<p>I was in Chicago yesterday, waiting to go to U Chicago. We had some spare time and walked around here; I loved it! Chances, anyone?</p>
<p>GPA: I want to say 3.9 out of 4?
Rank: Somewhere between 2 and 8 out of 300
Public School</p>
<p>SAT I: 780 M 750 CR 710 W
SAT II: 740 Chem 800 Math II (Maybe taking Lit and Physics and retaking Chem)
AP: Chemistry 5
English Lit (Senior Year)
Physics B (Senior Year)
Calc AB (Senior Year)
…My school doesn’t have many APs</p>
<p>ECs:
-Destination Imagination (Friend and I introduced the program to the school, team recieved highest award, The Da Vinci Award)
-Varsity Math Team (Scored #2 Highest Scoring Junior in Tri-State League)
-National Honors Society
-Winnacore (Basically an Honors Society for Community Service)
-52 current hours of comm. service now, about 80-100 by December)
-Tutored two students in Chemistry
-One year of JV Tennis (Sad, I know, but the following years, schedules conflicted and my coach wouldn’t budge)
-One year of Astronomy Club (School ended due to funding)
-National Latin Exam: An award every year so far</p>
<p>Things of Note:
-Work as a Camp Counselor during the summer, sometimes do things for that department for the year. The Director said that she would write me a recommendation
-My dad went to BC for undergrad, Maryland for Grad, Harvard for Post-Doc
-My mom went to BC for undergrad, Columbia for Dental, and Johns Hopkins for her residency</p>
<p>I think you are going to find the same generic answer on this board. This year is going to be tough for everybody, yes even the 2240, 3.9GPAers with hundreds of ECs to get into the top 20 schools.</p>
<p>No guarantees, but your chances are very good. Northwestern tends to shoot pretty straight - certainly straighter than most - in undergraduate admissions. You have excellent standardized test scores, grades, and EC’s of which you should be proud. </p>
<p>Chemistry, by the way, is an incredibly strong department at NU - consistently top 10 nationally ranked. Nanotechnology stars like Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Chad Mirkin have made Northwestern a destination for anyone looking to do cutting edge research.</p>
<p>Nanotechnology still has yet to define itself as an independent entity. It remains an amalgum of Chemistry along with MatSci, ChemE, and BioE as principal players. At Northwestern and many other centers the lead players are chemists. It was mentioned because of NU’s leadership in the field and because “Nanotechnology is widely viewed as the most significant technological frontier currently being explored.”</p>
<p>Mirkin and Stoddart (both Chemists) are international stars in the field. Mirkin directs the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) which is Northwestern’s joint venture with the Argonne National Laboratories.</p>
<p>Just last week, Mirkin published in Science a new breakthrough Polymer Pen Lithography technique that will allow printing on the nanometer scale. His “Olympic Logo” demonstration of this was just profiled. Cute application of a concept I can only begin to understand.</p>
<p>Sorry, I should’ve been more careful- I meant department rather than field. I did a tutorial with a material sciences grad student working on a biological-biotechnological project, and he made it seem like regardless of your specific field of methodology, nanotechnology was considered a materials science field since the goals were to yield nano-scale materials.</p>
<p>I understand there is a new dorm offering: GREEN that will have an ecological footprint emphasis for residents. IMHO, given the high level of ECs that accepted applicants have been involved in, the activities of NU students are varied, and deep. My DD is involved in a variety of academic and social venues-many of which were not even in my vocabulary when i went to college! g’Luck! APOL-a mom</p>
<p>I think you’re either misusing the word notorious, or mixing up two things.</p>
<p>Our administration-Evanston relationship is somewhat strained (a huge and complex issue, which I tend to side with the University on objectively).</p>