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I'd really appreciate it if you guys comment on my chances to Northwestern!
------------stats:

SAT I: 1480 (math: 780, verbal: 700)
SAT II: Physics 760 Writing 720 Math IIC: 800 World History: 750
GPA: 4.4 W / 4.0 UW
Rank: 5 / 1251 --> top 1%

------------Schedule (academic classes):

Freshman:

Spanish 1 Honors A+
Chemistry Honors A+
Algebra 2 Honors A+
Geometry Honors A+
Geography Honors A+
English Honors A+


Sophomore:

Spanish 2 Honors A
World History AP A+ (5 on AP)
PreCal Honors A+
Biology Honors A
English Honors A
Latin 1 A+

Junior:

Economics IB A+ (7 on IB, 5 on Micro/Macro AP)
Comp Sci IB A+
Spanish 3 IB A
English 3 IB A+ (4 on AP lang)
Physics 1 IB A+ (6 on IB)
Calculus BC AP A (5 on AP)


Senior

Comp Sci 2 IB
Spanish 4 IB
English 4 IB
Calculus IB
Philosophy IB
Physics C AP
US History (distance learning) A
Mutivariable Calculus (Stanford University EPGY)

------Volunteer Work:

-around 50 hours at Teen Court
-around 150 hours at school office
-around 50 hours tutoring elementary school children
-around 30 for a math teacher
-NHS volunteer work

------EC:

-Academic Decathlon 2 years (maximum possible) Team Captain
-FBLA 3 years
-NHS 3 years
-Math Team 3 years
-Spanish Pan American 2 years
-UT Austin Honors Colloquium Summer Program
-Soccer and tennis during summers (not for school)

-----Awards:
national:
- AP Scholar with Honor
-National Merit Commend Scholar
With AcDec:
-1st place: state economics, regional economics
-2nd place state math, regional interview
-3rd place state social studies, regional social studies, regional math
With FBLA:
-2nd place: business regional, computer regional
school awards:
-Academic achievement awards: AP history, biology, latin, comp sci
-District's Excellence in education award

----Jobs:
-created, updated, and managed the Website for a custom home building company
-i also take care of all other computer related tasks w/ that company
-approximately 3 hours per week for four years


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I immigrated to United States four years ago from Iran. During my freshman and sophomore year i was very busy improving my english by attending after school classes, so i rarely had time for ECs. I hope i at least mitigated the situation by joining AcDec during my junior year! If any of my SAT scores are low, I can also retake them during fall. Anyways, thank you so much for reading this.

By Madd87 (Madd87) on Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 11:13 pm: Edit

Whats the difference between AP BC Calculus and Calculus IB?

By Paulhomework (Paulhomework) on Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 12:39 am: Edit

As strange as it might sound, Calculus IB is not just calculus. Although around 70% of class time is spent on calculus (topics similar to AB calc), the rest is spent on statistics, probablity, matrices, vectors, logic, etc. which are part of the IB Math exam.

I really did not want to take it; however, IB regulations force you to take the class in order to take the exam (unlike AP), and since I have to take a math exam, I had to repeat calc too.

Anyways, i'm still going beyond the most advance course my school's offering (BC) by taking multivariable.

Do you think an adcom would understand the situation if I explain it in the Additional Info section?