<p>15 going 16 senior - indian
[skipped a grade]</p>
<p>3.2 unweighted [ hit major family problems sophomore/junior year]
currently maintain senior year gpa 3.99/4.0</p>
<p>not great SAT scores =(
SAT 1 - 540 verbal, 630 math, 630 writing</p>
<p>Excellent recs
Excellent essays</p>
<p>4 years Tennis - varisty/ received various awards, played for states, scholarhship, tennis tournaments
4 years orchestra - chamber 2nd stand, symphony etc performed for plays & musicals, scholarship, music achivement award
Music School - performed with professional violinist, selected for one of the top master classes with professional violinist, 5 solo recitals representing school
concert choir 2 years
4 years -active member for Social studies forum
4 years of academy of science- currently executive board
magazine staff & writer
leads graduate level research group at rutgers university with 2 different profs
worked at NYU MEdical school- studied 1,000 medical cases with resident students
Research - subcloning of a gene, currently writing a publication
FBLA- 4 years, currently publicity head - state conference in public speaking and regionals for 3 years in marketing etc
Chemistry Olympics NJ State team/Physics Olypmics team representing school
Market Researcher for international biotech company
Founder of a music school- carnatic music [ indian ] to help support my cousin who suffers from mental disabilities
Founder of a small library in community
Founder of a science organization in local community
All accelerated/honors/AP classes since freshman year
President of short-term company founded to help katrina victims
Ambassador for an organization
Currently work as a Music Theory teacher
Started a tennis camp for kids with mental disabilities
Walk for hope - 4 years</p>
<p>I will be writing my essay on my family and health problems that Ive undergone over the past few years</p>
<p>flsky
I think your ecs and music achievements are great. are you looking for merit aid from Case? If not, you may get in. what subject/dept are you trying for?
Are your ACTs better than the SATs? Send in your ACT scores then. Also, see if you can do the SAT again. My D improved her scores dramatically in the Verbal area...her achilles heel. Good luck ...and keep trying lots of other places...i believe there is a univ out there for everyone, it's finding the match that is hard.</p>
<p>flsky:
check out the ACT website for the dates....I don't remember if it is too late to do the SAT reasoning test either..I know they have one in Jan.
what are the other places you have applied too?</p>
<p>which other univs are you trying to get into...my D got into Case her SATs were not great. But she did get accepted. In fact she has been accepted everywhere she applied ...so you never know</p>
<p>I think you'll get in as Case cares quite a bit about extracirriculars and many a kid on campus has gotten in from them. There's also a huge emphasis on the courseload you're taking compared to other kids from your school who have applied so if you had issues with your courses for awhile in there be sure you mention it somewhere on your application.</p>
<p>if your talking about buildings and layout---awesome case has a really neat mixture of modern (including a bld. by reknowned architect frank gehry) and old school academic looking buildings----driving to campus is especially neat via I-90 on Martin Luther King Blvd. you go threw this beautiful park that stradles both sides of the road--and all of cleveland musuems are in this park and then the road ends and your at case western---as far as campus goes i think case has an awesome campus (at least more than warranted)and you can tell its something the school cares about and devouts an effort to improving---although some say the surrounding neighborhood is "scary" i didn't really think it was that bad at all</p>
<p>If you're going on the tour the campus requires by nature that you go all over it so hence it's longer than normal. So when you're going the distance from the Main Quad to the Northside dorms take the time to think if you really want to walk it at least once a day regardless of the conditions... I think right now they say there's little snow as well so think about what it means when there's snow! I mention this because on a lot of campuses you can roll out of bed ten minutes before class and be on time, you can't at Case and this does bother some people... it is perfect if you're thinking of riding your bike tho methinks.
armcp describes the campus quite nicely so I'll skip over most of it (though I'll note that the surrounding area is no more scary than any other urban campus IMO). In general the science stuff is on Southside (where the old Case Institute of Technology was) and the humanities stuff is on Northside (where the Western Reserve University was) so there are still two quads etc, but I've always liked it overall.</p>
<p>oh icic, see i dont like the campuses of like nyu and stuff it barely looks like a college, im hoping that case will have more of a college atmosphere to it! i heard the schools acceptance rate is really high, but the academics are pretty damn tough. im just worried about being able to handle the courseload if i get in, especially cause i wanna prolly go into medicine for grad and gpa is relatively important</p>