BROWN 2014 - RD Applicants!

<p>I haven’t finished the supplement yet. I love the idea of “What don’t you know?” but I’ve been thinking about it since July and I haven’t been able to come up with any good ideas/topics, so I might have to do one of the more traditional ones.</p>

<p>Are any of you IB students??
Do you know approx. how many IB Diploma Points Brown looks for?</p>

<p>I am not IB.</p>

<p>Roskach- we take our exams in late May and we don’t find out what we made until the summer, right? That’s after we get into college. I don’t think Brown’s looking for how many diploma points we get, but that we stuck with the program until the end.</p>

<p>Yes that’s right, we don’t get our grades until the summer.
Instead we need predicted grades when applying, so I was just wondering if anybody knew how many points is required at Brown…?
Are you in the IB?</p>

<p>I’m from New York! I’m working on the “what don’t you know” essay now. I posted a question about it, I’d love your opinions.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/816270-how-creative-can-you-get-supplement-essay.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/816270-how-creative-can-you-get-supplement-essay.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Let’s make this thread bigger, I hope it gets bigger in march!</p>

<p>Hey do you think i can get in?
PLME Regular Decision…</p>

<p>EDUCATION________________________________________</p>

<p>Granada High School , Livermore, CA – Class of 2010
GPA : 3.97 Un-weighted, 4.445 Weighted ; Rank : 3 out of 536</p>

<p>Cornell University, Ithaca, NY – Undergrad Summer College program: June 2009 – August 2009
GPA : 3.529; Introduction to Biological Research (A-), Microeconomics ( B+), Environmental Science (A-)</p>

<p>Test Scores
SAT : Mathematics – 750, Critical Reading – 610, Writing – 700<br>
SAT II : Mathematics II – 760, Chemistry – 730, US History – 600
AP: Calculus AB – 5, Calculus BC – 4, Chemistry – 4, US History – 3, English - 3</p>

<p>AWARDS & HONORS________________________________________</p>

<p>University of California ELC Recognition September 2009
Given for placing in the top 4% of California HS seniors</p>

<p>Top Scholar Award April 2009
Given by Granada High School for academic excellence of 4.0 GPA and above</p>

<p>AP Scholar with Honor Award August 2009
Given in recognition of exemplary college-level achievement on Advanced Placement Program Examination</p>

<p>Third place in GHS National assessment and Testing October 2009
National Assessment & Testing administers high quality, mathematics competitions for math teams and honor societies</p>

<p>Third place in Science Odyssey March 2008
The science fair provides school students from Livermore, Dublin and Pleasanton to showcase their independent research</p>

<p>LEDERSHIP________________________________________</p>

<p>President September 2006 – Present
Granada Pre-Med Society 3 hours/week, 30 weeks/Year
• Re-founded the club in July 2008 to discuss current trends and careers in biomedical science.
• Plan and organize activities, invite guest speakers from various fields of biomedical sciences. </p>

<p>Vice President August 2009 – Present
GHS Youth Authors Association 2 hours/week, 30 weeks/Year
• Founded the club at Granada High in August 2009 to let students critique writings to enhance the individual’s ability to write succinctly and precisely.
• Moderated six discussions and submitted four writings so far</p>

<p>Publicist, Communications Officer and Secretary August 2006 – Present
GHS Interact Club 3 hours/week, 30 weeks/Year
• Planning and coordination of GHS’s largest service organization; execute community, school, environmental, international and fundraising activities. </p>

<p>Co-founder and Advisor to the President July 2008 – Present
Granada Debate and Speech Club 3 hours/week, 30 weeks/Year
• The club provides a platform to develop communication skills and critical thinking
• Contribute by researching information needed to make a proper rebuttal on a given issue. </p>

<p>Active member<br>
• GHS California Scholarship Federation; August 2008 – Present ; 1.5 hours/week, 30 weeks/Year
• GHS Model United Nations; August 2009 – Present; 4 hours/week, 30 weeks/Year
• GHS Math Club; August 2009 – Present
• GHS Cultural Club; August 2007 – June 2008; 1 hour /week, 30 weeks/Year</p>

