Extracurricular Activities
-Environmental Club (President and Co-founder)
-Academic Quiz Bowl Team (Co-Captain Varsity)
-Model UN Club (Treasurer and Founding Member)
-Student Government (Homeroom Representative)
-DECA (State Competitor)
-National Honors Society
-Trail Maintenance Volunteer and Coordinator at local state park
-Volunteer with Church
-Tennis team JV/Varsity
-Volunteer and Coordinator with Township Parks and Recreation Commission
-Participant in Long Island University Summer Honors Institute in Diplomatic Solutions in Climate Change
-Tennis Summer Camps
-Tutoring local students and neighbors
Essays
-There all pretty good. Probably not super amazing, but they are somewhat interesting and different.
Interview
-It went well. She really liked how I was interested in Legos and how they impacted my life.
Personal
-Southeastern Pennsylvania
-White
I’m definitely not a top-notch candidate, but I’m just curious what anyone thinks my chances are. I didn’t really have a lot of focus to what I wanted to do during my freshman and sophomore year, but during my junior year I really developed and interest in environmental science and politics, which is what I tried to center my application around.
Your ACT is a hair above average, while your SAT subject scores and GPA are OK – competitive, if not outstanding. So I think you could clear the quantitative hurdles.
That means you need to nail the qualitative portions.
Without a hook, your chances ED are probably slightly above the overall admit rate, while your RD chances are probably somewhat below that percentage (RD chances are lower than ED chances for most – nothing odd there). So, as it is for most Brown applicants, you’d likely be a reach.
If you nail the qualitative aspects of your app – writing killer essays, mentioning and concentrating on the right ECs, turning in strong rec letters, and demonstrating interest (it can’t hurt…) – your chances will increase.
Please don’t do this. Starting chancing threads just b/c you are anxious about your application is really pointless. Nobody really knows at this point, and how do their responses help? The ones who say ‘yes, you should get in’ know absolutely no more than the ones who say ‘sorry, mate- no hope’. And the ones in the middle who are saying ‘maybe yes, maybe no’ are only telling you what you already know. You know where your stats are in the Brown profile, you know how your ECs stack up. After that only the Brown AdComm can say more- and they will in good time. Go find some of the other 2 million students waiting to hear and do something to distract yourselves.
When you hear, then come on back for congrats or sympathy.