<p>If it’s no trouble, could someone please rate my chances of admission ED and RD? Dankeschön</p>
<p>I’m a rising white male senior at a public high school in southeastern Pennsylvania</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA out of 4.0 is 3.95
Class rank is 6 out of 453</p>
<p>SAT: 1470 = 760 math and 710 verbal (I have to take the new SAT in October)
SAT II: 800 biology-m, 790 writing, 780 math IIC
AP scores: 5 biology, 5 statistics, 5 European history</p>
<p>My courses, I would surmise, are considered the most challenging my school offers. This year I’m taking AP Calculus BC, AP German, and AP Chemistry.
I’m working on making my essays as great as possible, and so far I’ve gotten good reviews from my guidance counselor, English teacher, gifted teacher, family, etc.
Three recommendations are on the way from my piano teacher, AP Bio teacher, AP Euro teacher, and counselor. They all promised me that they’ll be fantastic letters. My counselor is also a very good writer.</p>
<p>Only awards I have gotten are Distinguished Honor Rolls for 11 out of 12 quarters; Highest Honors (highest grade) Awards for an assortment of classes including AP Bio, Tennis letters, AP Scholar, and a stupid little thing my teacher made: “Most Proficient Student of Classical Music”</p>
<p>Extracurricular Stuff:
o Science club, I started it in ninth grade, and now there are about a dozen members. We do a lot of discussions and labs centered around topics that are not normally part of the honors curriculum. For example, this year we covered concepts such as chemiluminescence, esters, liquid chromatography, and oscillations.
o Tennis team 9, 10, 11, 12 (I managed the team in 11th grade)
o Only high school tutor at elementary summer school 9, 10
o Hospital (ER, Day Surgery, TCU) volunteer 11, 12
o Internship in cancer research at the end of this summer
o Piano for 11 years
o Violin 8 years
o German club 9 (then it ceased to exist)
o Math club and competitions but with no distinctions 11, 12
o La Salle University summer CSI Chemistry workshop 12
o Rohm & Haas Career Awareness Workshops 11
o Golf (for leisure) 5 years
o Photographer’s assistant this summer</p>
<p>I realllly want to become a surgeon (I’m going through the neurosurgeon phase now…I think the last phase was thoracic surgery). My essay is on the conflict that arises when I must choose between the easy path in life and the hard path: easy being taking over the family wine business and not really needing to fend for myself in the real world, hard being at least 8 years of challenging education plus a responsibility to forge my own way in life.</p>
<p>Therefore, I’m interested in PLME, and I can’t decide if I should apply early to Brown. Basically, does anybody think I’m at all competitive enough to apply to this school?</p>