<p>hmmmm....what are my chances for these schools, as my title says, I'm a rising senior from North Carolina....at a new school (first graduating class was this year). I'm half filipino (URM baby!!...I think), and I am deaf in my right ear. I'm also looking at a premed/something biology major, but definitely keeping up the music in college (I play 3 instruments):
Columbia
Duke
UPenn
Cornell
UNC-Chapel Hill
Florida State
University of Florida
Notre Dame
NC State
East Carolina
Stats:
SAT I: 740M, 660CR, 610W (will probably retake in October or November) 1400/2010
SAT II: 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>(I was depressed during the summer before and first semester of my junior year, causing my grades to go down, I got better during the second semester)
Projected AP exam scores:
AP Physics: 4
AP English Lang.: 3/4
AP US History: 5
AP Calculus BC: 4/5</p>
<p>12th:
AP Biology
AP Psychology
AP English Lit.
AP Music Theory
AP Stats
Honors Latin IV (might self study for the AP exam)
Honors Band IV</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Marching Band 9-12, will be section leader this year
Jazz Band 11-12, only had the oppurtunity since junior year, lead trombone
Symphonic Band, 9-12, 1st chair
Winston-Salem Youth Symphony, 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 400+ hours
Musical Theater, 9-12
National Honor Society 11-12</p>
<p>Awards:
All county and All district bands
All county and all region orchestras
I+ rating (highest rating, perfect rating an all subcategories except one) on the highest difficulty level of music at state solo festival
Academic Team county champions
Hospital Volunteer, 300 hour service award</p>
<p>Other stuff/hooks/stuff that I've probably mentioned but am going to mention again:
URM, deaf in right ear, musically talented (ironic, no?), became depressed the summer between sophomore and junior years</p>
<p>chances?</p>