Am I on Track?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>Hi, I’m a Junior, and while I haven’t taken the SATs yet, I was wondering whether my other things (grades, ECs) were in the right direction to have a reasonable chance at Brown (yes, in short, I’m asking for a chancing. But this sounded less repetitive then the other posts on the board :-))</p>

<p>GPA: 4.04 (on the 4.3 scale. All honors and one A.P class)
Rank: 9/192
APs: U.S History (test not 'till May. Current average is in the A range. This, and chemistry, are the only APs my school offers for Juniors).
ECs: Features Editor of my School Newspaper, Head editor of school literary magazine, Spanish Club, Karate Lessons (4 years), Prozdor (a religious school thing outside of regular school. Has its own separate transcript), Piano lessons (nine years), NHS, Spanish NHS. I am a staff member on Mugglenet.com, one of the top Harry Potter fansites on the internet. I also do a lot of writing (Two National Novel Writing Month wins), and am currently in the process of writing a novel to be published. I have also self published one book currently on sale at Amazon.com.
Volunteer Work: I shelve books at my town’s public library for about two hours a week.
Jobs: This summer will be my third working as a counselor at a day camp a few towns away from me.
Awards: Century Club (Award given to top twenty members of class).
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Hook: My published work? I’ve sold a few copies of the one I published myself. Hopefully, I’ll be able to publish my current project the traditional way.
Strengths: passionate about my favorite subjects (English, History), writing, and my ECs in general, which I feel (or hope) are a little off the beaten path.
Weaknesses: My grades are good, but I’m not a super genius. My math grade freshman year is something I desperately wish I could white-out. Plus, while I haven’t taken the SATs, yet, my scores from my home practice ones aren’t quite up where I want them to be (not terrible though. My writing is falling in the 700s, Critical reading getting better. Math is my main issue).</p>

<p>Other schools considering: Yale, Barnard, Brandeis, Middlebury College, Boston University, NYU, among others. But Brown is my favorite… :slight_smile: <em>Sigh</em> what I’d do to have no distribution requirements…</p>

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<p>As I’m sure you’re very well aware, nobody can tell you with complete certainty that you’re IN or OUT-especially at an Ivy League school. Your EC’s seem on par so far, as do your grades, but we should see your SAT scores and senior year grades so that we could predict more accurately.</p>

<p>You have nothing to worry about though, with those EC’s/stats you’ll go to a mighty fine school! :)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the reply! I know its still early in the game. I just have this fear that I’ll suffer through this year, only to discover that it was all for naught. The vote of confidence has cheered me up though. “A mighty fine” school works perfectly for me! :-)</p>

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<p>yeah keep it up. ull be fine</p>