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08-07-2007, 06:53 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 40
| is it worth applying?
indian male in california
#3 ranked high school in the state(Troy High)
UW gpa: 3.50
W gpa: 4.23
Sat I: 750M 720CR 700W
Sat II: 780 IIC 790 Biology 800 US History
AP: European History 5 Computer Science A 5 Psychology 4 US History 5 Environmental 5 Computer Science AB 5 English Language 4(taking 6 more this year)
Grades: Sophmore Year: European History AP A/A
Spanish 2 Honors B/C
Computer Science A/B
English 2 Honors A/B
Algebra 2 (honors 1st sem, regular 2 sem) C/A
Chemistry B/B
Junior Year: U.S. History AP A/A
Spanish 3 B/B
Computer Science AB A/A
English Language AP B/B
Precalc/Trig A/A
Environmental Science AP A/A
Psychology AP A/A
Senior Year US Government AP(1st Sem)/Economics AP(2st Sem)
English Literature AP
Calculus AB AP
Biology AP
Statistic AP
Physics
EC(dont so great : ( )
1 Summer Intership at Boeing
100+ Volunteer Hrs at Hospital
1 Summer Job at In N Out
Key Club(no leadership)
Interact Club(no leadership)
Red Cross Club(no leadership)
Do I have any chance? If not where do I have chance(of places with good engineering programs)? | 
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08-07-2007, 06:54 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 1,327
| sure apply, write good essays and get good recs and maybe you'll get in...
your GPA is low and your EC's are "meh"... | |
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08-07-2007, 09:20 PM
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 124
| PKswmr who the hell are you? | |
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08-07-2007, 09:25 PM
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#4 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: KS/Prov
Posts: 639
| some highschool kid | |
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08-08-2007, 12:32 AM
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#5 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 40
| hey hey, can we focus on me haha | |
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08-08-2007, 02:12 AM
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#6 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 139
| I'd just like to say that you have fantastic grades for someone who goes to Troy (I know several people who go there and they struggle to maintain As and Bs). Your GPA is pretty weak, but your SAT scores are good, so your stats break even.
ECs aren't stellar, but you could write a good essay about your internship at Boeing or volunteering at the hospital. It's not too late to start a club that is actually meaningful (i.e. a community outreach program that distinguishes itself from Key Club and Interact, etc.), so admissions officers will be less inclined to think you just started the club for the sake of starting one before the admissions process.
Brown does rank its students academically and personally (character; ECs; essays) on a 1-6 scale, with 6 being the best. For you:
Academics: 5 (worst case scenario: 4)
Personal: 4 (given that you write great essays)
which according to this presentation given by a former admissions officer there, gives you about a 50-60% chance of being accepted. Are you a legacy by any chance? because that will boost your chances by at least 15%. | |
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08-08-2007, 02:53 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In a bubble
Posts: 4,852
| OrchiThief: Where'd you hear about the ranking system? | |
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08-08-2007, 03:03 AM
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#8 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 40
| im not legacy, my brother got in but didnt go, i hate him with a passion now | |
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08-08-2007, 10:33 AM
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#9 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 135
| You need to show more racial sensitivity. Volunteer in Korea then write about how it changed your life. Work on the yearbook maybe. | |
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08-12-2007, 11:12 PM
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#10 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 139
| tetrisfan: I was at a Brown summer program last month, and a former admissions officer (Bill Caskey, I think) gave a presentation on college admissions, but focused a lot on Brown. He showed us a chart of one's chances based on their number ranking in academics/non-personal. The percentages I listed above are those that I wrote down. | |
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08-13-2007, 05:08 AM
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#11 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 412
| Didn't that girl who snuck into Stanford go to Troy High? | |
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08-13-2007, 01:25 PM
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#12 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 44
| Troy might be ranked 3 in the california, but it's definately a famous school. The kids from Chicago Lab (in, well, Chicago) know about Troy. It wouldn't surprise me if most of the colleges knew of it too. | |
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08-13-2007, 01:36 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 1,327
| "PKswmr who the hell are you?"
-yeah sorry, I don't know what I'm talking about. | |
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08-13-2007, 02:33 PM
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#14 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: LINY/Providence
Posts: 1,924
| No one in this thread is an adcom or has any special experience that gives them any more knowledge than anyone who's gone to an infosession at any given university has.
No one can really tell you what your chances are, the entire process is far too complicated to make any reasonable predictions, as I'm sure you've seen anecdotally, and as anyone who's been around and doesn't stand to make a profit by pretending there exists a means to tell whether someone can get in somewhere or not can tell you.
If you're interested in non-qualified people, who have no more information than you can get Googling, judging you for college admissions, there exists a whole forum dedicated to it: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...isplay.php?f=5
We'd love to answer any question you have about Brown over here. | 
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08-13-2007, 04:47 PM
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#15 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 40
| ya that girl was from troy and i kinda nu her hahahahaha | |
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