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Hey, I would really appreciate if you could tell me what my chances are, I'm currently a junior, I also live in Idaho (will this help at all)I'm also applying ED to Tisch film and television. thanks!

Freshman Year:
Acc. Algebra
Acc. History
Acc. English
science
Art
Speech/tech reading (req'd)
Yearbook- editor
GPA, 1st sem: 3.7 2nd Sem: 3.8

Sophmore year:
Acc. Geometry
Acc. english
Acc. Chemistry
German
Drawing
Western Cib
1st sem: 4.0 2nd Sem: 3.8

Junior year:
AP US History
AP English
AP Biology
Yearbook- copy editor
German 2
Pre-calulus

Senior year: This is what I'm taking next year
AP Physics
AP Stats
AP English
AP Euro
German 3
Yearbook- hopefully editor in-chief
Zero hour: AP Econ

EC's
-Piano- 13 years
-Soccer- 13 years
-Cello- 6 years
-Bagpipe :-)- 3 years
-Aviation- 2 years
-F/X make-up- 2 years
-Girl scouts- 10 years
-Boise youth radio- 2 years
-Treasure valley TV- 2 years
-I'm also working with an independent film company filming behind-the scenes documentarys.

Volunteer:
-Idaho VA- 2 1/2 years (2X weekly- 6+ hours/wk)
I might be receiving an award for my volunteering done soon.
-MK nature center- 2 years
-Botanical gardens- 2 years
-Knock em' dead dinner theatre- 2 years
-Stagecoach theatre- 2 years
-Idaho food bank- 1 year
-Shakespeare festival
-Race for the cure- annually for five years

Honors and Awards:
-Bronze congressional awards (2004)
-Will finish my silver congressional award next summer
- Artist choice by freshman class
- Most accomplished artist- highest honor by art teacher.
- High school honor roll (9,10,probably 11,12)
- Yearbook editor
(9,11)
probably a couple more....

School clubs/activites
- Film club-(11,12) co-founder, president
- Philanthrophy (9)
- Teen outreach (9) co-founder
- Art club (9)
- Key club (10,11,12)
- Honor society (9.12)
- German club (10,11,12)
- German class officer
- History club (10,11,12)
- Drama club (11,12) backstage volunteer
- Braves television club (11,12) create morning announcement videos.

Any comments would be great, please be honest! Also, for my admissions I'm sending in a documentary about charlie Chaplin's modern times, do you think this would be a good choice? Thank you again!
also, I haven't taken my SAT's b/c i have to take the new ones and I'm taking the ACT in December.

By Matth (Matth) on Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 08:27 pm: Edit

Do well on your SAT's and you have an excellent chance if your portfolio is good and you maintain your good grades. Your documentary should be fine as long as it's not longer than 10 minutes. That's the limit.