Deferred, anyone know the acceptance rate?

JayIsArtwork
Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:37:00 +0000

Northeastern is my top choice, but I was deffered. I am a nervous wreck, can anyone give me an estimate if I’ll be accepted in the RD pool come April?

GPA: 3.8 unweighted, 4.4 weighted
Class Rank: 190/950, Top 20% (My school is very competitive, we are, or at least were, the largest high school in terms of population in the country)
SAT: Reading: 600, Math: 490, Writing: 550
SAT II: Literature: 580, US History: 550
APs: AP Psychology (5, junior year), AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, AP Government, AP Literature (all senior year)
Mostly Honors classes-except 3 math classes, physics, and chemistry-math is my weak spot.
Mostly A’s with some B’s
4 years of high school Spanish
Award recognizing my work in English by my school
Silver Cord at graduation for my # of service hours
301 Service Hours so far
People to People Student Ambassador Program trip to China
Mother is an alumni (so is my uncle and older cousin, should I mention this in a letter? There was no place to add this in the CommonApp)
I am Hispanic
I did a campus tour and info. session in the summer (does this even help at all?)

Essay- Great, my advantage is that I’m a great writer, it was on my experience in the aforementioned China trip where I was quarantined for 7 days b/c the government thought me and others had Swine Flu and how that and my other extensive travels have affected my life.
Recs- Great, I had, and continue to have, great relationships with these teachers (I don’t think I sent an extra one in though, should I?)

I realize that the SAT scores are dominating their decision process, but I am a bad test taker, should I keep taking it as much as I can until April to boost any chance I have left?