Chance me for IVY.

BKSquared
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 17:50:09 +0000

Unless your race is Black, an Egyptian would not be a URM. First generation means neither of your parents went to college, whether in the US or any country. Both of these statuses are important because they are strong hooks. Is your family low income (not that you are from a low income school), that will help some. Even assuming these hooks are in place for you, the SAT scores are problematical, the 25th to 75th percentiles for these schools based on their latest Common Data Set profiles are:

Brown: 705(R); 700(M) https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/institutional-research/sites/brown.edu.about.administration.institutional-research/files/uploads/CDS_2017-2018.pdf

Cornell: 690(R); 700(M) http://irptesting2.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/CDS_2017-2018-v5.pdf

Dart: 710(R); 720(M) https://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/cds_2017-2018.pdf

This puts you below the 25th percentile for both sections, substantially so for reading. Also remember that there will be many matriculates who might be at or below the 25th percentile for 1 section but well above it for another.

If you are not a URM or first gen as defined above, your chances are “lotto” chances and will require the AO to believe in you at a very personal level based on a combination of your LoR’s, essays and EC’s. Even if both hooks are in place, I think the chances are still low because there will be many students with similar hooks who have better objective academic stat’s.

Best of luck.