<p>So I discovered today that several other students from my school are applying early decision to Brown. That kind of scared me. A lot. </p>
<p>Location: Texas (most of the time)<br>
Academics:
Small selective private high school
GPA: 4.00 unweighted (school doesnt rank)
SAT I Math 790 CR 770 W 770 (12 Essay) (one sitting)
SAT II- Literature 790; Math I 760; French w/listening 750; German 730;
US History 800
APs: Art History 5, English Lang 5, English Lit 5, US Hist 5</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:
Modeling
2007 Nordstroms
2007 Abercrombie & Fitch national campaign
2006 Wacoal Bras
2005-2006 Anthropologie, multiple spreads
a good bit of local stuff</p>
<p>Art-
Nationally published artist; have received numerous art awards
Work selected for professional gallery show this year</p>
<p>Other Stuff-
Founder and editor-in-chief of my schools weekly satirical publication
-An article I wrote was published in the Daily Texan and received local news coverage
-was suspended from school for a week for this same article (counselor explained in letter)
Young Libertarian Club- President (12), Vice President (11)
National Art Honor Society President (12), Member (11)</p>
<p>Community Service (Many hours)-
Food Not Bombs- chapter VP (I eat meat though…shh) 9-12th
8 hrs/wk All Subject tutor at local center for disadvantaged youth. 10-12th
Save The Elephants- Traveled to Africa this summer as a volunteer.</p>
<p>Hobbies- Reading, taking things apart, boys</p>
<p>When considering applying to schools such as Brown, you should type in their website on the computer knowing that there is no guarantee of admittance no matter what credentials you may have. This is not to make you feel bad, its just the truth. Numerically, you are a solid candidate and ECs look ok too. That’s all anyone can really tell you, but personally, I would love to have your scores =)</p>
<p>haha dave. well try this for wack: I am a card-carrying member of the Monarchist League of Canada, and probably will be running for Young Monarchist Co-ordinator. </p>
<p>And high five for Art History. Just gotta put it out there, it was my favourite course in my entire high school career. And no, in case anyone is curious, it wasn’t weird being a guy and taking Art History, as the school is exclusively male.</p>
<p>Ne t’inquiete pas. Tous ira bien. Je doute qu’il existe beaucoup de candidats qui sont aussi bon que tu.</p>
<p>(Would have never gotten anything close to 800 on French. Even though I have studied it for 8 years)</p>
<p>And thanks, Von_herrs. My mom’s French and I’m a dual French-American citizen, so I’ve kind of had an unfair advantage. Monarchist League of Canada?? Aha, not sure what to think of that. </p>
<p>Arslankhan90, did you even read the previous posts? I feel the same way you do.</p>
<p>Maybe I should join TEMPLE. You think so, Dave? Muffy? Definitely a h0tt EC.</p>
<p>if SAT scores actually meant anything above 2200 (i.e. “The Plateau”) I would be in hibernation, dave.</p>
<p>Oh, and Isabella, don’t worry, monarchism in Canada is not a fringe movement…right? (whatevs…after all, we are still a constitutional monarchy…technically)</p>
<p>You have fairly good chances. I think you are somewhat stronger of a candidate than I am, and since a couple independent counselors have considered me a “shoe-in” for Brown (do I sound like I actually trust them?), you should in all likelihood get a fairly decent reception at Admissions</p>
<p>“The Plateau” is how my school counselor (he went to Amherst or something and his bro went to Brown) described the reason I won’t barge into Stanford even with 2400 SAT.</p>
<p>It does make logical sense when you think about it, though. I mean, after all, when one applicant has 2250 and the other has, say, 2350, wouldn’t the fact that 2250 played 3 varsity sports, 2 of them concurrently, mean a lot more than the 100 point gap in the SAT score? This follows the Law of Diminishing Returns (from Econ). When you have sufficient amounts of something the next unit to be consumed bears less and less value for the consumer (in this case SAT scores)</p>
<p>Sure it does, but I thought that was more because the difference between a 2200 and a 2350 is like, what, two more questions right in each section?</p>
<p>probably. but the statistical significance is valid if only for the fact that you can’t get 2 more questions correct in ANY section; you have to do so in a consistent manner, i.e. for each section, which indicates a consistent higher overall level of aptitude. (circumstancial factors, like mood or state of awareness, will not cause a consistent upward or downward shift, only a random, inderterminate one). Or alternatively you could get like 60 points higher in a particular section, which too has statistical significance. Thus it is debatable if a 100 point difference could indeed be considered negligible on its own merit.</p>
<p>However, yes, any difference less than, say, 50 points is statistically meaningless.</p>
<p>And I might be biased, because my direct competitor will be exactly 100 points behind me. Might very well be me simply internalising my insecurity.</p>