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My other post was derailed by a fanatic.....

Rank: 9/174
SAT: 700V, 800M
SAT II: 740 Wr, 710 IIC, 750 Chem
APs: Chem 4, Gov 4

Taking 6 APs this year
Hardest courseload

ECs:
Pioneer Winter Swim Team (9-10)
Local Swim Team (Summer of 10-11)
Varsity Swimming (9-12)
Marching Band (9-12)
Concert Band (9-12)
Wind Ensemble (10-11)
Winter Show Band (12) *new*
Clubs
One Act Play (9-12)
Latin Club (9-12)
Math League (10-12)
Chess Club (11-12)
Newspaper Club (11-12)


Youth Group (9-12)
Chamber Music Concerts (9-11)
Junior Volunteer at Hospital 150+ hours


Sec. of Math League (11)
Co-founder and Admin. of Chess Club (11-12)
Treasurer, Section Leader, and Concert Master of the Band
Co-captain of the Swim Team (12)

****** Music Camp (Summer 9-10)
Piano Lessons (9-11)
Clarinet Lessons (9-12)


State University-Gifted Program (Summer 9th)
Classes Taken: Advanced Algebra/Pre-Calc/Trig (A), Computer Graphics 3 (A), Medieval History(A), Aquatic Know-How (A)
*Nontransferable credit courses*

UPenn Precollege Program (Summer 12th)
Classes Taken: Intro. to Exp. Psych
Grade: B+ *Taken for college credit*

Junior Region Band (9)
National Honors Society (11-12)
Latin Honors Society (10-12)
National Latin Exam-Silver Medal (10-11)
Area Band (10-11)
Nat. Youth Leadership Forum Nominee (11)
Boys State Alternate (11)
Counties Swimming (11)
800 Club Award (12)
National Merit Semi-Finalist (12)
******* Distinguished Scholar Award(12)

Awards/Honors for Piano
-PVMTA performance awards (9-11)
-PVMTA achievement awards (9-11)
- state audition awards-
3-year pin and 5-year pin for achievements in performance and music theory (9-11)
- National Fed. of Music Clubs-awards-
1st Gold Cup- 3 years of “Superior” (highest) score
2nd Gold Cup-5 years of “Superior” score (10)
Special small private performances in NYC (9-11)

Columbia, Cornell, Penn, Brown, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Vassar, BC.......what are my chances??

By Cyberiplex_Jim (Cyberiplex_Jim) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 04:27 pm: Edit

bump

By Athlonmj (Athlonmj) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 04:55 pm: Edit

Isnt it too late to apply now? - BTW I think your chances for everything is better than average... except for Columbia.

By Mjl86 (Mjl86) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 09:42 pm: Edit

you don't wanna apply to brown, jhu or cornell. apply to u of c instead. and it is too late!!! especially don't apply to Brown's PLME

By Cyberiplex_Jim (Cyberiplex_Jim) on Saturday, January 03, 2004 - 02:58 pm: Edit

Why not?.......and I've already applied....I just want to get an idea of my chances...

By Cyberiplex_Jim (Cyberiplex_Jim) on Saturday, January 03, 2004 - 05:32 pm: Edit

bump

By Nycdebater (Nycdebater) on Saturday, January 03, 2004 - 08:48 pm: Edit

with columbia...i think it depends on what program your applying too...definitely

By Cyberiplex_Jim (Cyberiplex_Jim) on Saturday, January 03, 2004 - 08:56 pm: Edit

all of these are CAS or some variation of....nothing like engineering or business

By Cyberiplex_Jim (Cyberiplex_Jim) on Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 08:07 pm: Edit

bump

By Akikaze (Akikaze) on Monday, January 05, 2004 - 12:27 am: Edit

Columbia will be a reach, especially in RD. I think you have as good a chance as anyone. That isn't very good, mind you, but feel happy that you have even that. I'd give you 25%.

Brown and Penn should be easier but also reaches. Brown is amazingly random and I can't offer you any number on that. Penn is perhaps 35-40%.

If you write beautiful essays for them, tack on 10 percentage points for Brown and Penn and 15 for Columbia.