> Yet if a student defines "success" as "playing a musical instrument really well" you'll think that he is well-rounded and deserves to get admitted.

East Asian female at my high school.

- 1st chair violin in the city youth orchestra

- perfect grades

- very high SAT scores

- no sports

- took or tested out of all of the classes in our high school except advanced and AP German… in three years

- admitted into MIT after her junior year

- IIRC, she had some volunteer activities in a science research lab, but nothing significant like being an author on a research paper.

She seemed to be well-rounded enough.