<p>I wish I were #1 and had a perfect SAT score, but unfortunately I am not. However, can a really impressive essay increase my chance of admission even if I ain’t #1 and my SAT score is 2270?</p>
<p>i got into PLME off of what i assume to be a waitlist for PLME. I was 3rd in my class, had a 4.2 to 4.3 GPA. I volunteered and was president of my school's NHS club thingy. My SAT [the old one] score was 1270. I got a little letter priority mailed to me after regular decisions were sent out. So now im in PLME. I have no idea if this can help you in anyway, lol. But yeah. Like all things, there's never real way of knowing if you are what Brown is looking for. Just give it a shot if you think it's the place for you.</p>
<p>I know a salutatorian without perfect SATs who got into PLME.</p>
<p>PLMErs and nagroc09, even though scores are pretty important. what do u think plme looks for. is it the desire of being a dr. and the work u have done to help shape ur character in that direction? how many recs do u need and are they also huge factor? how would u rank these criteria?</p>
<p>for me i've read up on autism in Time magazine and researched the topic on my free time. I got interested in autism and found a nearby volunteering place where the kids are autistic, so i had a hands on approach too (not just info from what I read) learning about their behavior. I like to directly impact ppl (helping/teaching autistic children)and to me being a doctor is the best way to interact with others. im planning on using this as my essay. i accumulated about 150 hrs since i just found this opportunity last yr. so if my gpa u/w is 3.7 and SAT is 2050 and ECs few but strong, hopefully super bio rec...will i have a decent shot?</p>
<p>also this is kinda random but does brown require a science SAT II? i already took IIC and Chinese which avg is 750. unfortunately my bioM was 680 :[..do i need to retake or can i just send math and chinese?</p>
<p>While last time I applied to Brown you only needed two SATIIs (plus writing, since I had the old SAT) and thus you don't NEED to send bio (I don't think), I would go ahead and retake it. If you are planning to get a very strong bio recommendation as you say, it would be in your best interest to have the scores to back it up so that the things your teacher says seem to match your mastery of the subject.</p>
<p>i think that the desire to become a doctor and interact with people/patients is probably, if not the most important, thing to worry about when applying to PLME. If you can transfer your love of science and medicine, or what have you, to your essay, then i think you have a good shot. Atlantiz: my SAT II bio score was awful; a 640. But I believe my recommendations and essay helped me out where i was hurting. But of course, a good score can always help.. </p>
<p>Be sure your essay represents you and your desire to go on with PLME [it's an 8+ year long program..], then make sure that your reccomendations [I remember having to get one science recommendation and one non-specific rec...] are good, and just sit back and wait. Even if your scores aren't what you would like them to be, there's little you can do, so long as you did as well as you could.</p>
<p>Is it okay to get a rec from my math teacher? I am better at math, and my math teacher said he would love to write my rec. And Ms. Lisa2005, are you in the PLME?</p>
<p>is PLME looking for students that are well rounded (ie interest in medicine and english) or mostly focused on the sciences?</p>
<p>what worries me most is that you have to get into brown first to be considered for this program.. and chances are i'm gonna get rejected..</p>
<p>you guys...stop worrying about what PLME is looking for. I think it's pretty clear that they're not searching for one specific thing versus another. A pretty wide spectrum of people seems to be represented in the PLME class- people who are extremely strong in science, people who have great test scores and GPAs, people who volunteer as their main activity, people who have not so great scores, people who are focused on the humanities, people who are split between humanities and science, and the list goes on. That's the point of PLME in a sense- to accomodate all these far-reaching interests in one program and in the end produce a diverse class with one common interest, medicine. </p>
<p>If I had to say what was the most important thing on your PLME application based on my unqualified and amateur analysis..it would be essays followed by recommendations.</p>
<p>I was not a PLME, no. Just thought I would respond to the SAT part with my opinion.</p>