Hi all, please chance me for the following schools if you can:
Amherst College (Reach, I know)
Colgate University
Cornell University (Another reach)
U-Wisconsin Mdsion
UNC-Chapel Hill
NYU
UC-San Diego
University of Florida
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): lol
ACT: 31 C ( 35R, 30M, 31R, 27S, 10/12W) Will retake again, didn’t study that much. Pretty sure will be up to at least a 32)
SAT II: 800 Spanish, 730 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.65
Weighted GPA (out of ??): 4.52
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 19/400ish?
AP (place score in parenthesis): English Lang (5), Spanish Lang (5), APUSH (5) **Took Ap Spanish Lang in 8th grade, special bilingual program)
IB (place score in parenthesis): not offered
Senior Year Course Load: Ceramics 1, AP European History, AP English Lit, Band, AP Biology, Peer Counseling (some mandatory online class), AP Calculus AB, AP US Gov/ AP Macroeconomics (semesters)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nominated for National Hispanic Recognition Program, AP Scholar, Harvard Prize Book at my high school, State Solo and Ensemble Superior Award 2016 and 2017, (Idk if it counts, but most outstanding Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior in Top 3 in the state band program??), not much else though, maybe all principal honor roll in 11th?
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-Marching Band (9-12, Librarian in 11 and Band Captain in 12), our band is state finalist every year, being top 3 in the last 2 years, has a strong leadership curriculum and is very well known in our area.
-Student Conductor for Wind Ensemble, which achieved district, state, and national Superiors, awarded Best Brass award in US at Nationals 2017, went to nationals in 2016.
-Participant in local and regional music programs, Principal Chair at All District, two years in a row, Seated top chair at every local college honor band (UMiami, USF), Participant at highly selective Side by Side Program of the New World Symphony, played with a Grammy-nominated Conductor.
-National Honor Society Chapter at my school, (11 and officer in 12)
-Math Honor Society in 11 and 12
-English Honor Society in 12
-Speech and Debate Club in 12
Volunteer/Community service: Over 100 hours volunteering for my band program, setting up the school for local events such as music evaluations and auditions, and community service at all football games, another 100 hours at Local Community Youth Orchestra throughout the last 3 years, played free concerts for low-income communities in the area, done local fundraisers. Also done about 20 hours for National Honor Society, setting up boards in the school and helping set up fundraisers and club events, as well as school beautification, etc.
Summer Activities: Just prepared for national level auditions for programs such as National Youth Orchestra of the USA and state programs such as All-State.
Essays: Writing about the impact music has had on my life, how it has shaped my work ethic due to the many leadership roles it has placed me in (ex: band captain) and taught me that 99% is not enough. Also how it has involved me with my community by going to low income communities to play free concerts, how it also shaped my intellectual curiosity, still working on it, should be good.
Teacher Recommendations: One from AP Lang teacher who I’m really close to, was always the best student of all his classes, one of the only 2 who scored a 5 in the exam. Is really eager to write me a letter, should be really good.
The other from my Pre-Calc and now AP Calc teacher, has a really good impression of me because of my energetic participation in class and since I frequently went to see her to ask her for extra help even when I didnt need it, should be good I’m hoping
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Income Bracket: around 40K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Hispanic, immigrant parents, low income bracket?? Also music maybe???
Please chance me if you read, would be happy with any of the schools I listed, major is in social sciences, probably in history or poli science. Back up is education.