Chance for Princeton?

school7
Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:03:50 +0000

(I am currently a junior in HS)
UW GPA: 3.42 (should be at least 3.5 when they recalculate at end of year)
ACT: 33 (Will retake because I didn’t know there was no guessing penalty for the first time)
SAT Subject Tests: Physics, US History, Spanish, Math 1 or 2, possibly chem- should all be at least in 700s

AP Tests (by the time I apply)-Physics B and US History, hopefully will be 4s or 5s

2 years of soccer, got Best offensive player award freshman year

3 years of winter track

4 years of spring track (by end of next year)

Work-teach piano

I tutor in Spanish at my school for free, so that’s community service I guess

I also played piano at a local retirement home, and have about 8-9 hours of service in Costa Rica working at an education/health clinic and working on a coffee plantation for community benefits

Have been playing piano 14 years (since age 3) and go weekly to Mannes College of Music prep division (admission is by audition, I live about 3 hours away) and my current piano teacher was a teacher at Princeton prior to Mannes

Won high honors in MAP evaluation (Musicianship Achievement Program) level III a few years ago

Studied for a year with a former Juilliard teacher, it was very rigorous hence a couple lower grades sophomore year which messed up my GPA, but helped a lot in terms of my playing, hopefully I can explain that during interview

Courses next year: AP Macro, AP Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, Spanish 6 Honors (it is a literature class and I am not taking Spanish this year only because I finished the curriculum at my school early and 6 is not offered this year), Personal Finance and Banking (honors I think)

Teacher recs- one from a Spanish teacher and one from a Math teacher, also maybe one from my teacher at Mannes

I interview well

I am a Hispanic male, hopefully that will help

I know my GPA kinda sucks, do I have any chance?