Brown ED Chances 2022

amberhearst
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 02:49:11 +0000

Ok Hi @RowanAvida!

After reading your academic credentials you clearly qualify for Brown’s standard. Nice work! Applying ED definitely can raise your chances slighty, but not significantly. That being said, Brown is a “lottery” type school, as the Ivies usually are, meaning a bunch of kids are submitting perfect SAT/ACT scores and perfect GPAs—at that point they will randomly select people. My advice is to pick what you are really passionate about on your extra circculars (one to three things) and amp those up. If an Ivy wants perfect scores and a well rounded kid they can easily get access to him or her—that want kids with a spike, and kids who are passionate and will be success later in life (so Brown can brag about them attending their school). But remember, they will only predict your future achievements on past achievements. I like your internship with the hospital—I’d like a name if it’s that prestigious to be 1 or 2 in the world—like that should be the main focus if it’s that amazing of a hospital—do not downplay that. And I like the STEM gap idea, schools love that type of stuff— female empowerment. My final advice is work on your common app essay! “Okay” won’t cut it. You have to open up with a moment and then explain how it impacted you then circle back to the beginning. If you’d like, send me your theme of your essay or you can send it—I help and read tons of essays from students! And calm down girl, you’ve worked way too hard so take a deep breath, you’ve got this. And remember it’s not where you go it’s what you do when you get there.

I’m a Junior at Yale majoring in Economics—so a I get the Ivy’s can be tough!