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<p>I will be applying for the class of 2015. I am a Caucasian female from New Jersey from a family who will be able to pay for me to go to Brown, but I do have a sister who is also in college.</p>

<p>SAT: 1470/2230. CR 710 M 760 W 760
SAT II: Math II 750, Lit 730, US History 710
ACT: 33 (E 35, M 34, R 32, S 29)
GPA, unweighted: 3.95 out of 4.3
Weighted GPA: 5.21
AP Tests: English Language (5), US History (4), Statistics (4), BC Calculus (3)
I’m an IB diploma candidate, and I will have 1 IB score but I haven’t gotten those results yet.
My school doesn’t rank.</p>

<p>Freshman and sophomore year I took all my required courses at the honors/pre-IB level (highest level my school offered) and my electives were choir, study hall, cooking, photography, and a computer applications class.
Junior year courses: IB English, IB Psychology, IB Spanish 4, AP/IB BC Calculus HL, AP Statistics, IB Physics, AP US History.
Senior year courses: IB English 4, IB Psychology HL, IB Spanish 5, IB Environmental Science, AP Biology, IB European History, AP US Government and Politics.
*I’ve exhausted my school’s math curriculum (they dropped my class for next year due to budget cuts, so I’m doubling on science to replace math next year. My counselor promised to explain this in my recommendation)</p>

<p>Extra curriculars: Winter and Spring track (4 years), Service club (4 years, secretary junior year, president senior year), youth group at my church (3 years, leader 2 years), peer leader (2 years), peer tutoring (2 years), steering committee (4 years), Relay for Life (4 years, committee member sophomore year, committee chair junior and senior year).</p>

<p>Work or volunteer: Summer camp counselor (1 year), volunteer bible school teacher (1 year), volunteer youth track coach (3 years), volunteer organizing church retreats for children (3 years), volunteer at various races/triathlons (5 years).</p>

<p>I also attended a Leadership course at Brown last summer.</p>

<p>I don’t know if there’s anything else I should include…I’m getting recommendations from my IB Psychology teacher who is also the service club adviser and my math/TOK teacher who is also the IB coordinator. Both know me very well, and I know they will write me strong recommendations. I will also get a recommendation from an adult who runs the youth group I am very involved with, or my (hopefully) English/TOK teacher next year who was my IB extended essay mentor.</p>

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<p>Use the search function. You’re going to get the same answer as we give every time. Chillax and enjoy senior year. For the vast majority of people who post on here, there’s nothing particular that discriminates you from anyone else, so there’s no way anyone on here can give accurate, or even meaningful chances. Unless you’re so “golden”, or so unlikely to get in, that YOU realize your own chances before posting. Then, what’s the point?</p>

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<p>im confused. How did you take IB Math HL as a junior? Also, how did you do well on the IB Math HL exam, but not the AP Calc BC exam. I know they test different things, but never have I heard anyone say that the AP Calc exam (AB or BC) was harder than IB Math HL…</p>

<p>Anyway, I think you should apply and I think you stand a decent chance.</p>

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<p>swim2daend, I’m a year ahead in math, so I took calculus as a junior. I was supposed to take IB Further Math as a senior, but the school screwed me over. I didn’t take the HL math exam because you can’t take either of the IB calc exams as a junior, especially not an HL test. The only IB test I took this year was psychology. This is complicated, but because my school isn’t giving me a math to take next year, I am now SLing in math (even though I already took the HL class). Because there were so few kids who were going to take that level calculus, they combined IB HL and AP BC, so we tried to force the two courses into one…</p>

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<p>^^GOOD PLAN!!! Lol. The HL exam was so hard and I love math!!!.. I understand why that happened. IB > AP in importance (since the exam is a deciding factor in your diploma). Though, after HL, SL should be a breeze (soooo jealous lol).</p>

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<p>Sounds pretty great, so best wishes!
You never really know, but I’d think you have a decent shot at being accepted.</p>

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