<p>Hi everyone, I'm a rising senior this year and am interested in the following schools: Tufts, Brown, Boston College (legacy), NYU, UChicago, Northwestern, Georgetown, Swarthmore, Hopkins, Yale, etc.. I'm not finished all of my testing quite yet, but I plan on achieving decent scores by the time I submit my application. I'm thinking of applying ED to either Northwestern or Brown and possibly applying EA to UChicago. </p>
<p>Stats: </p>
<p>State: Delaware
School type: Private (Catholic)
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Parent income: ~150,000
GPA: UW 3.99 (School doesn't weight grades, will be later on this year.. Also an error with my current UW; it really should be a 4.0.)
SAT I: 2110 750 CR/ 720 W/ 640 M (Going to retake, predicting at least 2200, hopefully 2250+)
SAT II's: 750 Bio (Going to take Math II and US History in November, expecting 750+)
Class rank: 2nd (out of 65)
Course load: Taken the hardest classes offered at my school. All honor's and AP's (although not many offered) So far: AP US History (4), AP English Lang (4), AP US Gov (5), AP Bio (5). Next year I'll be taking AP Psych, AP English Lit, AP Calc AB, and possibly AP Euro. </p>
<p>Extracurriculars: </p>
<p>Varsity Soccer (4 years)
National Honor Society (2 years): Historian (1 year), Tutor (1 year)
Student Government (4 years): Class President (2 years), Class VP (1 year), SGA Historian (1 year)
Middlestates Planning Committee Member (3 years)
Model UN (2 years; gavel winner)
Big Brother Big Sister Organization Member (3 years) </p>
<p>Instrumental Ensemble (4 years, 1st chair clarinet)
Marching Band (3 years, saxophone)
County Honor Band (2nd chair clarinet)
Delaware Junior All-State Band (1 year clarinet)
Delaware Senior All-State Band (2 years, highest ranking of 6th on clarinet, projected to be 1st next year, and thus will hopefully make All-State Orchestra)
Sound of America Honor Band (1 year; prestigious national band, 5th chair clarinet)
Lessons for Clarinet/Saxophone: 7 years</p>
<p>Catholic Heart Work Camp Volunteer (2 years, went to various places for two weeks building houses, cleaning up areas, etc.)
REACH Service Volunteer Group (1 year, did various service projects)
Parish Youth Group (4 years, various service projects)
Christiana Hospital Research Program/Intern (1 year)
Boys State Representative (1 year) </p>
<p>Various Awards: </p>
<p>AP Scholar with Honors
NHS Scholarship Recipient (at school)
Bishop's List Recipient (Basically honor roll every semester at my school)
Multiple Awards of Excellence for music at Delaware Music Educator Association Festival(s), finalist once
Scholar Athlete (4 years)
All-State Band
Mini-Medical School Certificate of Achievement</p>
<p>So, presuming I end up with decent SAT I and II scores, do you think I have a chance at some of the schools I listed? Any feed back would be appreciated :) I'm interested in majoring in something relating to Biology (possibly something to do with music as well), and my essays will probably be the strongest part of my application. Teacher recs should be decent as well.</p>
And yeah, I’m really going to work on my essays. I already started drafting some of the UChicago ones and am starting to work on my personal statement.</p>