ACT: 34
SAT: didn’t take
SAT II: Math - 800, Biology - 770
Academics: Canada does their GPA a little differently, by their standards it’s 3.76 (94% average), by US standards it’s 4.0UW cause there are conversions I think.
Senior Courses (IB, no APs. Haven’t got predicted marks yet. Probably won’t send IB scores cause they’re not thaaaat great)
SL Bio - 7
SL Econ - 7
SL French - 6
HL Eng - 6
HL Math - 6
HL Chem - 6
TOK - A
Also a lone summer school 12 physics course with a 95% lol
ECs
- Piano/Violin - RCM ARCT performance diplomas in both
- Concertmaster in a couple youth orchestras
- Member of three profession orchestras, first/second violn
- founded a string quartet, 2nd violin
- established private violin/piano/theory, teacher, have taught up to practical Grade 10 piano/Grade 8 violin, Rudiments 1-3, Harmony 1-2, History 1-2, students with first class honours, member of local music teacher’s society
- debate, couple tournys (no awards tho)
- member of local art society
- executive at DECA
- freelance performer and accompanist for churches, music exams, competitions, event etc.
- concert band, principal clarinetist
- school reach (trivia thing)
- bunch of workshops and outreach for local music promotion
Awards
Top 10 finalist at a couple concerto competitions, local music festival awards for various stuff
school honour society, couple highest grade in course things for bio econ history
Rank: 7/500ish (might be 550 i don’t remember)
Recs: Teacher ones look to be pretty good so far, my music recs are teacher and conductor who are like 11/10s, so should be okay. Counselor rec is probably going to be pretty vague but i’m from a big public school so not much I can do at the moment.
Essays: I feel like i’m horrible at essay writing so if anything fails it’ll probably be this lol. So far seem okayish
Demographics: Asian, male, income is around $100k, no hooks. Applying for financial aid.
Schools: Bio or Biochem for Harvard, Yale, Penn, Hopkins, Princeton
Weaknesses are probably going to be grades, test scores, and maybe essays.
I’m pretty much applying to US schools cause my friend told me I might be competitive enough and I’m pretty sure I have most of my Canadian choices as backup so might as well give america a shot. Thanks to all for feedback!