Anyone have a miracle to share?

floatingriver
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:47:34 +0000

I don’t know how easy your school was, but at my school the only people with GPAs above 3.9 mortgage their life to schoolwork. Their ECs are bland and solely academic. 3.8 GPAs on the other hand are viewed as quite impressive and most of those people participate in more diverse extracurriculars. As far as avoiding weaknesses goes, my GPA would be about .1 higher if I didn’t get mostly B’s in English. At Brown I do not plan to take a single English or Literature class. This does not mean that I will not explore many new fields at Brown. You can avoid one subject and still take a diverse set of courses. I’m sure a lot more than 5% of Brown students boycott their one weak subject.