<p>Hi there, guys.</p>
<p>I am currently a junior in high school (soon to be a senior!) and Denison has recently captured my interest.</p>
<p>I am planning to either double major in Music/Vocal Performance and Theatre, or major in Theatre with a minor in Music/Performance. My mom took a look at the Denison website and told me “Oh, you wouldn’t be interested in the theatre department”, so initially I didn’t look at Dentison. Then, on a whim I browsed the website and I was actually pretty impressed with the theatre program… I should have known that my mom doesn’t exactly know what she’s talking about when it comes to theatre 
So I looked up more information about Denison, and it looks great!</p>
<p>I am planning on visiting Denison this summer and early next fall, but before I visit I wanted to know if any of you could answer some of my questions… just to make sure it’s worth visiting :)</p>
<p>Here are my questions:</p>
<li><p>Do any of you know how prominent or professional the theatre program and the productions at Denison are? I know some of their alumni are famous actors, so that always bodes well. Also, about how many people audition, and about how many are accepted?</p></li>
<li><p>Would any of you know much about the music/vocal program? It looks pretty standard to me, which is a good thing. I just want to make sure it’s not sub-par. If anyone knows about how many vocal students audition and how many are accepted, or if a minor in music requires an audition, please let me know.</p></li>
<li><p>How likely is it that I would A) be accepted to Denison and B) be offered merit scholarship, based on the profile below? I know that Denison is selective and academically prestigious, and I also know that they are a bit more generous with scholarship money than some of my other college options.</p></li>
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<p>So here goes.</p>
<p>MY PROFILE!</p>
<p>Female, white
From central Ohio, a suburb of Columbus
Intended major: Drama with a music minor or double-major in drama and music</p>
<p>Top 10% (Large, competitive 2,000+ student high school in suburbia, but diverse)
PSAT: 96
SAT: 2060 (730 reading and writing, 600 math)
ACT: Haven’t taken yet. Shooting for 28-31.
GPA: 4.1 weighted, 3.9 unweighted</p>
<p>Have taken the AP European History test but no grade back yet. Will take the AP Music Theory, AP French, and AP English Lit tests next year… I should do well on all of them, since music, languages and literature are my strongest subjects.</p>
<p>Academic courses taken:
Honors Science 9, Honors Biology, Honors Chemistry
Honors English 9 and 10, American Literature, Research and Exposition
Algebra 1 and 2, Geometry
3 years of highest level choir, Music Theory 1
AP American History, AP European History
4 years of French, 1 year of German</p>
<p>Academic courses I will take next year:
Probability and Statistics
Music Theory 2 (I will take the AP test) and a fourth year of highest level choir
German 2
AP French 5 (I am taking this through Kenyon College)
AP Liberal Democracy in America (Taking this through Kenyon, too.)
AP English Language and Composition</p>
<p>EXTRACURRICULARS!</p>
<p>I have been doing theatre since I was 5 years old. I’ve done many MANY community productions, regional and professional productions, school productions and even professional and college operas. I have had many leading roles including Alice in Wonderland (twice!) and will definitely attach my (long) resume to my application. I have also taken voice and piano lessons since I was about 7.</p>
<p>I am very involved in my church, specifically in the drama department. I do a monthly drama, dance and song program for Sunday schoolers, lead worship and learning at our summer program, and have volunteered for the children’s choir for two years. I played a main part in an evangelistic musical that we toured around Ohio and the Carolinas, and will probably do so again next year. This summer I am helping to develop a daily worship and praise service for families and children at our church’s free lunch program, which I am really excited about!</p>
<p>I am part of my school’s drama club, and the International Thespian Society. I am pretty active in it, and participated in our annual Halloween food drive this year. I represented my school at our area Thespian Conference as Alice in Wonderland earlier this year… we took a scene from the play</p>
<p>I am going to be entering my third year of our school’s Senior Choir, as well as our out-of-school honors ensemble called Madrigals, which is a huge honor to be in. We do MANY performances throughout the year, especially around Christmas. We do a lot of volunteer performances, and when we do get paid all of the money goes to our school’s music boosters program.</p>
<p>Other colleges I am looking at:</p>
<p>Otterbein College (Westerville OH) for a BA in Theatre and Production, minor in Music
Butler University (Indianapolis IN) for a double BA in Theatre and Vocal Performance
Ball State University (Munsey IN) for a BA in Theatrical Direction, minor in Music
Wright State University (Dayton OH) …undecided about which program
Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green OH) for a BA in Musical Theatre
Was looking at Kenyon for Drama and Music before I realized how little scholarship money they offer, and DePauw before I realized that their theatre department was not very strong.</p>
<p>Other Important Stuff:</p>
<p>I was inducted into the National Honor Society this year thanks to my grades, extracurriculars and community service It’s a big deal at my school, we’re pretty selective about it.</p>
<p>Next year my GPA will be considerably higher due to all of my AP courses, but unweighted it will only go up a little bit.</p>
<p>I will continue ALL of my extracurriculars and my academic rigor next year.</p>
<p>My recommendations should be really good. My teachers are AWESOME about writing rec letters for anything, and (most of them) love me… I have known some of them since I was 6 or 7, thanks to my involvement with theatre!</p>
<p>I am a pretty good writer. My essays are high-quality, and I have an amazing English teacher who would be happy to proofread my application essay and give suggestions, but by NO means will she “write it for me”. I got an A on my Research and Exposition essay portfolio, which is hard to do.</p>
<p>SO I’ve probably just overloaded you with information, but I really want to be as thorough as possible… you can skip over the parts that you don’t think are important </p>
<p>Any answers would be greatly appreciated!</p>