<p> Schools I’m looking at: WWU, PLU, and CWU.</p>
<p> Projected major: Music Performance - Violin</p>
<p> HS GPA: 2.94 (Made a few bad choices on classes and that tanked my GPA from my former 3.45) Graduated in 2012
1 Quarter of CC GPA: 2.73
(Only took three classes first quarter, really just something to do while I prepare audition material, but struggled in Music Theory. Will go up next quarter, I’m sure.)</p>
<p> 3 AP classes: AP World History, AP US History, and AP Literature and Composition.</p>
<p> Did not take the SAT. ACT: 25 comp. </p>
<p> ECs:
- High School Orchestra - 4 years, concertmaster for 3 years from sophomore year
- High School Pit Orchestra - 2 years (Freshman and Senior)
- Youth Symphony - 6 years/700+hrs, concertmaster for 2 years
- Adult Symphony Orchestra - 3 years/600+hrs
- Adult Symphony Orchestra #2 - 2 years
- Youth Summer Symphony - Camp Counselor, two summers</p>
<p> Awards/Honors:
- Solo/Ensemble “Superior 1” (2009 to 2012)
- Solo/Ensemble State competition “Excellent II” (2010)
- Instrumental Music Student of the Year (2011)
- Outstanding Student in Music (2012)
- Youth Orchestra Certificate of Achievement and Appreciation (2012)</p>
<p> I have a great letter of recommendation from my violin teacher, who is very influential in the area and knows the violin professors of PLU and WWU personally.
I also have a great letter of recommendation from my former orchestra teacher who has performed at Carnegie Hall and is also influential in the area.</p>
<p> My essay is solid and I’m confident in it.</p>
<p> I’m confident that my auditions will have pull in the music departments. Playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor and Bach’s Partita in E major: Prelude.</p>
<p>My GPA is really my only worry for my applications. And it’s also what’s holding me back from submitting my applications. To be eligible for the PLU music scholarship I need to have both my audition and school applications in. I was hoping to wait for this quarter to end in mid-March before I sent it in so that my GPA would be higher, but it looks like I need to send it in ASAP. What would you say my chances are?</p>