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<p>Ethnicity: Filipino/White
Instate</p>

<p>ACT: 33 Composite
33E, 36M, 31R, 30S (awaiting writing score)</p>

<p>Grades (here's where things go fishy, i have a downward and upward trend...ALL IN ONE YEAR):
Course Sem1grade/sem2grade (except senior year)
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>I will be sending in supplements, but I intend to be premed.</p>

<p>chances?</p>

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<p>oh and i'm a dude just so you guys know.</p>

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<p>anybody?</p>

<p>I got my writing score back yesterday (essay-10)</p>

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<p>I think you've got a real good chance. You've challenged yourself with difficult courses, you have a few B's, but clearly you've worked hard and are still working hard. Your ACT is great. I like your essay topic and give you credit for your musical talent despite the deafness. Sorry to hear about your depression, but I wouldn't go writing about it too much on applications; IMO some things you keep private.
In-state students have a little bit of an edge with admissions too over OOS. Duke has a commitment to fill something like 12% of the entering class with folks from NC (and SC??)>>something like that.
I got into Duke, but chose UVA. To each his own. Best of luck.</p>

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<p>any other opinions</p>