<p>Don’t take this the wrong way, but 4 years of jazz band is hardly anything remarkable to the admissions committee. astonmartindbs is right about focusing on your more unique experiences. The whole purpose of your college application should be to show what makes you special and why you are better than the tens of thousands of other applicants</p>
<p>hey ok cool,
i am most definitely going to be focusing most on the service trips rather than jazz band. I just do jazz band because i enjoy doing it and might as well since I have done it forever and been in leadership positions.
hopefully most of the people here aren’t being too optimistic because i would must definitely like to get in 
I’d be happy with just a couple, hopefully not the bottom two, but still.
school starts next week…yay</p>
<p>I wouldn’t focus too much on the service trips. Frankly, to many admissions officers, it sounds like a rich kid who had the opportunity to go overseas to help out and get some credit. This seems especially true in your case as you don’t seem to have a lot of community service in your local community. I would recommend focusing on the student council. You’ve been president each year and this says a lot about your leadership potential – to me that is more impressive than the service trips.</p>
<p>Overall, I think your scores are a little low for Harvard and Stanford so they would both be high reaches. Of the schools on your list, I think I would put the match schools in the range of Tufts and Northwestern.</p>