<p>Please chance me! Would the following schools be a reasonable load to apply to?</p>
<p>Columbia ED
If that doesn’t work out…
McGill
Boston University
Johns Hopkins
Harvard
U Michigan
Oberlin</p>
<p>White female, but Latin-American
I’m a Brazilian citizen and have lived in Brazil for 5 years, fluent in Portuguese, et cetera.
GPA: 3.8 uw, 4.5 w?
SATs: 740 cr, 800 m, 760 w
SAT IIs: haven’t gotten scores back yet, but I plan to keep taking them until I get at least a 750 on two of them (including latin).
Class rank: top 10%</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:
- President of the Math Team for 2 years
- President of the Young Democrats club for 2 years
- President of the SAVE club (environmental group) for 1 year, secretary for year before
- ^ with these clubs I do a variety of things such as recycling, math tutoring, canvassing/phone banking during the election, taking care of the school garden
- organized a fund raiser concert for an orphanage in Brazil, raising over 600$
- National Honor Society
- over 200 hours in community service (volunteering at a summer music camp and at an orphanage in Brazil)
Music - Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at the New England Conservatory
- All-Eastern orchestra (and district/all-state festivals)
- Lowell House Opera, Mercury Orchestra
- a variety of Harvard orchestras (Harvard Pops, Harvard Gilbert & Sullivan players, Harvard Bach Society)
- ringer for the Tufts Symphony…
- generally a very strong music resume</p>
<p>Awards:
Rochester Institute of Technology Award for Creativity and Innovation
Maxima Cum Laude on the National Latin Exam, sophomore and junior year (freshman year I was really sick and missed the exam)
Student end-of-the-year awards in Honors Geometry and Honors Orchestra</p>
<p>Class Rigor:</p>
<p>Freshman Year
- Honors Orchestra
- Honors World History
- Honors Foundations of English
- Honors Physical Science
- Honors Geometry
- Chorus
- Orchestra (regular)
- Honors Latin I</p>
<p>Sophomore Year
- Honors Orchestra
- Orchestra (regular)
- Honors US History
- Honors Biology
- Honors English
- Honors Algebra 2
- Honors Latin II</p>
<p>Junior Year
- AP Language and Composition
- AP European History
- Honors Chemistry
- Honors Precalculus
- Honors Latin III
- Orchestra (regular) (dropped Honors Orchestra)
- Art History independent study (with AP exam)</p>
<p>Senior Year
- AP Physics
- AP Calculus
- AP Latin
- AP Psychology
- AP US History
- Honors Literature of War and Genocide
- Honors Spanish III
(dropping regular orchestra as well)</p>
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<li>my school doesn’t offer AP classes until Junior year, I took the most rigorous courses allowed</li>
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<p>Thank you so much!</p>