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<p>I’m a Korean Male and I go to a high school ranked in the top 100 in the nation. </p>

<p>SAT: Hoping for 2150-2200
SAT II: Biology 710 (will take three more, US, Chem, and Math IC)
GPA: 3.9
AP: Euro 3 (going to take AP US next year, and probably 6 more APs during senior year)</p>

<p>Extracurricular, Personal, Volunteer Activities:

  1. Cello playing (7 years: 20 hours per week, 48 weeks per year)
    -School Symphonic/Chamber Orchestra (Principal Cellist)
    -LISFA (Associate Principal cellist)
    -All County (Principal Cellist)
    -All State
    -Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society: Performance at Alice Tully Hall as “Syosset Trio” [Leader of Trio]
    -----Strings International Music Festival Scholarship
    -----Letter from Town Clerk congratulating for representing the Town of Oyster Bay</p>

<li><p>Tennis camp volunteering (Summer 9th Grade: 5 hours per week for 8 weeks {200 hours})
-LuHi Tennis Camp at SportTime Volunteer Counselor: aided in running the camp; helped clean up, served lunch, did a lot of office work, organized events, and organized equipments and camp t-shirts
-----Letter of Recommendation for excellent work and dedication to work.</p></li>
<li><p>C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival (Summer 10th Grade: 5 hours per week for 3 weeks)
-Leader of Trio
-Honored Master Class with Larry Dutton of the Emerson String Quartet
-Chamber Orchestra (Assistant Principal Cellist)
-Best Ensemble Award: for demonstration of skill, enthusiasm, and dedication towards various chamber music
-Tilles Scholarship Award: scholarship into the festival</p></li>
<li><p>Hospital Volunteering (Summer 10th grade through first quarter of 11th Grade: 6 hours per week for 9 weeks {54 hours})
-North Shore LIJ (Long Island Jewish Hospital): did a lot of office work; filing, charting and mailing envelopes, managed and transported medical equipment, and took care of patients
-----Letter of Recommendation for excellent work and dedication to work </p></li>
<li><p>Tri-M (Modern Music Masters) (10-12)
-Tri-M International Music Honor Society
-Secretary or Vice President (hoping for office position by senior year)
-Performances: Leader of “Syosset Trio”
-Honored master class with Shanghai Quartet </p></li>
<li><p>Newspaper Club (11-12)
-Editor (hoping for this position by senior year, ill work really hard and focus on this club especially)</p></li>
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<p>(Hoping to Intern in biological or chemical engineering next year and also conduct research at Stony Brook University for Intel next summer)</p>

<p>Academic Honors:

  1. Spanish National Honor Society
  2. National Honor Society
  3. Earth Science Leadership Award: awarded for Leadership excellence in Earth Science
  4. LISELA (Long Island Science Education Leadership Association) Award: awarded for excellent Leadership Role in Earth Science
  5. GERF (Geological and Ecological Resource Foundation): one of few students in school selected as a great honor to give a presentation to the Board of Education about earth science and the importance of setting up this foundation at school; the foundation would serve as a visual aid for earth science students, making it easier and more fun for them to learn
  6. National Merit Commended [hoping for this to happen this year, possibly even semifinalist position]</p>

<p>Work Experience:

  1. Gig Performances as the Syosset trio and other quartet ensembles (10-11)
    -Leader of the gig groups; arranged job dates and times, rehearsal dates, music preparation: played at numerous churches for mass accompaniment, played at private and big parties, played at country clubs (performed for the Master Works Foundation at Woodbury Country Club), and played at numerous weddings-----Hopefully raise enough money to donate to Red Cross</p>

<p>Essays: I plan to write about how music has enabled me to express myself in new ways, how great it felt to play for others, and how great it felt to help others through music as well.</p>

<p>Recs: I’m sure i received a great one so far, and i’ve received great supplementary letters from my bosses at the tennis camp and at the hospital. I hope to become really familiar with my guidance counselor as well.</p>

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<p>seriously, are you illiterate or something? Why the heck are you still insisting on posting this after people told you repetitively not to ask this stupid question again.</p>

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<p>Yeah, as dooit said, it might be annoying for some people.
I don't know where you got the top 100 rankings, but there are a lot of people who were dropped even though their schools are in top 50 or, even, top 10. If you want to increase your chance, take more APs.
So far, nobody knows the chance, but if you get the scores that you aimed, you might have a shot.
By the way, I know a korean who got 4.0 GPA and 1500+ SAT score and got dropped from columbia. Good luck!!</p>

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<p>woo you got good responses from some other thread</p>

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<p>What the one in the yale board? or Harvard? or the other 150 threads that he posted regarding this?</p>

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<p>don't know, maybe he'll get accepted by all of them</p>

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<p>i meant that he posted this 150+ times ... pretty much everyone tells him to f off the second time around</p>

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<p>honestly speaking though, since most of your stats are "maybes" or "going to" or "hoping for" we can really give you a response to that. but judging from your extracurriculars and depending on what you plan to major, you should be alright with music/humanity related majors.
again since your stats arnt exactly set, predictions made at this point are useless.</p>

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<p>It's funny, I haven't seen one person who's taken Calculus 3 or 4. Hmm.</p>

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<p>Regardless of how your stats shape up, you're out of luck if your application will read anything like your post here.</p>

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<p>what do u mean if app is like my post here? whats wrong?</p>

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<p>man....u need to take time to think over ur app fill-out...it's sept now..</p>

<p>Why cares the chances?? some ppl say no chance some say there is..but so what?? Just do ur best and sit down relax...</p>

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<p>"Just do ur best and sit down relax"</p>

<p>sigh.. been a while since I heard those words. relaxing would probably do me more good than stressing over my app.</p>