Chance me for Harvard and other Ivy League level schools!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Early Action: Harvard, ASU’s Barrett Honors College

Regular Decision: Northwestern, Upenn, Yale, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Uchicago, Duke

GPA: UW-3.94 W-4.43
Class Rank: Top 8% (57/720)
ACT: 29 (Going to retake to get 32+)
PSAT: Taking in Fall 2015

Classes Taken:
Freshman-
-Honors Geometry
-Honors Chem/Phys (My school does 1 semester Chemistry, 1 Sem. Physics)
-Advanced Guitar
-Men’s Chorus
-Freshman English
-Spanish 1-2 (can’t be taken for honors)

Sophomore-
Honors Spanish 3-4
Honors Algebra 3-4
Honors Biology 1-2
Chamber Choir (Zero Hour)
Acapella Choir
Sophomore English
Business Management

Junior-
AP US History
Honors Finite/Brief Calculus
Honors Chemistry
Honors Chamber Choir
Honors Acapella Choir
Honors Spanish 5-6
Honors Junior English

Senior-
AP Calc
AP Competition Government
AP Biology
AP Spanish Language
Honors Chamber Choir
Honors Acapella Choir
Humanities

EC’s:
-Community Chorus at my school (9,10,11,12)
-Stage Crew for Choir (9)
-All-State Show Choir (10,11,12)(Audition Choir) (3rd Chair) (2nd chair)
-Regional Honor Choir (10,11,12) (Audition Choir) (7th Chair) (1st Chair)
-Chamber Choir (10,11,12) (Meets during Zero Hour)(Performs at places outside of school)
-Music For The Cure Club (10,11,12)
-Choir Council (9,10,11,12) (Men’s Chorus Treasurer, Chamber Choir Treasurer, Head Treasurer, Not sure about Senior Year)
-NHS (11,12)
-Voice Lessons
-Piano Lessons
-Be A Leader Foundation (President/Founder) (11,12)
-SPOK Tutoring (11,12)
-Relay For Life (11,12)
-Competition Government (12) (Tryout and made. Spends 3-4 hours a day researching about given topic to prepare for district and state competition)

My choir has performed at:
-Churches in and out of state
-Famous pianist William Joseph’s Concert
-Diamondbacks Games
-Caroling during Christmas
-Annual Jazz and Madrigal festival held at Northern Arizona University
-Middle School Concerts (Opened for them)
-Summer Conference for the American Choral Directors Association

Volunteer Work:
-Aloha Festival (Annual)
-Feed My Starving Children
-Tutor at Elementary Schools
-Relay For Life
-Hospital Internship over summer

Summer Programs:
-ASU’s Barrett Summer Program
-NSLC Medical Camp at Northwestern
-Notre Dame Leadership Seminar (science and technology)
-Volunteen Program at Hospital (TBD)
-Summer School

Hobbies:
-Sing
-Dance
-Piano
-Guitar
-Ukulele

I plan on majoring in biochemistry and minoring in music. Hope to go to medical school and become cardiothoracic surgeon.

THANKS! And I can chance back!

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Ethnicity: Mexican/Pacific Islander
Family Income:~$200,000

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Harvard has REA, meaning you cannot apply anywhere else early.

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all the schools are reach for you, are you international, given the list of lottery schools you’ve applied to?

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work on studying for those ACTs man! Your time is much better spent trying to get them up than it is here asking us. As you probably know, a 29 will almost put you out of the running at all of these colleges. Come back when you have a tangible score, not a theoretical score.

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@anxiousenior1 You can apply to Harvard early action and any other public university. ASU barrett is public.

@MayiqueCynthia I’m not international, I live in Arizona.

@ Coldsummer123 I’m retaking it in April, but I just wanted to see with the other info I have available

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I stand corrected. I just saw two colleges under early. My apologies.

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I mean it’s really hard to chance for Harvard, buuuuut , if you convey your passion for singing/music as well as biochemistry (maybe try to get some more STEM-oriented ec’s like doing some research, or participating in USABO, etc) AND raise the ACT to at the very least, a 32, you can maximize your chances.

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gormar099, “Passion” does nothing actually. convey accomplishments in what you pursue. Presumably “passion” underlies the commitment to spend the time, energy to accomplish things that are notable. But all the passion in the world won’t get you a slot at Harvard. I know it is the sound bite or platitude that is often repeated but it is not true that passion is appreciated by admissions. Nope but accomplishments/achievements are.

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you’re right @lostaccount , what i meant was, convey your passion through your previous accomplishments. So when I said he should pick up EC’s pertaining to biochem, I meant he’ll need accomplishments to show that he truly does care about biochem. Thanks for clarifying this, I wouldn’t want OP or anyone else to get the notion that just by saying you have a passion for something, it’ll carry you into your dream school.

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I can definitely see you getting into these schools (provided you get a solid ACT score) as you are a Pacific Islander which is a major boost in the admissions process.