What are my chances

Colleges & Universities Northwestern University
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<p>Stacey
GPA: 4.0 U ~ 4.4 on about a 4.7 scale W
Rank: 1/300+
Sat: all 3 are around 700
Black Female from Georgia
(Second generation immigrant)
Activities:</p>

<p>9th Grade:
-Chamber Orchestra
-Varsity Track and Field
-French Club
-Member of Gifted Program
-Habitat for Humanity
-Salutatorian
-Most Outstanding Biology Honors Student
-Most Outstanding World Geography Honors Student
-Perfect Attendance Certificate
-Principal’s Honor Roll</p>

<p>—Member of Magnet Performing Arts Program
—The Women (play)
—Most Outstanding Drama 1 Female</p>

<p>10th Grade:</p>

<p>-Chamber Orchestra
-Varsity Track and Field
-Beta Club
-Most Academic Track Student Award
-Math Team
-Powder Puff 2003 Participant
-Member of Gifted Program*</p>

<p>—Showcase (theatre)
—The Star Spangled Girl (Costume)
—The Nerd (assistant stage manager)
—Excellence in GHP Showcase Award
—Governor’s Honors Program State Nominee (theatre)</p>

<p>-NHS
-FHS
-Junior Civitans
-SADD
-Peer Mediation
-Most Outstanding Tenth Grade Science Student
-Perfect Attendance Certificate
-Principal’s Honor Roll
-Valedictorian
-Top Team Scorer at all Math Tournaments
-Most Athletic Track and Field member</p>

<p>11th Grade:</p>

<p>-Students Leadership Team (SLT)
—Publicity Co-Chair
-Washington Mutual Internship
-Falcon Frenzy
-Historian for FHS
-Historian for French Club
-Valedictorian
-Peer Mediation
-NHS*
-Member of Gifted Program*</p>

<p>—Romeo and Juliet
— Ensemble of Atlanta (member of professional theatre company)
— A Dime A Story
—West Side Story (props)
—Yale Summer Session (theatre)
—Elektra
—Sylvia (sound)
—Showcase
—Side Show
—The Diviners
—Governor’s Honors Program Finalist (theatre)</p>

<p>-BETA
-Georgia Certificate of Merit Scholar
-SADD
-Perfect Attendance Award
-Most Outstanding French 5 Student
-Most Outstanding Analysis Student
-Most Outstanding AP Physics Student
-Most Outstanding U.S History Honors Student
-Girl’s State (summer leadership/gov’t program)</p>

<p>12th Grade:</p>

<p>-BETA Club
-Peer Mediation
-SADD
-French Club
-SLT Publicity Chair
-NHS Projects Chair
-FHS President
—Noises Off (Belinda)</p>

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<p>So you’re ranked #1 in your school, but find it important to come on here and let everyone know that you “don’t know your chances?”</p>

<p>Please. Toot your own horn elsewhere and at least not under the guise of being unsure about your chances.</p>

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<p>actually i don’t want to “toot my own horn” I posted my stats here to get an honest opinion from a member of the theatre program about my chances. And considering that members of the theatre program are highly accomplished i think it is important that i should compare myself to them. Theatre is my hook, and at Northwestern I’m sure being #1 isn’t important, it’s not a guise. And if i wanted to “toot my horn” i’d go to a discussion board where the average participant doesn’t have a 4.0+ gpa, 1550/1600 on the old SAT, and all sorts of other elitist qualifications…thanks!</p>

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<p>Alrighty, then. Based on your information, no I don’t think you have a good chance at all.</p>

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<p>thanks for the thoughts</p>

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<p>A definite reach unless you play the AA card.</p>

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<p>^^^ are you a part of the theatre program?</p>

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<p>Haha… wow.</p>

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<p>I am in the theatre program, and I also find this a bit obnoxious…if you’re the top science, math, french, everything student, doing theatre while also heading other student groups…you’re fine. You have absolutely no reason to worry (not that anyone’s guarenteed, but you have a great chance), and absolutely no reason to come and ask about chances. </p>

<p>If you have questions about the theatre program, great, I’d be happy to answer them. I appriciate your accomplishments (we’re all overachievers here, it’s true), but listing stats that are obviously not borderline isn’t necessary.</p>