Please Evaluate My Chances For Yale. Thanks!

woo89
Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:42:09 +0000

RESUME

Honors/Awards
-National Honors Society
-Spanish National Honors Society
-Tri-M International Music Honors Society
-Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society
~A Tri-State (NY, NJ, CT) Competition Winner.
~Nine groups out of sixty groups that auditioned were selected for this honor
~Young Musician’s Concert
–Performance at Alice Tully Hall
~Strings International Music Festival Scholarship
–invited to have master classes with renown musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra
-Tilles Scholarship Award (C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival)
~one of few chosen for scholarship into the festival
-LISELA (Long Island Science Education Leadership Association) Award
~awarded for excellent Leadership Role in Earth Science
-Earth Science Leadership Award
~awarded for excellence in Earth Science
-Honor Roll
~ rewarded for excellence in academics for all four quarters of the high school years

Clubs/Activities
-Member of Mathletes
~team was ranked 2nd place in Long Island
-Member of the Ping-Pong Club
-Member of the Chess Club
-AMC (American Math Competition) Participant
-Tri-M (Modern Music Masters)
~chamber ensembles
–Leader of trio ensemble outside of school
~performances
~master class with Shanghai Quartet at Tilles Center
-GERF (Geological and Ecological Resource Foundation)
~one of few students in school selected to give a presentation to the Board of Education about earth science and the importance of setting up this foundation at school; the foundation would serve as a visual aid for earth science students, making it easier and more fun for them to learn.
-LISFA (Long Island String Festival Association)
~Associate Principal Cellist {3rd chair}
-All-County NMEA (Nassau Music Educators Association)
~Principal Cellist {1st chair}
-All State NYSSMA (The New York State School Music Association) Conference
~orchestral performance in Upstate New York
-School Symphony/Chamber Orchestra
~Principal Cellist (1st chair}

Athletics
-Boys Swimming (Varsity)

Community Service/Work Experience
-In-School Volunteering
~Chairperson for Nyssma Festival
–checked attendance for incoming Nyssma auditioners
–helped in setting up rooms for festival
[12+ hours]
-Gig Performances as trio and quartet ensembles
~Leader of gig groups; arranged job dates and times, rehearsal dates, music
preparation, etc.
–churches
>mass accompaniment
–parties
–country Clubs
>performed for the Master Works Foundation at Woodbury
Country Club
–Weddings
-North Shore LIJ (Long Island Jewish Hospital)
~office work; filing, charting
~equipment management/transport
~patient care
[50+ hours]
-LuHi Tennis Camp at SportTime
~Volunteer Counselor (PIT): Person In Training
–aided in running camp
–clean up
–served lunch
–office work
–organizing equipment/t-shirts
[200+ hours]

Summer Programs
-C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival
~chamber orchestra
–Assistant Principal Cellist {2nd chair}
~master classes
–with members of the Pierrot Consort
–with Larry Dutton of the Emerson Quartet.
>only a few groups in the entire festival were chosen for this honor
~chamber ensembles
–Leader of a trio and an octet
~performances
–best ensembles of festival selected to perform

GPA: 4.0 (almost certain)
SAT 2: Biology M-710
I’ll probably take 3 more; math IC, Chem and US History next year, and probably two or three more during the senior year.
AP: Euro-3 : (

I HAVENT TAKEN THE SAT YET SO CAN ANYONE GIVE ME AN IDEA OF WHAT A GOOD SCORE WOULD BE? I ALSO TAKE AP EURO THIS YEAR AND IM GOING TO TAKE AP US NEXT YEAR, AND PROBABLY 6 MORE APS.