wait and see ~ painful

Colleges & Universities Northwestern University
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<p>I have quickly become addicted to this site :slight_smile: :frowning:
My D has apps in for RD and now it is wait and see. Painful for all of us!
Applied to
Ohio Northern ~ accepted, Deans scholar at this point, safety
Miami of Ohio ~ waiting match/safety
Northwestern ~ waiting match/reach
Public school
3.9 uw GPA 4.2659 wt GPA
Rank 3 of 361 seniors
ACT 26 (blew science)
SAT 610 m 590 w 470 cr
*doesn’t test well
taken 5 of 8 AP’s offered
AP Eng III
AP Eng IV
AP US
AP EURO
AP CHEM
AP scholar
All others were/are CP
French I,II, and III IV not offered</p>

<p>EC’s
Student Council 1yr
Theatre 1 yr
key club 3yrs (officer 2 yrs, attended state conference 2 yrs, awarded most volunteer hours)
marching band 4 yrs nationally award winning band
squad leader 2 years
school district honors band 1 yr
symphonic band 4 yrs
jazz band 1 yr.
NHS
National Society of High School Scholars
Top 25 academic awards 4 yrs.
honor roll 4 yrs
renaissance award 4 yrs</p>

<p>works a part time job</p>

<p>major ~ international studies and poly sci
scheduled a NU interview for upcoming weekend ~ will drive 3 hrs each way for 30 min interview. Believe it is important to put a face and personality to the scores</p>

<p>What do you think?</p>

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<p>a SAT score that low will make it difficult for your D to make any top 30 schools. My GPA (around a 3.4, 3.5) was the greatest wekaness in my app, but i got a 2140, microsoft internship/rec, wrote solid essays and i got flat out rejected doing Early Decision (which is 50 percent acceptance rate). To make the top schools nowadays, a person has to exhibit strength in every facet of their application unless your D has special legacy, money, famous etc.</p>

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<p>the SAT score is low, but your D does have a chance. the interview will be important, and the essays will be critical. NU puts a lot of stock into what you write in the essays. did she do the common app or NU’s own app. the NU app is much more time consuming than the common, so if she did the NU one, it could possibly pay off for her. good luck to her.</p>

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<p>yea, i wouldn’t say northwestern’s a match… But your son has applied already, so wait and see.</p>

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<p>aaahh sorry, daughter.</p>

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<p>i would say that its more of a reach than a match… but then again a low SAT isnt as bad as a lower GPA</p>

<p>good luck to your daughter!</p>

<p>(can you tell me how you scheduled your interview?)</p>

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<p>Match ~ I simply meant that we believe she would be a good fit there. She loved the campus when we toured last June. We know it is a reach with her ACT and SAT scores. She filled out the common app and the NU supplement.
She received a post card about the interviews but we were never able to access the web address from the card. We found a different web address on this site. Actually that is how we came across this site. We went to that site, plugged in our zip and found that the interviews had already taken place in our city. I went to other zip codes in our state and found an interview in a city 3 hours away. We registered right online at that time and they sent a confirmation email. We also printed off the pages from the computer as well. Interview is at 10A, it was either that or 9:30A sO I figure they are 30 min. I really think that this will give her the chance to put a face and personality with the name and scores. Her GPA, weighted and nonweighted are good as well as the number of AP’s she has taken for what our district offers and all others classes have been either accelerated or CP. She works hard and I know that sounds so cliche, but she has great drive. We have no money as she is the oldest of 4, her father is a full time student and I am a teacher. SO there is no leagcy etc. only the desire to work at the UN or an embassy.</p>