Any shot at Brown?

Applying to College
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<p>I've kinda been all over the place in terms of my top college choices, but I've decided on Brown as being my top (regular decision). Let me know what you think of my chances there for public health major, without any sugar coating plz. Thanks!</p>

<p>Intended Major: Public Health</p>

<p>Ethnicity and Gender: Indian Male
Location: TX</p>

<p>Class rank: 11/186 (my school is considered top in my city, top 10 public schools in the state, top 50 in nation; also rank should go up to 10 by mid year report)
Unweighted GPA: 3.92
Weighted GPA: 4.60</p>

<p>SAT:
Math: 770, CR: 800, Writing: 790, Total: 2360 (single sitting, superscored)</p>

<p>ACT:
English: 35, Math: 35, Reading: 34, Science: 36, Composite: 35
Writing: 10</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:
Math II: 790
Chemistry: 780
US History: 800</p>

<p>AP Scores:
5 on us history, Calc AB, Chemistry, Lang, and Stats
4 on world history</p>

<p>PSAT: 237</p>

<p>Senior year AP schedule:
Physics II, Calc BC, Biology, Macroeconomics, Government, Literature, Computer science
Non-APs:
Health Science and Technology (mandatory BS class but sounds good; has 3 rotations-Anatomy and Physiology, Bioengineering and Public Health, and Physician shadowing)</p>

<p>EC's: Cancer research over summer (should have name on 2 editorial articles and 1 research paper by Jan. or Feb.), summer internship at local university in science and technology policy last summer (wrote a blog post on food allergy policy for local newspaper), member of HOSA (historian of school chapter; advanced to area, state, and national competition in biomedical debate), NHS, NTHS, Medical Ventures, math club, Model UN, economics club, chess club (vice president), beta club. captain of varsity tennis team. physician shadowing</p>

<p>Community service:
over 700 hours; volunteer at cancer center, St. Lukes hospital, 4 yrs of volunteering as a camp counselor for multiply impaired children (also have a leadership position as a junior director of the camp), volunteered at local library in 9th grade, assorted other volunteering</p>

<p>Awards:
i have won several art and essay competitions, received award from principal of my school for academics and leadership in 9th grade, won tennis tournaments and chess tournaments , received award for calculus AB performance, national merit semifinalist</p>

<p>Essays:
should be pretty good. 8.5/10</p>

<p>Letters of Rec:
Teachers-again pretty good. 8/10
Outside-AMAZING. 10/10 </p>

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<p>Sure, you have a good shot. But note that Brown doesn’t have a public health major, they have a grad dept. There is a public policy major, I met one premed student with that major.</p>

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<p>@BrownParent‌ thanks for the response. they actually do have a Bachelors of Arts with a concentration in public health. I’ve actually selected it on my common application.</p>

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<p>Definitely a great shot at any school in the country, Brown included! What other schools are you applying to?</p>

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<p>i’m also applying to Wash U, Vanderbilt, Emory, NYU, and George Washington University. I’m also auto-admit to UT Austin since i go to a texas public school. But above all, I rly want brown. i’m afraid my class rank will hold me back tho. the good thing is that as far as i know, no one else from my school is applying there.</p>

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<p>@FischerDude97‌: I am sure you’re well aware that financial assistance (both need- and merit-based) is generally far less available, at “elite” US LACs and National Research Universities, for internationals than for US residents. I mention this only because your initial post was devoid of any fiscal information. </p>

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<p>Your class rank is perfectly fine! It’s pretty clear from your numbers that you could be valedictorian at most any school in the country. You are very well qualified for all the schools you listed, but with Brown + its peers I feel like chances for acceptance max out at around ~40% simply because of how many qualified applicants they get. I think if you expanded your list to include schools like Stanford/Cornell/Rice/Penn/Columbia/Yale/Duke you’d almost certainly get into at least one. Of course, UT Austin is great as well, and you shouldn’t apply anywhere that you haven’t researched, but I think you might be served well by adding more of those top tiers to your list.</p>

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<p>? where does he say that he is an international?</p>

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<p>^ ^ ^ ^
You’re right; my error. However, when someone indicates they are an “Indian male,” I foolishly believe they are a citizen/resident on India. Since the OP is a US citizen/resident, I would hope he would have said, “Texan (or US), of Indian heritage.” It’s assimilation, which is really the crux of America’s long immigration heritage (IMHO). </p>

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<p>Academics isn’t the concern. Brown is an interesting school that really cares about fit, so that’s what you should be thinking about.</p>

<p>Your scores, grades, are good enough already.</p>