<p>I am currently a junior with like a 3.69 UW and 5.26 on 6.0 scale/ top 11% of my graduating class but have a 2290 SAT and EC’s:
Tennis team (planning on 2 years JV, 2 year varsity)
Debate team ( 1 year novice, 3 years Varsity + 2 year UIL district)
Historian in animal shelter club- 4 years
Treasurer in African Libraries Project Club - 2 years
National Honor Society- 2 years
EXCEL president- 1 year
have worked on fundraising with an orphanage in India for many years(since I was a child)
SAT 2s: bio M:770 more by this year.
APs: bio 5; world history 3 
more by this year.
Worked in a Gastroenterologist’s office for about a 3 years or so.
300 hours so far in hospital more pending
40 in animal shelter.
I am also legacy; my dad went to the school of management.
Do I have a decent shot? at all?</p>
<p>I’d say your biggest fault is only taking 2 APs</p>
<p>Your SAT and EC’s are very strong. Your class rank is nothing to worry about either. Legacy should really help you. Northwestern loves legacies…</p>
<p>I have a 3.7 unweighted but a 2300 so we’re similar candidates… I’d say you have a fair shot.</p>
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<p>I don’t think NU expects you to take many AP courses Junior year. My school sends ~20-25 kids to NU every year (admits ~50 per year) and most only took 1-2 APs Junior year.</p>
<p>well, i will have taken a total of 6 APs before i apply and about 4 more my senior year, as well as 4 more sat 2’s. Also does Northwestern look at the course load? because I’m taking possibly one of the hardest paths in terms of course load that our school offers. also our school is the top in the district and extremely competitive. Does any of that count towards admissions?</p>
<p>My son got into Northwestern with 3.45 GPA and 2350 SAT. So it is possible to get in with low GPA and high test scores. But he had five AP exams with scores 4 and 5. Also showed passion for music.</p>
<p>i had a lower gpa but redeeming ACT score and my grandpa went to NU. You’ve got a shot.</p>
<p>a 2290 isn’t particularly high for northwestern. having said that, a 3.69 isn’t particularly low either. assuming your courseload is tough (it should be), both those numbers are in northwestern’s ballpark. it’s when you have figures as discrepant as mine that you start to worrry (3.1 GPA, 2370 SAT, seven 5s for APs)</p>
<p>a 2290 isn’t particularly high for NU…? Really?? I was under the imperssion that the average was low 2200 high 2100</p>
<p>You are probably less than one standard deviation from the norm: therefore, you’re scores are “good” but not eye-popping.</p>
<p>2290 is the same as DS and at or above the 75th percentile for NW. DS was 3.6UW, 3.7UW after this semester and around 12% class rank. I call DS a low reach and you a high match due to your legacy and ECs.
Good luck!</p>
<p>Oh please, when you think about people who entered with hooks or as legacies and so on, the 75th percentile doesn’t mean a score is ‘good’ in the sense that the OP seems to suggest - that is, for the SAT to become enough of an attraction for adcoms to ‘overlook’ his GPA. By the way, the idea that one factor could ‘override’ another is not true unless that factor is a unique hook.</p>