Northwestern Summer Cherubs What Should I Do?!

kaitilyn711
Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:31:39 +0000

Hello! I’m a rising junior who’s extremely interested in becoming a broadcast journalist. As most know the prestigious Northwestern University has an amazing summer cherubs workshop which is five weeks of nonstop journalism amazingness and i really would LOVE to be accepted. So i’m wondering from others what i should do to really get myself totally prepared.
As far as accademics go i fluctuated between a weighted GPA of 3.4-3.5 and non weighted of 3.2-3.4 my high school gives a GPA boost to those in honors classes. My courses have been so far
Freshman Year- Honors Geometry, Physical Science, English, American History, and French Then a Band class and a Jazz Band class.
Sophomore Year- AP World History, Honors English, Chemistry, and French 4. And my additional two band classes.
My junior year schedule consist of- IB English, History, and French, AP statistics, Honors Biology, two band classes and forsaking my lunch bell in order to take part in the publications class offered at my school.

As for clubs and such I’m involved in my high school Marching Band, Jazz Combo(which plays volunteer gigs at nursing homes and such outside school hours), Theater Productions (in the orchestra as well as acting), Community Outreach at my church, Pasta for Pennies for Leukemia Lymphoma Society committee, Debate Team (vice president), Diversity Day organization comittee, and Day of Silence(for gay rights) Class of 2012 representative. I’ll also be attending the 8 day summer journalism workshop at Georgetown University for 8 days this summer.

So will my massive extracurricular load offset my less than stellar grades? I’m aware you must be in the top 25% of your class to even be considered which i am, so i’m just wondering where do i need to go from here to perhaps make myself stand out more?