<p>I have finals coming up, but I'm trying to avoid them by putting my life on rewind, soaked in complacency. </p>
<p>In other words, please tell me my chances in your humble but potentially worthless opinion. Honestly.</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 UW
High School: Public; better than most
Class Size: 170
Class Rank: N/A, but top 5?</p>
<p>SAT: 2350 (CR 800 MA 760 WR 790 ES 12)
SATII: wait another month
AP taken: Computer science, chemistry, biology (self), U.S. History (self). Should be all 5's.
APs to take: Literature, French, Calc BC, Physics C 2/2.
Financial Aid: YES</p>
<p>I'm gonna go with the common app format</p>
<p>Honors:
ISEF, Regionals Grand Award winner, scholarship recipient (9) -Int'l
French National exam 4th place (9,10,11 -yes, same place all 3 years) -Nat
USNCO (11) -Nat level
National Merit (11)
Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award (10) - school nominated
NHS</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-Violin (9-12) 12 years
Local youth symphony, school symphony, pit orchestra for musical
Concertmistress, featured soloist for local youth symphony, ensemble leaders</p>
<ul>
<li>A "school council" -maintain anonymity (9-12)
Liaison between city and school; community projects. Vice President </li>
</ul>
<p>-Debate (10-12)
Varsity public forum. Policy (10)
Regional tournament 1st places, speaker awards</p>
<p>-Activities volunteer at nursing home (11-12)
the usual + i give concerts</p>
<p>-Interscholastic competitions (can i group like this???)
"Academic competition #1"(9-11) : State champion in social studies (it ain't easy), captain.
Science Oympiad: 1st places in 3 categories at regionals. Medalist at State (11), captain
Foreign language competition: 1st place (9-11), I thought i was a captain, but apparently no one remembered.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Newspaper (11-12)
A&E editor (11), news editor (12). 3-week production cycle. time swallower</p></li>
<li><p>Tennis (10-11)
JV singles and doubles. Summer classes. Mostly for fun. </p></li>
</ul>
<p>Work:
Quartet (10-12): pretty good money
Professional orchestra sub (12): Very good money.
Waitress (12): not my type</p>
<p>Summer Activities:
Orchestra camp (9,10)
Summer Research at University (11)- 250+ hrs
The aforementioned volunteer stuff</p>
<p>Is there anything else...? </p>
<p>Oh yeah, I turned down SSP for a volunteer position at a local adult academy to help the ENL classes. I was in those once. And also for violin. Auditions are cruel. </p>
<p>One more thing: I'm an international. Because I have to be.</p>
<p>Ah ha, I forgot to mention schools. I don't know?? I'm applying to the need-blinds for int'l just because I can get equal weigh there. So that means yale, harvard, and princeton.</p>
<p>How about
CMU
Vandy
MIT
Stanford
Cornell
Northwestern</p>
<p>General feedback? Do i lack focus? Which aspect should I reinforce with essays? I'm just doing whatever I feel like doing, hopefully not aimlessly.</p>