<p>ok a little off topic sorry i know seth really wants somebody to rate her friend lol but can you send in a video tape (im in karate) i hope they might see im better and above all the other karate people</p>
<p>Cool, karate! Well, if you ask me, sending in a tape to people who know nothing or very little about karate is useless, unless you have major accomplishments in it already. Maybe you should contact the sports department. Do you have a blackbelt in karate already? Anyways, karate is not common, so I think the originality is a definite plus for you.
.......would you mind rating my friend?</p>
<p>yeah i have a black belt.....her SAT score is great besides after a certain score they dont even care....since she has a 1550 it'll be looked at along with the 1600s.</p>
<p>Her average gpa is sortof low but im sure as long as shes top 10% it'll be fine and the music thing seems to be a BIG hook....Im guessing that if she doesnt get into harvard she has a great shot at the other ivies as well</p>
<p>actually, in canada, 94 is really high cause the teachers here suck and are unqualified, at least at my school. well, i suppose kids get 98s and 99s too as long as they can concentrate only on school and nothing else. In one of my class, the highest mark for an English exam was 88, and it was enriched. I don't know what weighted average means, but I don't think they do it in my school or anywhere else in canada for that matter. Anyways, since you have a blackbelt, i'm assuming you do karate at a really high level, you definetly have a chance at Harvard. How much I don't know because I know too little about you.</p>
<p>seth blue, She CAN write about playing the violin, and it might be her best bet, but then again it might not. If you were a Harvard adcom, would you rather admit someone who played soccer for the U.S. Olympic team, had a 1600 and wrote an essay about playing soccer, or someone who played soccer for the U.S. Olympic team, had a 1600 and wrote an essay about the joys of reading arcane medieval poetry? Or the experience of donating bone marrow? Or how learning French changed her life?</p>
<p>There you go.</p>
<p>How heavily does Harvard like All-State Orch and Interlochen. How good would one have to be to be in a national youth symphony. I am assistant concertmaster of a regional orch, study with a teacher who recieved degrees from Julliard, and won some local concerto competitions.
And also, Will colleges frown upon joining too many orchestras. I will have like 4 or 5 after high school, but i plan to stick to it.</p>
<p>well, all state isn't really prestigious, but I think interlochen definetely is. How many people were accepted at Intercholen in your program? To be in a national youth orchestra should not be hard for you assuming that you were in a prestigious violin program at interlochen. As for your Julliard graduate teacher, that's great, cause you can probably get him/her to write some letters of reccomendation for you and they'd very likely make a good impression. And I don't think colleges will frown at you joining too many orchestras as long as 1 or 2 of them were prestigious ones.</p>
<p>Regarding people sending in tapes, videos, CDs, etc - I've heard over and over again that adcoms don't want to see/hear any of that stuff unless it is just completely mindblowing. Not to discourage you from sending them, but I'd imagine that the adcoms receive tons of these tapes and CDs every year, and would hate wasting their time listening to an average, unremarkable performance.</p>
<p>Yes, that's why people should directly contact the music department(if possible).
Anyways, give me my friend's chances people.</p>
<p>Wheres the closest national symphony orchestra near me? I live in a small town in Southwest Michigan. About 2 hours from Lansing.</p>
<p>Seth Blue.. are you sure all-state is not really prestigious? Michigan is forming its first all-state orchestra next year.</p>
<p>Lakers08, I'm not American, so I don't know a lot about state orchetras. However from what others have told me, most of them aren't. I guess it depends on the reputation and selectiveness of your orchestra. Is your orchestra widely known nationally or even internationally? I think your interlochen thing is good, would you mind telling me how many were accepted into the program you were in at Interlochen? And when you rote national symphony orchestra, I'm assuming you intended to write national youth orchestra. To find a national youth orchestra(I'm not sure if there is one in the states, I know for sure there is one in Canada though), you can always go on good old google. =)</p>