Am i on the right track for Stanford/MIT?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a sophomore right now</p>

<p>My grades:
Freshman
Acting: A-
French2: A+
History: A
Biology: A
Geometry: A
Computer Programming: A
English: A
Strings: A</p>

<p>Sophomore (first semester)
British Literature: A
Honors Algebra 2/Trig: A
Honors Chemistry: A
Honors Physics: A
AP European History: A-
French 3: A
Computer Database programming: A+</p>

<p>this semester, im taking forensic science instead of comp programming, but i havent gotten a grade for it yet.</p>

<p>My PSAT scores
Critical Reading: 63
Math: 66
Writing Skillz: 67</p>

<p>ECs:
Viola (6 years)
School string ensemble, both intermediate and advanced
Williamsburg Youth Orchestra
Regional Concert Orchestra
Shenendoah Summer Music Camp
Intergenerational Orchestra
Pit orchestra for school musical
Tri-M music honor society
JETS (junior varsity this year), team captain
Science Bowl, team alternate
1st place at this regional french speaking competition
french club
The Mary Ann Johnson Geometry award for top freshman in geometry
Varsity Tennis (will be doing for 3 years)
Varsity Sailing (1 year)
Governor's school for math, science, and technology
2 month internship at NASA
(i signed up for both the nasa and governors school thing this year. I hope i will get into at least one of them for this summer and then ill do the other next summer)</p>

<p>as for community service, all ive done is some help cleaning up my school, but i plan on doing some peer tutoring and if im lucky, my dad might be able to get me to go to Haiti for some volunteer work. If that doesnt work out, i might do something like habitat for humanity or ill volunteer at a musem or somethin. Next year, i will join the school math team, Mu Alpha Theta. In a few weeks, i will also enter this computer programming contest, so i might win that too. I will also be taking the hardest courses possible. Next year, i will take either 3 ap sciences or 2 of them and 2 maths, so that i can skip a level.</p>

<p>So...what do yall think? btw, im caucasian so no help there.</p>

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<p>right track? sure... get alleast 1450 in sat's... 800 in math should be good</p>

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<p>how did u do governor's school already...? ur only a sophomore, and unless i'm mistaken almost all states have the juniors only rule... and no way are either nasa or governor's school a lock... but u seem on the right track i guess? bring up that 660, for math, MIT/stanford won't look lightly on that... but yea... i don't see why ur off track :)</p>

<p>oh out of curiosity, are the regional orchestras in PA bad... or are you amazingly good? because i know in jersey, it's pretty competitive... at least if u want to sit high in a section</p>

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<p>i live in VA, and here, juniors and sophomores can go to Governors school. Im not amazingly good at viola, but im pretty good. I get 2nd chair most of the time. For the regional orchestra, i placed 2nd chair in the concert orchestra. The symphony is above concert orchestra, so i guess im about half way in between the best that auditioned. But i think viola itself will be a plus since there r so few of em usually.</p>

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<p>as a violin, i have the pleasure of being one of many, so i sit 3rd chair 1st violin in the northern nj symphony... not regionals, just... northern nj, and since that is a prof orchestra... i assume that SHOULD be above regionals, but i was 43 for regionals 2 years ago... 3 out from accepted... maybe i got better, or maybe nj has really good violin players</p>