Please chance me. I would really appreciate it.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello. I’ll try to make this as brief as possible.

Info:
White Male. Strong public school in midwest. 1600 students in a college town

Stats:
3.92 UW GPA 4.4 Weighted.
School doesn’t rank
Done AP and Honors at every opportunity
AP Classes so far:
-APUSH
-World
-Bio
-Seminar
-Gov
-Chem
Next Year:
-Music Theory
-Calc BC
-Physics
-Spanish
-Lit

33 ACT 35E/31M/35R/30S
-NMSF
-AP Scholar
-NHS

  • Local Leadership award (Top 10 out of 300ish interviewed)

EC: (Not many but very time consuming)
I have swum for the past 8ish years at the state level and competed in open water races up to the marathon (10K) distance. I’m not great at it but it’s a large time commitment.
I’m very involved in Band. I was 2nd chair at our all state festival. I am a drum major of my schools marching band.
I also do mock trial and was an honorable mention district attorney.
For volunteer experience I often work at the local animal shelter and have helped for the past two summers in a program my swim team hosts to help kids who may not have access to lessons learn how to swim.

I feel as though one of my recs will be really really good and the other will be fairly good but not incredible. I feel good about my essay and it’s about using music as a metaphor for life philosophy.

Thank you for reading if you’ve gone this far. I’m mostly interested in competitive LACs (Wesleyan, Vassar, Oberlin, Grinnell, Bowdoin, etc…) and was wondering what any of you thought. How much would ED help? Any comments are appreciated and I hope you have a fantastic day/relatively stress free college search process.
All the best

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You have solid stats and sound like a caring person. I’m only going to make one suggestion. AOs receive very little information about you, so they use every piece as a small clue. Little miscues can result in disproportionately large impacts. Think long and hard about having an email, Twitter handle or any other abbreviation that contains an offensive or questionable phrase. If your email address is zombiejesus@gmail.com, do you think that will give you an advantage with or potentially offend an AO who is Christian? Although it’s unlikely such a small thing would get your app automatically discarded, why take the risk of having to overcome a faux pas?

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@milee30 Thank you for the response. When I chose the username I was looking for something totally random that couldn’t be connected back to me and haven’t been able to figure out how to change it. No other email adresses, twitter, etc. are connected to it.