<p>ok....second and final chances thread (hopefully)
Schools:
Columbia
Duke
Emory
UNC-Chapel Hill
Florida State
Notre Dame
NC State</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Filipino/White
Instate for UNC, Duke, NC State</p>
<p>ACT: 33 Composite
33E, 36M, 31R, 30S (awaiting writing score)</p>
<p>Subject Tests (I'm only sending SAT scores to Columbia, the others don't require them since I took the ACT): 800 Math IIC, 790 US History, 600 Physics (sigh....oh well...all the schools I'm applying to only require 2 SAT IIs)</p>
<p>Grades (here's where things go fishy, i have a downward and upward trend...ALL IN ONE YEAR):
Course Sem1grade/sem2grade
9th:
Latin I A/A
Seminar Honors English I A/A
Life Skills/PE A/A
Honors Biology A/A
Band I A/A
Seminar Honors World History A/A
Honors Algebra II A/A</p>
<p>10th:
Health/PE A/A
Honors Chemistry A/A
Seminar Honors Civics and Economics A/B
Honors Precal B/B
Latin II A/A
Band II A/A
Seminar Honors English II A/A</p>
<p>11th:
AP Physics B B/A
AP English Lang. B/B
AP US History B/A
AP Calculus BC B/B
Honors Latin III B/A
SAT Prep/Honors Advanced Grammar A/A
Honors Band III A/A</p>
<p>12th current/projected 1st semester grades:
AP Music Theory: A/A
AP English Lit: B/B
AP Statistics: B/A
AP Biology: A/A
AP Psychology: A/A
Honors Band IV: A/A
I can't take latin this year because of a scheduling issue</p>
<p>uw GPA: 3.762
w GPA: 4.64
Class Rank: 11/273</p>
<p>AP Exam Scores:
Physics B: 4
Calculus BC: 5
US HIstory: 5
English Language: 3</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Marching Band 9-12, trombone section leader
Jazz Band 11-12, only had the oppurtunity since junior year, lead trombone
Winston-Salem Youth Symphony, principal trombone, 11-12
Academic Team 11-12, cocaptain of the science team (even though it was my first year, we were the county champs out of 9 schools)
Volunteer at the hospital, have 420 hours
Musical Theater, 9-12
National Honor Society 11-12
Debate Club, 11-12, cofounder, treasurer</p>
<p>Awards:
All county and All district bands, 9-10
All county and all region orchestras, 9-10
I+ rating (highest rating, perfect rating an all subcategories except one) on the highest difficulty level of music at state solo festival, 11
Academic Team county champions, 11
Hospital Volunteer, 300 hour service award
National Merit Commended, 11
AP Scholar with Honor, 11</p>
<p>Other stuff/hooks/stuff that I've probably mentioned but am going to mention again:
deaf in right ear, musically talented (ironic, no?), became depressed the summer between sophomore and junior years</p>
<p>have great counselor and teacher recs...I have an interesting essay topic (my hearing loss and working through it to become accomplished in music)</p>
<p>chances?</p>