PLEASE CHANCE ME FOR HYPS!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Here are my stats

Science National Honor Society (Founder/Vice-President)
French Honor Society
National Beta Club (Secretary)
Operation Smile/Students in Action (Founder/President)
Tri-M Music Honor Society (Historian)
City Youth Commission
City Science Seminar
Youth Saxophone Choir (Principal)
Saxophone Quartet (Principal)
Youth String Quartet (Violin II)
Theatre Pit Orchestra
Eclipse (Principal Saxophone)
MusicCare (Founder)
All-State Orchestra (10th chair)
City Wind Ensemble (1st part)
Cit Honor Band (2nd chair)
Youth Symphony Orchestra (1st Violins/Concertmaster)
Youth Wind Ensemble (1st chair saxophone)
Other symphony Youth Orchestra (Concertmaster)
NAfME National Honor Orchestra
Jazz Band - (1st chair) - won a grammy (seriously!)
District Honor Band (2nd chair)
U.S. Navy Band Concerto Competitions (placed))
Young Artist Concerto Competition (1stprize)
Society for the Advancement of Research of Scoliosis (Director)
Music Teacher Association Instrumental Concerto Competition (1st prize)
Music Teacher Association Music Theory (Outstanding Theorist w/ Honors LVL V)
Music Teacher Association Woodwind Audition (Excellence/Honors)
City Philharmonic Usher
Youth Orchestra Assistant/Helper
Cashier
1,500 Volunteer Hours
3/220 98.9423 GPA

Summer Programs
Tanglewood (Violin) (last summer)
Cashier (for one summer)

AP Classes
AP US History (5) AP World History (3)

11th
AP Calculus AB
AP English Language/Composition
AP Government
AP Physics C
AP Psychology

12th (intending to take it senior year)
AP Calculus BC
AP Biology
AP Macroeconomics
AP Music Theory

SAT
2360 (Junior year)
ACT (34)
Subject tests
Math II 790
Biology (at the end of the year)

GPA - 98.9697
Rank - 3rd out of over 200 kids

URM and male

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Do you do anything with music? (jk) Great stats, others hopefully can judge your music accomplishments much better than me. Good luck!

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You are clearly academically qualified, and will be competitive. You will need to organize your application and your activities to present a more coherent narrative. You clearly have a strong passion for music and have achieved at a fairly high level, but right now your activities are all jumbled together. Also 1,500 volunteer hours is a LOT, and may raise questions. Is that in the last 4 years? What has your volunteer work involved, and does it relate at all to your music interest?

How you present yourself and the narrative that you create about your interests, passions, and purpose will be important in getting you to the next level - not only being qualified, but standing out.

Good luck!

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You need as @renaissancedad hinted above to pare your activities. Tone down all the noise and prioritize and highlight the top say 4-5 musical accomplishments you have. What would they be?

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If you’ve won a Grammy, that’s about as strong a musical hook as you could possibly have.

You’re either making this up, or you can count on an acceptance from one of HYPS*

*Still unpredictable. Apply to safeties and matches. Don’t start picking out Harvard gear and choosing a dorm.

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Ha! Jokes on you! Ivy’s only accept people who play the Kazoo! Lol, first the grammys, then what, cure cancer? You’ll make at least one of these schools if you emphasize music and volunteering

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@NotVerySmart For grammy’s I’m assuming his Jazz Band won it not himself personally. Although it is a big accomplishment it isn’t (as much as my knowledge) an indvidual award.

Our school won Grammy’s 3 times (probably one of the best music programs in the nation) and yet it didn’t help much for college decisions.