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Colleges and Universities A-Z Saint Olaf College
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<p>I had a post before with probably half of this stuff for St olaf but forgot a lot...so maybe this could give a better view as to how I fall as far as admission stats go? :</p>

<p>*GPA: 4.19 weighted (going to rise)
3.82 unweighted (same)
*Rank: 31/317
*SAT: (they're not fair)..writing 610, crit reading 520, math 550.
*ACT: Taking it June 10th.
*9th grade i took almost all honors (I have 2 B's on my transcript and 1 b+), 10th grade i took 2 honors but got A's across the board, this year (11) i took 1 ap and 4 honors and have all A's. Next year, I am taking 4 AP's (2 AP and 2 ap weighted honors) and 1 actual honors class.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/interesting facts:
*People to people student ambassador program (summer of 2002)
*GLSEN board member (helps teach others about diversity)
*junior mendelssohn choir (2 years i a row, and soon to be next year!)
*voice lessons (past 2 years and when i was 8 and 9)
*piano lessons (11 1/2 years)
*cantoring for my rabbi for high holidays
*jazz choir (including a performance at PNC park, Pittsburgh's baseball stadium--soon to be 2 years)
*chamber choir (most elite choir in high school-soon to be 4 years)
*County chorus
*Showchoir in middle school (7th/8th grade)
*District chorus
*Played piano for high school orchestra in 9th grade
*3 piano competitions in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade
*Classical Singer competition
*Music Theory class over the summer (coming)
*National Honors Society
*Played piano/sung in numerous nursing homes for the past several years.
* (I might be writing for the local "free" newspaper to get experienced w/writing).
*6 months of Saxophone (5th grade!)
*1.5 years of guitar in 8th/9th grade
*Anime Club in 9th grade
There are about 3 or 4 I forgot about by the way ^_^</p>

<p>Thanks!!</p>

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<p>Well, I am sure your interest in music will be a plus, as St. Olaf is an excellent school for music. I would work on those SAT scores, though. I understand that standardized test scores are not everything, but it seems that at most schools they are becoming increasingly more important.</p>

<p>If you have a deep interest in attending St. Olaf and have a specific major in mind, I would visit the school and get to know the professors in that department. E-mail your admissions counselor there with questions you may have. Let him know that you have quite a bit of interest in the school, as contact over a long period is a plus, I have heard. </p>

<p>Best of luck to you.</p>

<p>By the way, I saw that you posted your stats in the UChicago thread. (I'll be matriculating there in the fall, so I spend most of my time on CC there.) Will you be applying there, too? In which other schools do you have an interest?</p>

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<p>The other schools that I would love to go to are: Yale, Dartmouth, CMU, Kenyon, Boston College, and others. Although, I know my sat scores are bad, i am taking the ACT to cover it. and if i suck on the act, then well, i guess i'm screwed lol. i do fine in school, sat is just rediculous in my opinion. oh well. but yeah, i might as well just stick w/st. olaf b/c all the "Friendly" people in the ivy chat forums think i have no chance. oh well.</p>

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<p>Yes, as stupid as it is, SATs and ACTs are a major factor at many colleges, so good scores almost necessary - though the U. of C., for one, says that the essays are more important. You might want to check out some schools that do not require standardized tests, such as Bowdoin, Holy Cross, and Lawrence, which are perfectly good schools that look beyond those pesky tests.</p>