Bienen School of Music - Chance Me

I’m an incoming senior in high school who really wants to go to Northwestern University’s Bienen College of Music. My grades are slightly above average but not spectacular, but I hear the admissions for Bienen are mostly based on audition and they’re less strict with grading than the rest of NU. I have a 3.7 unweighted GPA and a 1700 on the SAT but I’m studying and taking it again in October. I have had B+'s and A’s throughout my entire high school career, and two C’s during Junior year. I’ve only been in one AP- AP music theory in which I got an A. I’m taking AP Statistics and AP Lit this year.

I have been in my state’s All Shore Chorus for 4 years, All State Chorus for 3 years (the maximum number allowed) and All National chorus for one year. I am the section leader of my school’s choir and I do a bunch of musical things outside of school (Teach private lessons to kids, numerous choirs). I play 3 instruments well enough to audition with them but I will most likely be going in as a vocal performance major.
I know my chances probably aren’t great because of my grades, but I’m hoping if I apply ED and my audition goes well, my grades might be overlooked. What do you guys think?

I applied early to Bienen too…

@scyinpiano hey, I applied ED to bienen. Did you get an accept/reject letter today? Idk if I was supposed to? :-/