Finished my application for Northwester....please chance me!!

Colleges & Universities Northwestern University
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<p>(Engineering)</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT Verbal: 650</li>
<li>SAT Math: 750</li>
<li>SAT Writing: 680</li>
<li>SAT Total: 2080</li>
<li>SAT II: 770 Chem 760 Math 680 Physics</li>
<li>ACT:</li>
<li>AP/IB taken/scores: 4:Chem and Physics B</li>
<li>GPA weighted:4.46</li>
<li>GPA unweighted:</li>
<li>Rank or % estimate: <10%</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: Great</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Great</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Great</li>
<li>Hook (if any): 1st generation?</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: NY</li>
<li>School Type: Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: M</li>
<li>Legacy Yes/No: N</li>
<li>Recruited Yes/No: N</li>
<li>Important ECs:
Math Team 3 years-varsity- 1st in the county
Science NHS 2 years- science team participant; tutor
Spanish NHS 2 years- tutor; volunteer
Flag Football 3 years
Asian Cultural Club 3 years
Volunteering 4 years- veterans home, retirement home, YMCA
Tutoring 4 years for math, science, history, english, spanish (through Guidance)
Medicine club 2 years</li>
</ul>

<p>Also applying to:</p>

<p>Northwestern, JHU, Penn, Duke, Cornell, Rice, UMich, Georgetown, Washington University at St. Louis, University of Chicago, Emory, UC LA, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Cooper Union</p>

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<p>To be perfectly honest, nothing in your application stands out…and probably won’t compete among the thousands of applicants against you. You have no leadership positions in your clubs that I see and your stats aren’t good enough to make up for your weak ECs. It is my inexperienced opinion that all of the colleges you mentioned are reaches. That is, unless you have the most amazing, personal, insightful essay ever.</p>

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<p>that’s a bit harsh. it’s true that your scores are lower than the medians at many of those schools. but you have respectable ECs, including a record of volunteering that will help you. hopefully your great essays can carry your application. be sure to apply to safeties as well.</p>

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<p>I’m not an experienced chancer, but wanted to comment: 15 schools seem like a lot to apply for, especially when the 15 doesn’t include safeties. Yeesh, that’s a ton of work. To each his own, I suppose.</p>

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<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Your chances are probably fair, not great because of the SATs, although the math and science scores are mostly strong. ECs are good; geography and ethnicity are of no special interest. If you want percentages, your chances probably fall within a few points of the admit rate (which I think is about 25%)</p>

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<p>As a student who had similar STATS (actually a bit lower SATs), and some better ECs, I got waitlisted in:
JHU, Cornell, UMich
rejected:
Duke, UPenn
accepted:
Emory.
(This was last year). </p>

<p>If anything, I would presume you will get similar results because most of those unis have similar rankings/admission rates. Highly recommend some safeties</p>

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<p>You have some good hooks, but i think you will be going against students with perfect SAT scores, but you do have a really good GPA!</p>

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<p>thanks everyone…any one else have anything to add?</p>

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<p>I don’t think it’s that bad… You’ll have a shot.</p>