: AP Biology: 5 AP U.S History: 4<br>
Proposed Senior Year Class Schedule: AP AB Calculus/AP World History/AP English/AP Environmental Science
SAT 1: 1900 (I realize this is very low for Northwestern) I will be retaking in September. I am just not the best test taker in the world, so I am not counting on bringing them up that much.
SATII’s: Bio: 730 US History: 670
Awards:
Junior Cume Laude Member: Top 5% academically in class.
9 time achiever of high honor roll (must be or above 4.0) There are usually 8 members each trimester.
Winner of the University of Rochester Award for humanities and social sciences
Extra Curriculars’/Community Service
Radio
Very Active 4 year Participant at High School’s Student Run Radio Station:
Largest Student Run High School Radio Station in America: Signal reaches 1.5 million people over 4 different counties: 1,000 watts: Non commercial station that operates 24/7
Freshman Year: Youngest member in school to acquire their own weekly 3 hour radio show. I was also Sports Broadcaster
Sophomore Year: Sports Director on Station’s Staff. Youngest staff member. Broadcasted (Play-by-play)/organized 21 different sporting events live (Football/Basketball/Baseball/Golf). A representative for the station at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Las Vegas. I also had a 3 hour weekly radio show. Head journalist for the station at the AT&T National Pro/AM Golf tournament. Pledge drive coordinator: raised around 10,000 dollars
Junior Year: Youngest station manager (head staff position) in the radio station’s 35 year old history. In charge of teaching/leading 250 other broadcasters. Lead play-by play sports broadcaster for 20 different sporting events (Football/Basketball/Golf). Second year representative at the NAB and the AT&T National Pro/AM Golf Tournament. I also had about two weekly radio shows (6 hours on air time combined= not including sports broadcasts). Second year as Pledge Drive Coordinator: At this point a record amount of money has been raised.</p>

<p>Senior Year: Will be station manager (highest position) again. I will also have a weekly radio show and do all of the play-by-play broadcasting. Everything will be pretty much the same as it was during the junior year.
Summer Experiences in Radio: Have interned/worked at three different commercial radio stations. I have also done pledge drives for the high school station.</p>

<p>Other extracurricular/community Service: I won’t go into as much explanation with these activities as I did for radio.
Student Government: 10th, 11th 12th
Community Partnership for youth: 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Green Key (school tour guide): 10th, 11th, 12th
Senior/Community Forum (Guide/Teach a Freshman Class): 12th
Summer Camp Counselor: 10th
Two year summer intern for Federal Congressman: 9th, 10th
Varsity Tennis: 9th, 10th, 11th
Football: 9th
Essay: Very Good
Recs: Very Good</p>

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<p>I don’t comment on chances thread, so I won’t really offer any insights into your likelihood of getting in, but obviously you’re very radio oriented and I was just wondering how much you knew about the RTVF program. It’s mostly film, a bit of TV, and so far I haven’t seen one class on radio when I was registering for classes (I’m in the program). Unless you’re considering sound design, which we do have a certificate in, I just thought I’d let you know that in terms of curriculum, the program, hardly, if at all, focuses on radio.</p>