do I have a chance at getting in?

Patrick27tenor
Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:57:51 +0000

Do I have a chance at all either??? I’m a junior in high school now, and I know this is Polo1A’s post, but, I thought I’d post the same thing under the same title…

Academic Stats:

4.25 weighted GPA
3.929 unweighted GPA
3 AP’s and 15+ honors courses by end of senior year
-expected 4’s and 5’s on AP English and Spanish exams
-ACT: 27 (I’m retaking this 3 more times)
I am in the top 9 percent of my class: 51/539

Volunteering/Extracurriculars:
-A member of the National Honors Society: a society that is a service based society, 40 minimum service hours to be completed, but acceptance is based on GPA and extracurricular activities
-have been published for written works and poetry in my high schools award winning Literary magazine
-Member of the International Thespian Society
-Member of the Tri-M Music Honors Society
-Member of the Drama Club
-Choirs: Concert Choir and Bare Voices (two top groups), Vice President in Concert choir, and will be a section leader in both groups next year, and hopefully student conductor for concert choir.
-Drama/Musical Theater: I have done a total of 13 productions in drama/Musical theater with roles ranging from chorus-leading roles since the 6th grade.
-I’ve played piano for 9 years
-I’ve studied classical voice privately for 7 years
-I have consistently earned perfect scores in IHSA Solo Ensemble Competition, and was a member of the IMEA All State Honors Chorus, and was a top scorer in my audition room.

Essays: I’m a good writer, and I plan on spending alot of time on them, my AP english courses wil help, but I have no problem writing creatively, and have no problem writing in my own original “voice”.

Recs: They will be extremely good. I am close with a few teachers who like me alot, know me well and will say really good things. They also write well from reading past recs for other students (some of them shared their’s with me…)

Hooks: I attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts for their Advanced Vocal Institute (voice/opera) over the summer. Studied with a renowned professor of voice for a month there.
-also will attend Northwestern’s NHSMI (a summer music institute) and hopefully will study with Kurt R. Hansen (a tenor voice faculty member there).

I would really appreciate some thoughts!!! My intended major is a Bachelor of Music Degree in Voice/Opera Performance and Vocal Music Education Double Major.

QUESTION: I’ve heard that if you have a really good audition at the school of music, and say that you don’t have the most stellar ACT score (like a 27) and have 2 C+'s on your transcript, could the school of music still lobby for you in admissions?

Thanks so much, Patrick