<p>What is the UW gpa? That and the rigour of your courses are more relevant, imo. </p>
<p>Sounds like Brown is a good fit for you. It is super competive for admissions, as you know, but gpa/sat isn’t everything. I advise you to write an essay that hits it out of the park. That could be the make or break for you.</p>
<p>You might be interested in the Watson Institute for International Affairs and the Taubman Center for Public Policy. Check the Poly Sci department page for the Seminars you can attend:
<a href=“Political Science | Brown University”>Political Science | Brown University;
In addition, my daughter was able to see an amazing array of speakers including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton before they ran for office.</p>
<p>My daughter took Mandarin Language (2 sem) and Russian (1 sem), although she was into sciences. She said that for Mandarin they had 5 instructors for each area (writing, pronunciation, etc) and that she met once or twice a week with just one other student for a pronounciation session, in addition to regular classes. I don’t know how well she did but she was able to have conversation with a server in a Chinese restaurant I took her too once (lol.) The Russian helped her when she took a long train trip in Urkaine one semester.</p>
<p>Brown classes are rigorous, but the atmosphere within departments and between depts is cooperative–that’s just the culture there and within the student body, from my daughter’s perspective.</p>