Do I have a chance?

yaintime21
Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:28:18 +0000

So I know this should go in the “chance me” thread, but someone there told me that Brown doesn’t require SAT/ACT scores which is an obvious idiocy so I’m sticking with you guys… because you are probably more aware of what’s down at Brown. I’m a junior btdubs.

Objective:
* SAT I (breakdown): –
* ACT: 32
* SAT II: 740 (US H), 650 (Bio), also taking Lit,
* Weighted GPA: Freshman year (3.9 UW, 4.25 W), sophomore year (3.96 UW, 4.21 W), junior year, thus far (3.92 UW, 4.57 W)
* Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): –
* AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (5)
* Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, AP Bio, AP French (or Latin I if there’s no AP French available next year), AP Lit, Adv. Journalism II, Pre-Calc, Mythology, AP Pysch, Sociology
* Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
-Honorable Mention, Column, MIPA Awards
-Best Affirmative Award (debate camp)
-Sent something into the Scholastic Art and Writing awards… that was like two weeks ago though

Subjective:

* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): school newspaper (managing editor, it’s one of the top ten best school newspapers in the country), Debate Team (president, founder), French Club (president, founder), WILLOW (branch leader), YWFC (president), NHS, Strong Girls

Job/Work Experience: bagger at grocery store (20 hrs/week)

Volunteer/Community service: tutor at this place for low-income inner-city elemetary schoolers in reading and writing, tutor at HS, tutor at elementary school in math, do volunteer historical/archive research at my town’s historical society

Summer Activities: journalism camp at MSU since 8th grade, writing camp at Iowa (apparently they have a really good writing camp…), debate camp


Other

* State (if domestic applicant): MI

Country (if international applicant): –

School Type: public

Ethnicity: White

Gender: Female

Income Bracket: <180k

Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): –


…not amazing, but do you guys have any advice? I still have a year to improve. THANK YOU SO MUCH!