<p>I was actually looking into the 5-year music-journalism program and was wondering if anyone knows much about it or how to apply, etc. (for those of you who don't know, you can get your BM in music and MM in journalism in 5 years). I swear, this is the most perfect and ideal program & i think it's the only one offered in the nation, pretty much.</p>
<p>So I thought I would throw in my stats to see if I could get some feedback on my chances:</p>
<p>I am a white female attending a well-known high school conservatory as a junior concentrating in music - violin. My freshman year I went to a well known public high school, then auditioned and transferred to my arts school. My arts school, unfortunately, does not have GPA or class rank, so these are my stats available so far:</p>
<p>Scores:
SAT: 610/M 580/CR 650/W & taking the SAT again in October
SAT II: will take the Literature, Math level 1 & Math level 2 in November</p>
<p>Courses/Grades:</p>
<p>Freshman:
Honors English - A
Life Skills/Dance - A
Honors Integrated Math 2 - A
Honors Biology - A
Honors World History - A
Latin - A
Orchestra - A</p>
<p>-Entered Arts School -
Sophomore:
English 2 - A
Algebra 2 - A
Chemistry - A
College Beginner Italian - B
Violin/other required music classes - A's</p>
<p>Junior:
AP English III - A
Precalculus - A
US History - A
College Intermediate Italian - B first trimester, A- second trimester
College Preparatory Music Theory - A
Violin/other required music classes - A's</p>
<p>Senior:
Will be taking -
AP English V
AP Psychology
AP Calculus AB
Advanced Environmental Science
Music Literature
Violin/other required music classes</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
- International Foreign Language Award Winner - Latin
- Performed in Performance Hour twice (class performing in front of all music students)
- Performed in 5 major concerts for my current school's symphony
- Performed in 3 major concerts for my old public school's symphony
- Performed in aprox. 3 or 4 concerts for my city's youth symphony
- Participated in a film studio recording session for a motion picture by a film student
- Performed in many other little ensembles/graduate student recitals
- Performed in Brevard Music Festival's orch. & 2 new composer's concerts
- President's Award for Educational Excellence
- Western Regionals Orchestra (1st Violin)
- All County Orchestra (1st Violin)
- Won state contest with public school's orchestra
- Concertmistress of UNCG summer music camp
- National Honor Roll inductee</p>
<p>Volunteer Work:
- Hospice - regular volunteer and participated in a camp for younger kids
- Red Cross Volunteer
- Jr. All State Orchestra Volunteer</p>
<p>Clubs/Organizations:
- (will be senior year) President of Community Outreach Committee
- Secretary of Democrats Club
- School Symphony Orch. (both schools)
- City's Symphony Orch.
- School Newspaper (Head of Advertising & Main Journalist)
- Yearbook Staff
- Food Service Committee
- Secretary of Red Cross Club (freshman yr.)
- Latin Club (freshman yr.)
- Academic Team - general knowledge (freshman yr.)</p>
<p>Summer Experience:
- Brevard Music Festival and Institute (2yrs)
- North Carolina School of the Arts summer session
- UNCG Summer Music Camp (concertmistress)
- Hospice Volunteer Camp</p>
<p>Jobs: Part-time Babysitting</p>
<p>Hopefully I can show some diversity in my essay - i'm going to write about music and psychology and how music can help the lives of others and how it has inspired mine. Also how working in hospice and combining music has showed me about music and healing.</p>
<p>I'm also planning on doing an interview in addition to sending in music audition recordings which should help.
But who knows. Based on my stats, where do I stand? Do I have a chance at NU even if my SAT scores aren't great? As far as that goes, i'm gonna try to get my CR score in the 600s and my math up some more.</p>
<p>Thanks :-)</p>