Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi - chances please for uchicago (early), yale, hopkins, columbia, swarthmore, barnard, tufts, smith, wesleyan, rice.</p>

<p>SAT I: 2210 (790 W, 680 M, 740 CR)
SAT II: 680 Literature, 650 Math II</p>

<p>GPA: My school doesn't calculuate it, but I think I have a 93% average. I'm taking AP Eng, AP Calc AB, Greek, Latin 5-Honors, Independent Research, History electives
Rank: My school doesn't do that either, but I go to a very competitive school, so I'm probably pretty high up there in the ranks. </p>

<p>EC's & Other Things:
-I started going to Juilliard in 8th grade so that takes up a lot of my time. I'm principal bass of the highest level orchestra there. I also received an A on every jury I took from 8-11 grades (this is when you play for the faculty in your dept at the end of the year). I take Theory 5, Solfege 5, Orchestra, Private Lessons (with a rather well known bassist), Chorus, and Master Class at Juilliard.
-I'm principal bassist of the NYC Opera youth program orchestra.
-I founded and am editor of the Juilliard Newspaper for the Pre-College Division. I run the entire publication.
-In the summers, I study at the Tanglewood Institute with bassists in the Boston Symphony. I was ass'nt principal bass of the youth orchestra there this summer. I also play the first part in a lot of chamber groups and was the only bassist asked to play in the Seminar recital at the end of the summer by a Boston Symph bassist.
-I received a scholarship to attend the Eastern Festival this summer.
-I'm doing an independent research project in the analysis of three requiems with faculty members at my HS and at Juilliard.
-I played solos with the orchestra at Juilliard twice (once in 10th grade, and once in 8th).
-I won one of the top awards at a summer program I went to at Oxford Univ for a solo I wrote for double bass. I was also nominated for awards for an essay I wrote in art history, and for a photograph I took.
-A few summers ago, I spent 3.5 weeks in Thailand working with kids ages 6-13 in a village in N. Thailand. I taught them music, English, and basic math skills. It was really fun.
-As for sports, I'm on my school's fencing team.
-I'm looking to study music history, classics, and history & politics in college.</p>

<p>Recs: I'm sure they were good. I asked two teachers who know me well, in addition to a bassist in the Boston Symphony and my bass teacher at Juilliard. </p>

<p>Essays: I know these were very solid.</p>

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<p>I would defnitely think that you are great for all those schools =)
But that is really weird your school dosent do gpa's or class ranks</p>

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<p>Hmm, I don't know. For UChicago, for example, which is very SAT-heavy, your SAT II scores aren't at all stellar, nor is your SAT I math... That will also hurt you at schools like Yale, Tufts, Columbia, and perhaps Wesleyan. The others are matches.</p>

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<p>lolabelle, thanks for your input, but UChicago doesn't really give much weight to SAT's at all. They're very explicit about this in their admissions info and in everything anyone from that school has ever said regarding their decisions.</p>

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<p>chicago would be great match, yale is very slim</p>

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<p>thanks for all of your input. i really, really, really want to go to uchicago. i think that it would be an amazing place to study. </p>

<p>thanks again.</p>

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<p>Have you looked into playing for Chicago's orchestra? (Assuming they have one, I'm not really familiar)</p>

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<p>sidjenks:
yes, I have. i'm definitely interested in playing in the uchicago orchestra if i go to school there. i'm mostly interested in their incredible music history and composition dept, but having a good orchestra at the university is definitely a plus. uchicago does a good job of balancing academic and performance studies in their music dept. if i get in, i'll definitely go. there's no other school i'd rather attend. </p>

<p>there's also the civic orchestra of chicago which is a training orchestra for the chicago symphony. i'll probably try out for that if i get into uchicago.</p>

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<p>contact a few of the people in charge, judging from your resume-thing, i'd guess that you're pretty good. they might put in a word.</p>

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<p>also you should know that some of the privates take the sat 1 writing as a sat 2 subject score instead</p>

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<p>O.o why are you even worrying about getting in, you have good chances at all except maybe Yale, Columbia and Wesleyan.</p>

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<p>thanks very much everyone for your replies! </p>

<p>darkhope: is that really true? do schools take the sat I writing as an sat II?</p>

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<p>no. most do not. anyways, regarding chances, I'd say you have a better than average shot at most of these schools. yale/columbia are reaches nevertheless (just do be safe), but the julliard name may well get you a spot in their freshman class.</p>