<p>Hi! Notre Dame is my dream school, and I think that on my own I am a competitive applicant. However, I go to a small private school on the east coast, and two extremely smart athletes at my school have already been asked to play sports at Notre Dame, and they have committed. I'm scared that this will seriously lessen my chances of being accepted. What do you guys think? Here's some stuff about my academics:</p>
<p>-2280 SAT (780 critical reading, 720 math, 780 writing)
-3.9 weighted GPA (+.5 for each honors or AP class)
-almost all honors and AP classes offered/applicable to me with A's or B's in all of them except for a one-trimester "Honors Intro to Calc" course, in which I got a C. However, this year, I'm taking AP Calc and I've brought the C up to a B+. So far, I've taken the following AP exams and gotten the following scores: AP US History (5), AP Bio (5), AP French (4), AP English Literature (4).
-I've taken the following SAT subject tests and gotten the following scores: Biology (760), US History (710), and Math I (700)
-Volunteering is one of my passions and throughout high school I have completed approximately 950 hours of community service (that is not a typo).
-I am also extremely religious and involved at my church (Catholic). My friends and I run a weekly prayer group where we meet and talk about theology, pray, and go out to do service. I play violin in my church's worship band that rehearses/plays around 5-6 hours a week. There's tons more of stuff, as well.
-I also am really involved in the music world as a violinist. I'm in my school's audition-only Honors Orchestra. Since 10th grade, I've made the first violinists in my district's "Senior Regional Orchestra" (the first violinist are usually in the top 20 out of over 100 violinists who auditioned)</p>