Chance me ED for Brown

bluebird4467
Sun, 09 Dec 2018 19:35:18 +0000

Please chance me! I am applying to Brown ED for the class of 2023.

Weighted GPA: 4.15
Unweighted GPA: 3.98
Ethnicity: White (European)
Gender: Female
Intended major: Environmental Studies
Location: Denver, Colorado (born and raised)
Income: 500k
AP Classes (below)
Sophomore- AP Human Geography (5)
Junior- AP Physics (test score not available; didn’t do test, but got an A in the class); AP Gov (5)
Senior (currently taking)- AP Lit; AP Art History; AP Environmental Science
ACT: 33 (essay 10/12)
Extracurriculars/awards:

Senior Class Vice President

National Honors Society & Spanish NHS

Environmental Club President

Mock Trial (A Team/ team captain) - I have participated in mock trial all 4 years

Tennis (varsity junior and senior year; captain senior year)

I play piano (since age 5; I am classically trained), electric guitar (for 1 year), and ukulele (3 years)

Volunteer at Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Service trip to Costa Rica (summer before Junior year): worked on ecological coffee farms, learned about sustainability, Spanish immersion program (placed in Advanced Group)

Service trip to the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (summer before Senior year): worked on tortoise sanctuaries, worked at an elementary school, learned a lot about Darwin, evolution, conservation, biodiversity, etc.

Internship for 3 summers at a small law firm downtown (mailing, online work, filing, etc.)

My school is a very small (257 students total) all-girls independent Catholic school. My school doesn’t have class rankings but I am in the top 10% of my class for sure. We can’t take any AP classes until sophomore year (and we can only take one that year). We have a block schedule, meaning that our classes are an hour and 30 minutes long, so we have 4 blocks during a day. We cannot take very many AP classes as a result. I will graduate with 6, which is a high number for my school. Nobody from my school has ever been accepted to Brown (about a dozen have applied in recent years).

I think my common app essay is unique- I wrote about becoming a vegetarian by telling a story of a family dinner when I was 10 years old, and then discussed how I developed my passion for environmentalism and how I have shown that passion throughout my life.

my letters of rec should be really good, I am very close with my teachers who wrote them and I know they will do a great job.