<p>STANDARDIZED TESTING:
ACT–34 Composite
SAT–700 M; 670 CR; 760 W (2130 overall, will probably retake)
SAT II–750 US History; 720 Biology; 680 Math 1 and 2
APs–History-5 Biology-3</p>
<p>SIGNIFICANT ECs/Awards:
National History Day (9-12)–finished top 6 in the state every year; this year finished 2nd in the nation
STAND (Student Anti-Genocide Coalition) (11-12)–Founder; lobbied numerous elected officials; organized fundraisers; etc.
Class President (10-12)–planned prom, fundraisers, etc
Governor’s School For International Studies–5 week summer program; will get a good letter of reconmmendation from them
Debate Team (9-12)–elected co-captain 11th grade (hopefully again 12th); selected as top 5 debaters at my school to compete in the final round; undefeated team junior year (8-0)
National Merit Commended
Lots of volunteer work at a food pantry
Job–Tourguide (9-11)–20 hrs per week; Ice Cream (11-12)–20 hrs per week</p>
<p>SIGNIFICANT EXTRA INFORMATION:
–studying Arabic, Spanish, Japanese
–most difficult courseload (all honors and APs) but my public high school is small and does not really send kids to very good colleges
–i hope to get good recommendations and write a good essay</p>
<p>Your stats are very within the range and even better than Brown’s admitted student profile. However with your ECs, definetly try to identify the cohesive element that ties them together. Then once you find it have ALL your essays speak of that element (that passion) but from different perspectives. With the common app, it allows you to write an essay about whatever you want, so use it to write about your passion. Good Luck!</p>
<p>i disagree. sometimes our ec’s are all over the place. there doesn’t need to be a concrete link between arabic and food pantries
look, write an essay that is good, period. find the best topic and use it. your passion will come through and tie your essay together naturally if you speak to everything with passion. don’t force something to try to tie it all together.</p>
<p>your chances look pretty solid, though i’d definitely suggest retaking the sat. 60% of those admitted break 700 in all three sections, so i’d say just boosting your CR by 30 or 40 points will help significantly. right now its only 10 points over the 25 percentile in their admit profile, and in my opinion thats too close for comfort.</p>
<p>other than standardized test scores, your ec’s look good, and i think you need to strike a middle path between claysoul and dbate. you need to have a visible focus that’ll catch the admission officer’s attention, but it doesnt need to be something that ties together every facet of your resume. in fact, the typical brown profile is the person who has a lot of disparate interests, all of which play to various aspects of his/her personality. what that focus ends up being is obviously something about which you’ll need to think very deeply , but from what i garner from your ec’s, an essay about the importance of internationalism and social activism seems like a good fit.</p>
<p>yeah, i’m sort of hoping that they will look at my ACT score as opposed to my SAT score but you’re right…i’m retaking in October I think. Thanks!!</p>