Will I be a competitive Brown applicant?

Clueless1Z
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:02:02 +0000

First of all, that is a pretty bad analogy… a better one might be anonymously asking people on an online forum what the minimum amount of work is that I can do and not get fired. Haha…But actually, I’m sorry, I guess that question was a lot more selfish sounding than it was meant to be. Let me rephrase myself: “Assuming I don’t change my activities in any way, because I love the things I do, the causes I support and the interests I have, and have no intention of changing them just to impress adcoms, what are my chances? Maybe give chances based on the assumption that I continue to work hard behind the scenes and without leadership roles (“as is”) and also given that I happen to assume more leadership as a natural part of the way I already live my life, without any intention of impressing anyone”. That’s more of what I meant. Believe me, if I lived my life trying to impress adcoms I wouldn’t be “collecting quarter points in a dozen areas”. I do that because I am passionate about every single one of those dozen areas