***Official Northwestern ED 2016 Results Thread***

collegeguyyeah
Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:03:43 +0000

I know its super late, but I’m finally getting around to post my stats.

Decision: Rejected WCAS

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2040 (680 680 680)
[] ACT: 31 Combined
[] SAT II: 710 USH, 720 Bio-M
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.91
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/450
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): 554 (world, us, lang)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Psych, AP Calc, AP Gov, AP Biology, AP Lit
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, Regional French Competition First Prize [/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): I self studied French and Germanic languages all throughout high school, I tutored chemistry at my school all senior year, (Founder and President) both the Photography and Film Photography Club at my school, NHS, (Founder and President) of a very quirky/nerdy book related club at my school, Black Belt in Taekwondo, extreme video game collector (didn’t actually put that on my application lol… but I seriously do that)
[] Job/Work Experience: Tutoring throughout all four high school years
[] Volunteer/Community service: I volunteered for a local political party during the 2010 elections, I was in Key Club in 9th grade, I do various acts with my local chapter of NHS, I volunteer at an animal shelter almost every weekend for the past 3 years
[] Summer Activities: Traveled to Europe and Central America with my school (two different years)
[] Essays: I thought they were all pretty good and showed who I am but I’m not the best writer around. I thought there was great personality though.
[] Teacher Recommendation: I had two of them sent. I didn’t read them but suspect they were good. One of them isn’t a good writer but it was from the teacher who teaches the hardest class at my school.
[] Counselor Rec: Probably really good but I didn’t read it either. Hopefully she is a good writer. She really likes me.
[] Additional Rec: Didn’t send one.
[li] Interview: I didn’t get one, but I did visit! [/li]
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): AZ
[] Country (if international applicant): USA
[] School Type: Crappy public (the school is less than 10 years old and barely off its feet)
[] Ethnicity: My mom is from a latin country so I marked that, but I also said I refer to and think of myself as a white European on commonapp since that’s on my birth certificate (you can have a white caucasian latino…ethnicity markings are stupid)
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: I don’t know, between 100k-120k but we already have one kid in my family at a private school with 6 people in my family
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Maybe geographic [/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Rank, GPA, SAT Subjects, Interest, Possibly essays (in my mind)
[] Weaknesses: SAT I scores, my school, no interview, white, no awesome research, no awesome competitions, no academic teams at my school
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected ED at Northwestern and nowhere else so far

[/ul]General Comments: It sure did suck getting denied. I cried for a bit. Now its ok and there are other colleges I want more. Sucks that they are more selective than NU! Good luck tomorrow guys (or next week)