u/Expensive-Guava-2366

Hi if u know me irl no u dont

Demographics

* Gender: female
* Race/Ethnicity: white/middle eastern
* Residence: big city
* Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): none

Intended Major: Applied as cogsci/linuistics major to all but probably gonna change. also applied dual degree to schools that offered that to jazz studies

Academics

* GPA/Rank (or percentile): 3.98UW/5.32W
* \# of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 11 APs at time of graduation
* Senior Year Course Load: ap calc ab, physics, APCSP, AP Bio, AP Lit, band (i know this is light af believe me i was surprised)

Standardized Testing

* SAT/ACT: 36, taken once
* AP/IB: all 5s on 7 AP classes since freshman year

Extracurriculars/Activities:

activities 1-3 were all music related so i’m jus bunching them into one. i was in multiple extracurricular ensembles and also led/currently lead my own group that i play gigs with in my city

the rest:
student council for an academic cohort at my school
volunteering w local board of elections
sophomore year summer internship
private spanish lessons/independent study
science olympiad

Awards/Honors:

college board award stuff
local music award
state level music award
seal of bilteracy in spanish, anticipated in my native language which is not spanish. i am trilingual
national honor society

Essays/LORs/Interviews:

i wrote all essays literally in hours the day of the application due date so they were a bit rushed but i think they were very unique. i can talk more about this if anyone is wondering bc i definitely think they carried my application a lot

LOR from my ap chem and band teacher who both know me very well, but i don’t think i could reasonably rate them w/o reading lol

no interviews

ALSO!!! I submitted an art supplement (used my prescreens) to Brown and Columbia via slide room. all other schools i auditioned in person at

Decisions:

only applied to 6 schools

UMiami/UMiami Frost EA - accepted w/ full tuition scholarship
JHU/Peabody RD - waitlisted :(
URochester/Eastman RD - accepted
Northwestern/Bienen RD - accepted
Brown RD - accepted
Columbia RD - accepted + likely letter + committed!

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