'Tis the season...for chancing poor ED applicants who are REALLY freaked out! =)

Colleges & Universities Northwestern University
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<p>Basic Stuff:
Female, 17, Jewish, born in Israel (and am still an Israeli citizen), live in Ohio, three siblings</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.98 unweighed, 4.4 weighed
Rank: 20th out of about 600; top 3% of the class
Class schedule: mostly honors and AP classes except for graduation requirements (business, gym, languages, etc.)</p>

<p>Tests:
SAT:2250 V:800 M:720 W:730
ACT:34 E:35 R:34 M:34 S:33
Subject tests: US history:740 Lit:760 Math 1:750</p>

<p>AP:
US History: 5
English Language: 5
Statistics: 5
Planning to take English Lit, US Government, Physics (both of them), Calculus, Economics (Macro & Micro)</p>

<p>EC’s:
Marching band: sophomore and junior year
Pep band: all four years
Literary magazine: all four years (literary editor for 3)
TEAMS (selective physics/engineering competition): my team placed 1st in state and 4th in the nation
Model UN: senior year
National Honor Society: senior year
I have others, but this is all I really had room for on my app, and these are the biggest most important ones.</p>

<p>Other activities/awards:
Have played piano for 7 years and flute for 6
Did ballet for 10 years
Went to Northwestern’s CTD summer camp twice (took Psychology and Modern Political Theory)
Took online correspondence course from Northwestern (AP Psychology)
Legacy Heritage Internships for Young Scientists participant (spent 6 weeks doing physics research with professors at Hebrew University in Jerusalem)
National Merit Semifinalist, hopefully Finalist (PSAT: 224)
Won photography contest for Johns Hopkins’ Imagine magazine
Entered Siemens and Intel competitions
AP Scholar Award
Won Americanism & Government Test at my school
Offered publication in Imagine magazine; I’m writing an article about marching band later this year
Offered publication in CAMERA on Campus (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America); my article will come out later this year
Write for a blog about Israeli news and culture called Oznia </p>

<p>Community service:</p>

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<p>Jobs:
Monthly columnist for local Jewish newspaper</p>

<p>Languages:
Fluent Russian
2 years of French
Have been learning Hebrew for the past 3 years</p>

<p>Other plans for senior year:
Complete 50-hour service project for NHS
Complete 40-hour Israel advocacy project for LHIYS (will probably involve writing)
Write for several pro-Israel publications</p>

<p>I applied to Medill ED…</p>

<p>“Don’t nobody bring me no bad news.” =)</p>

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<p>Don’t even begin to worry.</p>

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<p>^
I think that sums it up xD</p>

<p>Anyway, since you’re still an Israeli citizen did you apply as an international student or no?</p>

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<p>^No, I’m a permanent resident so I didn’t need to.</p>

<p>Thanks for the reassurance…CC is like my personal college counselor, mom, and shrink all in one. =)</p>

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<p>You’re in if you can sell yourself well.</p>

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<p>would someone pleeeaase do me? my old thread is dead, nobody answereddd. I WILL BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL, EVEN IF YOU TELL ME I SUCK LOL.</p>

<p>I knowww there are so many of these but I’m going NUTS.
I’m a canadian student at an excellent IB school and I applied ED to Northwestern (when students at my school do choose to go to States, they go to very good universities i.e. Yale, MIT, Northwestern, NYU… top 30 for sure. also awesome liberal arts colleges…):</p>

<p>We don’t have GPAs, but my IB score is about 35-36 (without EE and TOK so its not out of 45, it’s out of 42)
We also don’t have school rankings but I’m definitely in the top 25% of my grade. 60 kids in grade and i’m in top 12-15 </p>

<p>SATS:
CR 730
M 650
W 760
(1380 or 2140 composite)</p>

<p>Academics: (IB)
3 HL (English A1, Theatre Arts, French B, 3 SL (Math Studies, Bio, History)
I have 5 6s and 7 in all my classes.
Fair amount of Academic Prizes… one national, some regional some school level</p>

<p>Extracurricular:

  • MUN (Executive Committee Senior Member, awards at competitions)
  • Piano/Dance (Grade 8 + Grade 2 Theory, Highest possible level in dance classes)
  • Volunteered at a kids rehab center (29 hours overall)
  • LIT at my summer camp (Honours awards for that)
  • Religious 2-week March for Israel thing. </p>

<p>I wrote my Personal Essay for Commonapp about like my different escapes into books, theatre, etc…</p>

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<p>Ummm I’d say in for sure. Especially in ED.</p>

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<p>@bank1019 - me or nutterbutter? =) (hopefully both)</p>

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<p>Oh lol sorry, I only chanced you sondosia. I wouldn’t worry about the competitiveness of Medill, I’d still say in for you. I’m incredibly jealous of your stats!</p>

<p>nutterbutter- we have similar SAT scores (1420, 2100) but I’m not sure how the IB scores work, so it’s difficult for me to chance you. :/</p>

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<p>sondosia if u don’t get in then there is no hope for the rest of us!</p>

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<p>Thanks guys…I hope we all make it in and never have to stalk a forum this much ever again. =)</p>

<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>

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<p>i know i can’t do any hw all i do is refresh this thing in hope that someone got some sort of mail or an email!!! fskafdakl</p>

<p>if only nu knew how much they were torturing us!</p>

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<p>HAHAHAHAHAHH ATUROF THAT’S WHAT I’VE BEEN DOING SINCE LIKE 4 PM . saaad life ED we are.</p>

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<p>ps. if anyone reading this knows about IB grades pleease chance me :D!!!</p>

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<p>yes, a very sad life =(</p>

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<p>Well, yeah, here’s the loser who posted a chance me thread when not only has my application been submitted, but it’s also already been DECIDED. =)</p>

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<p>lol sondosia- I’ll be honest, if admitted, I’ll probably still stalk these boards…</p>

<p>To meet classmates!</p>

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<p>Haha, me too. It’d be great if a bunch of us got in and then all hung out together once we get to NU…relive those glory days of not doing any homework and just stalking cc all day long…</p>

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<p>hahaha “glory days” is subjective… i’ll be embarrassed to look back on this if, say, i fail my exams because i was busy stalking CC lolllll</p>

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<p>That would be awesome if we all got in and were able to meet up next year.</p>

<p>Just hoping I’ll be there. ><</p>