Right track for Northwestern?

pkmontag
Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:56:12 +0000

UW GPA 4.0 W GPA 4.4

Ultra competitive public high school
5000 students
best non merit based school in state

State:Illinois(will being in-state help?)

was a transfer student coming into my school so i got placed into lower classes than i would’ve been in with the exception of English cause i just suck in that

School dosent allow AP’s freshman year

Acc=4.5 weighted GPA

surrounded by white spots =class was only 1 semester

Freshman year------------ 1st Semester----------------2nd Semester
Algebra 2 Honors-----------A ------------------------- A
Biology Accelerated--------A --------------------------A
Intro to business-----------A -------------------------- -
Computer Programmer Acc----- - ----------------------A+
English-------------------A- ---------------------------A-
World History-------------A+ --------------------------A+

got an unfair teacher for Algebra freshman year so i got lower grades

Sophomore Year
Geometry Honors---------A+ ------------------------------A+
Chem Acc----------------A -------------------------------A+
Marketing---------------- A ------------------------------- -
Entrepreneurship---------- - -------------------------------A+
English------------------- A- -----------------------------A-
AP human geography------ A --------------------------------A+
Chinese------------------ A+ --------------------------------A Health(required)----------- - --------------------------------A+

Junior Year-Currently taking
Precalc honors
AP Physics B
AP computer science
English Acc
AP US history
Chinese 2 Acc
Drivers Ed (required)

Expected course load senior yr
AP Calc BC
AP Physics C
AP Bio
AP Macro
AP Micro
chinese 3 Acc
English acc (might change to AP)

Extracurricular
FBLA 3 yrs- office posistion this year
started an IT club-officer posistion
Model UN 4 yrs
Scholastic bowl (quiz bowl) 4 yrs
NHS 2 yrs

Volunteering
100 hours from various organization through a community service club in school-will that just show inconsistency
going to get 100 hrs by end of yr from a hospital
got about 50 random hrs
-organized volunteer opportunities for a religious organization near me Sophomore year

Awards
got 3rd place in regional
then 1st place in State
then went to nationals for FBLA

got an award from my school for winning state

-Overall, pretty weak anything i can do to improve my chances?
btw, i havent taken SAT,ACT yet
taking SAT subject test Chemistry Nov 1st dont know how that will go
expecting about 2100 on SAT and around 31 or 32 on ACT