<p>Hey, I'm a (Chinese, female) junior at a public high school. I don't have that much leadership (yet) so I'm hoping to get some soon, with club elections coming up. I'm starting to get confused because people have been saying that I would probably end up anywhere from my public state university to an elite private university. Can you guys help me out? </p>
<p>SAT: 2290 (1st try, will probably retake in Oct): M(800), CR(730), WR(760)
All Honors, 2 AP's this yr in USH, LangComp (my school has very limited AP's), will take AP Calc AB, Bio, Euro, Lit next yr
SAT2: Biology E 760, will take Chem, Math 2, USH, maybe Lit this yr
GPA UW: 3.78
GPA W: (I think our system is different...) 5.21
Top 8%-15%
Model United Nations Awards: (aiming to be an officer)
Honorable Mention Delegation at William and Mary MUN Conference
Outstanding Delegation at Georgetown North America MUN Conference
School newspaper: News Editor (hopefully EIC)
Knowledge Masters (academic team): 1st in states, 31st in world
Member of Spanish Honors Society
Member of Social Studies Honors Society
(Soon-to-be hopefully member of National Honor Society, National English Honor Society, National Science Society--which reminds me, what's the use of 2647294 honor societies?)
Member of Amnesty International (hopefully officer)
Member of Acapella choir: Made Regions mixed choir
Track team spring 2009</p>
<p>Volunteer at JFK Center for Head Injuries
Math & English tutor at a Kumon center
Piano awards:
Annual spring statewide competition-Honors/High Honors award for past 9 years
Composer Commission Competition: 2nd place in 2008, Honorable Mention in 2009
International Young Artist Piano Competition finalist in spring 2009
NJ Music Educators Association (NJMEA) Young Artist Competition: 3rd place March 2009
Church children’s choir piano accompanist volunteer: 2006-now
Piano accompanist for local violin teacher's recitals: 2006-now</p>
<p>yeah that's all I can think of now.
My personal aims are JHU (maybe Early Decision), UChicago (EA?), WashU at St. Louis, Swarthmore, Duke, UPenn, Columbia, UNC Chapel Hill</p>
<p>I think you’re definately in at UNC (I’m assuming you’re in state?). Duke, Swarthmore, WUSTL are probably low-reaches and the other ones are reaches just for the fact that ivies are reaches for almost everyone. You have decent ECs, but it doesn’t look like you’re super committed or involved in any of them. Colleges prefer 1-2 ECs that you’re committed to over a laundry list of ECs that you do in-season or once a week for an hour.</p>
<p>I’m not in-state haha. Yeah my commitments = MUN and newspaper, so I’ll try to further leadership in the newspaper and get a leadership position in MUN. Thank you :)</p>
<p>I agree that you’ll probably get into UNC. Try to get super involved in at least one thing. You have a decent GPA, however it’s always something that will be helpful to imporve. Good luck with your elections!</p>
<p>You do seem to be very involved with piano, so I don’t know why other people are telling you to get super involved with one thing. SAT is super good, especially for first try! But I think your chances look good basically everywhere but Columbia maybe = reach.</p>
<p>Get those leadership positions, and I would say you can get into most of those schools! Uchicago and Duke and especially the ivies may be a bit of a reach. But I say you have a shot! Good luck with the elections~</p>
<p>I don’t know if I would bother to mention Track on your application if you only did it for one season. From my limited knowledge of college applications, you seem to be a strong applicant for all of those schools, especially with increased leadership next year.</p>
<p>Did you happen to do CTY by any chance? I hear JHU likes that quite a lot.</p>
<p>UNC is pretty safe, Wash and Swarthmore are probably still targets. Duke, JHU, and Chicago are probably low reaches, and UPenn and Columbia are mid-high reaches. It is a shame you don’t have a solid sport, but that is fine, your other EC’s look pretty solid. I don’t really know what Knowledge Masters is, but you did very well, I would try to be a captain or something there next year.</p>
<p>Thanks for chancing me; I’m really glad you’re not applying to the colleges that I am, that’s one less accomplished student I’ll have to compete against =P</p>
<p>I’m not good with chancing others, so I’ll just repeat what others said: Boost leadership, and keep up the piano, that’ll be your “hook” in place of a sport/extensive volunteer (maybe you already do that, can’t tell from the post). Your piano teacher/whoever knows your piano ability the most could probably write a great recommendation letter for some of the private schools. Two more gaps you can try filling (just suggestions - I doubt you really need those) are summer programs and/or a job.</p>
<p>*Sorry, I used the term ‘hook’ wrong; I meant ‘strong point’, since I’m not sure that universities need a piano player or if you’re going to play piano for them.</p>
<p>You have amazing SATs and quite the list of ECs! I’d guess that Duke, UPenn, and Columbia are the only reaches, but they’re reaches for everybody. I’d be surprised if you were turned down from any of the other schools, provided you have good essays and recs.</p>
<p>I think you’re a match for UNC, low reach for Duke and Penn, just for the simple fact that they’re up there. You didn’t mention what state you were from?</p>
haha. Yeah my commitments = MUN and newspaper, so I’ll try to further leadership in the newspaper and get a leadership position in MUN. Thank you :)</p>