<p>i was wondering which schools i should apply to...im as jr, btw.</p>
<p>Here are my stats:
i go to a public school in chicago
2/637
SAT I: 800M 790CR 750W (12 essay)
SAT IIs: 800USH 710World History 790Chem 800Bio 800 Math level 2
APs: I've only taken world history (5) so far
most rigorous courseload
teachers love me so ill have awesome recs!!
i've written a lot..my work has been published in many works..so hopefully i wont have trouble with the essays! hehe</p>
<p>Ecs:
-Original research with Halina Brukner at University of Chicago Medical School
-Original research with Michael Schafer at Feinburg school of medicine at Northwestern...did scoliosis research
-piano for forever-since i was 6
-president of HOSA for 3 years
-president of Student Council (2 years; VP freshman year)
-class president - 3 years
-band president-3 years; flute section leader
-vice-president of choir-3 years (president has to be a senior)
-Volunteer at hospital for 3 years...approx. 14 hours a week (won an award from the hospital)
-volunteer at nursing home for 3 years..approx 5 hours a week (won the volunteer award every year for 5 consecutive years)
-lots and lots of community service :)</p>
<p>awards:
-lots and lots of awards for band and choir...music in general
-for piano: so far ive won 4 international competitions, placed 1 or 2nd in 21 national competitions, and won 19 state competitions
-lots of academic awards...</p>
<p>so what do you guys think?? i wanna try to go for ivies...and uchicago and northwester and safeties! (the people i researched with told me im pretty much in! hehe)</p>
<p>you have crazy awesome stats...i'd shoot for any of the ivies....but i dont htink uchicago or "northwestern" are safeties for anyone--no matter what anyone says...</p>
<p>Assuming you want to continue with your piano studies, I would recommend you look at schools in areas where you would have access to a topnotch teacher. Harvard in Boston and Columbia in NY fit that criteria as do the other schools you mentioned.</p>
<p>I have pretty comparable stats to you (I'm a senior). I go to chicago burbs public HS, I've been playing piano forever, and I'm really good at science and math. I'm assuming you don't want to major in piano performance, considering you're looking at Ivies. When I was looking at colleges, I really didn't like Harvard or MIT because they don't have any kind of applied music program. They'll try to set you up with a private teacher, but lessons aren't on campus. If you're alright with that look into them anyway. I reccommend Brown and Princeton out of the Ivies. Princeton has a music performance certificate program, which is basically a minor. I got into Princeton ED so I'm doing that because I want to continue piano, but I too good at other things to study only music. I visited the Brown music department, and the lady in charge of the keyboard department was very friendly and helpful and showed me that Brown would be a great place to keep up my love of piano. When you're visiting colleges, make sure to set up appointments to talk with somebody in the music department. This way you can get a feel for what it's really like. Other schools I reccommend are Duke, Stanford, University of Southern California (pretty much a safety for you), maybe UIUC (extreme safety for you. I know, I too would hate going to U of I like everyone else in illinois public high schools.), and UC Berkeley. What school do you go to?</p>