<p>Ren - state schools want in-state students to be the majority. Nearly all of them favor in-state students drastically. Some even have quotas set up. Illinois only accepts abour 8% OOS, a ridiculously low amount. Wisconsin's is much higher, but still only about 16%. It's likely, as UMrunner08 said, that you would be accepted into both Michigan and Wisconsin, but rejected into Illinois.</p>
<p>You have good stats for Michigan, are in-state, and will likely get accepted.</p>
<p>gay? look at bard, sarah lawrence, eugene lang, vassar, hampshire. wouldn't tell the adcoms you're gay unless its a very liberal school.</p>
<p>If the adcoms can't deal with my sexuality, then the school is not somewhere I want to spent 4 years of my life.</p>
<p>I'm not worried about that at all.</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>White male, potential major = theater</p>
<p>Extremely competitive private school
Freshman year: poop, gpa = 3.3, no honors or AP</p>
<p>Sophomore year: final gpa = 3.6, AP Music Theory and skipped a year of science, took a full load (no free periods)</p>
<p>Junior Year: final gpa = hopefully 3.9, honors English and still a year ahead for science, was scheduled to take AP art history but due to a scheduling conflict I couldn't. self-study for AP psych and econ (macro and micro).</p>
<p>Senior year = no idea about gpa, but AP's: gov, english lit, bio, art history.</p>
<p>SAT: 650 math, 700 CR, 760 writing = 2110</p>
<p>Essay will be really strong, recs will be good as well</p>
<p>EC's and leadership, this is where I shine.</p>
<p>I have two main involvements: theater and the gay-straight alliance.</p>
<p>Theater leadership:
freshman - sound director
sophomore - tech director (3rd in command)
junior - tech director (2nd in command), and member of state board, organized the state festival
senior - president, state board member and possibly international thespian officer (HUGE position)</p>
<p>Gay-straight alliance: member frosh, soph, co-president junior and senior. i will write my essay on how I impacted my school community when i came out, and how my involvements affected our community and made it a considerably more "comfortable" place for kids to come out. It's a very conservative town and one other person and I battled the administration for 2 years to allow us to go "public" (make it a club that can have shirts, etc. instead of a secret one) and we finally won the support of the school.</p>
<p>I also started the Politics Education Club, a group that puts together semi-monthly presentations on key issues so that the entire student body gets a feel for both sides of political debates such as abortion, immigration, social security, etc.</p>
<p>Other involvements: piano (10 years), about 200 volunteer hours at services for older citizens being an office assistant, and i volunteered as a full time camp counselor for a camp run by the school system for children with autism.</p>
<p>work: i will probably get a job as a camp counselor that i volunteered at preivously, and i'm going to get a part time job in the spring at target or starbucks or gap or something silly like that.</p>
<p>OK, schools:</p>
<p>Stanford - waitlisted
Brown - waitlisted
Cornell - accepted
Michigan (in state) - accepted
Illinois - accepted
DePaul - accepted
George Washington - ?
Loyola Chicago - accepted
Macalester - ?
Northwestern - accepted
Syracuse - accepted
Univ. Chicago - toss up
Wisconsin-Madison
Wake Forest (legacy) - accepted</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>