My Chances at Tufts ED?

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<p>Country: Spain (Moved here at the end of 9th Grade from Connecticut)
School: American School of Madrid
Citizenship: Mexican/Hispanic
Resident Status in the USA: Will apply for a Student Visa
TOEFL: Waived because of 11 years spent living in USA/England.
Have lived: Mexico (Age 0-1), England (Age 1-6), Connecticut (6-15 (Middle School and Freshman Year)), Spain (15-18 (Sophomore-Senior Year))</p>

<p>GPA: 3.7 (Unweighted)
SAT I: 750M 610CR 680W
SAT II: 710 Biology M (in Freshman Year), and I have yet to take the other two.
AP/IB: Full IB-Diploma Student
Junior Course-load: IB English, IB Spanish IV, IB Theory of Knowledge, Model United Nations, Instrumental Music, IB Chemistry, IB Mathematics HL, IB French IV, IB History (and IB Biology (a junior class) that I took during Sophomore year)
Senior Course-load: IB English HL, IB Spanish IV, IB Theory of Knowledge, IB Biology HL, IB Chemistry HL, IB Mathematics HL, IB French IV SL, IB History SL.</p>

<p>EC:
Advanced Saxophone Level-Classes throughout Middle School and my High School.
Have done things such as class concerts and the Pit Orchestra for the Musical.
Two Plays: The first was a minor role, and the second was supporting actor (Secondary Role)
Student Government: Treasurer of the Junior Class (Junior Year) and Executive Treasurer (Senior Year)
School Help: Embajador (School Helper) for three years. Currently I help the school put on events, welcome new students, and have a year-round job grading Physics quizzes, and Chemistry "TA" where I grade tests, etc.
Model United Nations: Delegate at the THIMUN convention in The Hague, one of the biggest High School MUNs, and chaired MADMUN, the MUN conference at my school.<br>
3-week Language Immersion Program in France the summer of Freshman Year.
Math Team Participant and went to the American School of Paris Math Competition
Throughout Ninth Grade I participated in my town's EMS Service which was staffed entirely by high school students. It was the whole year and I had about three 24 hours duties where I was on the ambulance crew and about 2 6-hour duties were I worked in the Radio Room. There were also meetings, work parties, training sessions, first aid class and training for the ambulance, as well as the occasional 4 day duty which was second response. Website: Welcome</a> to Post 53
I won an award in 9th Grade for a state-wide French Contest where I placed 2nd Place.
Brown Pre-College Program (2010)</p>

<p>Sports:
Junior Varsity Cross Country in Fall of Freshman Year. Team was Region 3rd Place Winners
Varsity Ski Team in the Winter of Freshman Year.
Varsity Tennis at a local Club throughout Junior and Senior Year
Sports Work Experience: Certified Connecticut Referee from 7th grade to 9th grade. </p>

<p>Essay: Have a lot of good ideas. Generally a good writer.
Recs: Guidance Counselor-Very good English Teacher-Amazing (A+ in her class, she comes over to my house for dinner) Chemistry Teacher: Very good</p>

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<p>I’d like to preface this with the following: I’m not going to chance you. It would be wrong for me to since Tufts, as well as many other of the nation’s top universities, do not accept you based on solely these stats. It’s your character, too, and in the end, it’ll be your essays that get who you are across. As for any weaknesses, I’d say, if you can, to try to bring up the SAT. Your numbers seem to be a bit below average for Tufts, but that, certainly, doesn’t mean you’re not a competitive candidate by any means. Other than that, just make sure you let your character shine in the essays, and stay strong throughout senior year. Best of luck to you!</p>