<p>My daughter, took SAT 1st test date of her jr year scored 2160.
She has been able to keep her 4.0 GPA
She attended a small private school 9th grade with 4.5 out of 4.5 gpa
then transferred to public hs with a International Baccalaureate Program so far has held her 4.0 out of 4.0 possible gpa; she shares #1 rank with maybe 8 other last quarter juniors. her main extra curricular has been participating in mock trial all hs years; she’s rec’ best witness freshman & soph year/regional level; best lawyer freshman yr./regional level; her team went to state competition soph. and jr. yrs. She’s in art club, Spanish club, has gone to univ. tennis camps (but is not on hs team) and NW Center for Talent Dev. Academic Camps (ie. pre-calc, physics); she’s a member of student leaders/student ambassador; will complete 150 hrs service/volunteer; may start working at local mall when she gets her license (she skipped 6th grade so she’s young jr.) She’s taken all the hardest classes her hs offers thru the IB program. She wants to retake the SAT with the aim to score higher.</p>
<p>Anyone have any experience with NW HPME program? what chances do you think she has of getting in? She’s also interested in Stanford. Is it likely that she may be offered $$/partial/free rides anywhere? all fb welcome THANKS!</p>
<p>There are plenty of places that would offer merit aid to a student like your D. Check the info pinned to the top of the Parents Forum and Financial Aid board.</p>
<p>the HPME program is one of the toughest in the nation. They have a pre-screening process just to get the application based on scores and GPA. that said, i think about 1000 get an application, and like 40 get into the program. so it’s really tough.</p>
<p>Also, that SAT score is low for the program. 2250+ is a good guideline. Also, i see no medical extracurriculars. you definitely need those.</p>
<p>The way merit aid generally work is that it gets more generous the more overqualified the student is for the college. You can look at the lists of merit aid schools on the parent’s forum and look for school where her stats are well over their 75th percentile numbers.</p>
<p>Northwestern HPME is perhaps the hardest program in the country to gain admissions to. It only offers application to 1000 or so, and then only accepts 4% of those. In reality, the percent of people who apply to apply and actually get in is probably at or under 1%. You need to have over a 2200 and tons of hours of medical ECs and maybe even research. Then, you have an average shot of getting in.</p>