<p>VOLUNTEER & COMMUNITY SERVICE________________________________________</p>

<p>Nursing Care Center November 2007 – Present
VA Hospital, Livermore, CA 7 hours/week
• The nursing care center provides shelter and care for the terminally ill veterans
• I comfort, feed, help and take care of terminally ill veterans. I shadow RNs and Physicians on duty</p>

<p>Government Area Hospital June 2007 – July 2007
Gudiwada, AP, India 20 hours/week
• The Hospital provides medical services to people from forty villages around the town of Gudiwada
• Comforted, fed, helped and took care of the patients in Geriatric and Pediatric departments. I shadowed Physicians on duty</p>

<p>Hindu Community and Cultural Center April 2006 – Present
Livermore, CA 4 hours every alternate week
• A center for Hindus to come to pray, study religion and participate in cultural programs.
• The center also provides bi-weekly health advisory services and conducts half yearly health fairs.
• I help at the front office, temple, kitchen, assembly hall, library, and dining areas. I assist devotees, visitors, staff and visiting Doctors</p>

<p>ARTS________________________________________</p>

<p>Granada High School Orchestra - Viola player August 2006 – March 2008</p>

<p>SCIENCE PROJECTS & RESEARCH PAPERS________________________________________</p>

<p>The Tri-Valley Intel Science and Engineering Fare October 2008 – March 2009
• Performed an in vitro experimentation to find if heat reduces oxalate levels in high oxalate foods.<br>
Science Odyssey July 2007 – March 2008
• Performed an experimentation to find the scientific reasoning behind the wilting of leaves. </p>

<p>Research Papers<br>
• Why the US Federal government should also support states researching on embryonic stem cells - GHS
• Ganges river pollution in India: The causes, effects on ecosystem and solution - Cornell University<br>
• Why diseases and illnesses should not be attributed to vaccines – Cornell University</p>

<p>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION________________________________________</p>

<p>Languages : English, French and Telugu</p>

<p>oh yeah…im Indian Male by the way…</p>

<p>I heard Brown puts test scores as more of a secondary and the admissions office really looks at personal character, talents, etc. True? False?
It’s true at least according to their common data set!</p>

<p>Please do not post your stats, use your own thread, this one is to discuss other things. the admission office will have the last word.</p>

<p>have you received your password to login?</p>

<p>hey, i applied RD to brown, and i dont look forward to waiting FOREVER
haha</p>

<p>fellow RD here! pending ED somewhere else
im currently slaving away on essays…sigh.</p>

<p>Yay Brown! First Choice all the way! :)</p>

<p>I agree with those who are talking about “What Don’t You Know?” I thought it would be really cool… until I decided to start writing it. I wrote a draft that is basically just things that I wonder about that I can never know… like Does God exist? I’m not sure if it sounds too heavy though… Maybe I should keep it lighter, like How do necklaces always get into knots? etc. (these are just sample questions, not for the whole essay) Thoughts?</p>

<p>dancer13: Yeah, I’ve been having the same issue. I have a list of questions no one seems to be able to answer, and I was thinking of just listing them instead of writing a real essay-like thing. But I was also thinking of talking about how all knowledge stems from experience or something more theoretical and philosophical than that.</p>

<p>im planning to use my stanford intellectual vitality essay.
waay too many essays for brown, i dont know when to start!</p>

<p>teenage_cliche: yeah i felt like i kept trying different things and none of them worked. what you don’t know is infinite, so it’s really hard to write about. I decided to change to the first essay and combine it with princeton, and i honestly think it’s going to be a lot better than trying too hard to do the interesting topic</p>

<p>Looking at this thread where people were talking about the “What Don’t You Know?” essay, I started freaking out thinking I forgot to do one (submitted my application last week).
Then I finally realized I did the intellectual experience one instead :]</p>