Am I on track? Just visited today!

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<p>I just visited Brown today and fell in love! :slight_smile: I’m a junior and I was wondering if anyone could tell me if I’m on a good track towards possible admissions or what I might do to improve… I would love to concentrate in International Relations and take some music/theater courses as well</p>

<p>Female, Spanish</p>

<p>Current GPA: 97</p>

<p>Test Scores:
ACT- Composite 33, English 36, Math 29, Reading 32, Science 36
SAT II World- 800
SAT II Biology M- 800
AP Euro- 5
AP Bio- 5
(Taking AP US History, AP Physics B, AP Human Geography, and AP Lang this year. Plan to take more APs next year)</p>

<p>Community Service:
Sunday School teacher for the past three years
Directed the Church Christmas Pageant
Organizing UNICEF backed fundraiser “Suitless for Students” (Suitlessforstudents.org )
Missions Trip to Costa Rica to rebuild a school</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Activities:
Tri M Music Honor Society
Asian American Society (Although I’m not Asian- I’m Spanish lol I just like Asian Culture)
Half Tones Women’s Choir
Half Tones SATB Choir
Piano Lessons
President of Speech and Debate Team
Euro Challenge (economics team)
Fed Challenge (also an economics team)</p>

<p>Other:
Solo contests for voice for all of high school- highest rating (for any New Yorkers NYSSMA)
Solo contests for piano for all of high school- highest rating (Also NYSSMA)
All County Voice all of high school (select group based on above solos)
United Nations Intern this past summer
Worked for the NGO “Temple of Understanding” to promote Religious Understanding
Steel Magnolias- Played Shelby
Numerous speech awards- top three in the state in my division, semi finalist and finalist at invitationals</p>

<p>What could I improve on?! Please suggestions =)</p>

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<p>The “party line” re areas that you might work on:
math score. the rest is great for so early on. Of course continue to do the very best you can in your course work.
Delve in depth into one of your EC in a way that you continue/have a leadership role, or are in some other way doing something that shows that level of self direction and commitment to. particularly if it is something that takes time and passion. (club presidents per se are a dime a dozen at this level.)</p>

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<p>Yeah I might take it again at the end of Pre Calc. I know Brown superscores the ACT so it would be to my advantage. </p>

<p>I’ve been trying to make speech and debate the EC which I’m really passionate about (not that I don’t love all my ECs) I’m there for two hours three to four days a week and competing three Saturdays a month. As president I generally do a lot of the organizing and behind the scenes booking hotels, fundraising, helping people write debate cases, finding speechies interpretive pieces and who lot of other stuff. </p>

<p>Of course I know their are students who do this and have cured cancer and play 4 varsity sports :wink: haha. So I’m not getting my hopes up or anything. Thanks for your advice. I really appreciate it.</p>

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<p>Wow, it’s great that you’re getting started on this so early.
Keep your grades up, delve into your ECs, take the SAT, and HAVE FUN! Junior year is hard but so great. You’ve already put yourself in a good position, so don’t stress too much.</p>

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<p>Everything looks great- Apply ed and continue really making an impact with ur ec’s… then its all about the essays</p>

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<p>Wait, is that new that Brown superscores ACT? When I applied, they only superscored the SAT, but not the ACT…</p>

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<p>They told us not to worry about superscoring our ACT but that they would do it when we submitted our app at the information session</p>