<p>Thinking about Brown and another school (non-ivy), be brutally honest though, do I have a chance?</p>
<p>Junior Transfer
3.4 college GPA from 3rd tier school
Great Recs, I’m hoping at least, both professors were more than happy to do them.
Lots of community involvement, events, etc.
Good resume (if that helps at all)
Pretty good and compelling reasons (at least that’s what others, including a couple of current Brown students have told me)</p>
<p>Don’t want to go too much in detail, but do I even stand a chance with a 3.4? I’ve had mostly A’s, it was just a couple B’s, including one in a 6 language credit class that hurt me. Nothing lower though…</p>
<p>everyone has a chance, but brown really looks to see how well you have done in college. with that low of a gpa i don’t think you have a shot but who knows. brown bases all their admissions on the individual and it is all over the place sometimes. you might as well apply</p>
<p>I’m applying as an engineering student for my junior year. I am currently at the University of Colorado studying Electrical and Computer Engineering. I’m holding a 3.85 GPA and got a 4.0 this past semester, taking all very difficult engineering classes. I have a 4.0 within my major and got stellar recs. I also don’t need financial aid. Anyone know how this will stack up?</p>
<p>Only 2 weeks from the deadline! Start to get a bit anxious…I haven’t even have my first draft in place…too much work this semester… Hoping to finish it in 3 days and then revise the s**t out of it. HAHA.</p>
<p>How many of you guys are done with applications already?</p>
<p>@griffinmyers: I might be applying to engineering too (as a sophomore though)! Electrical possibly. (or econ or polisci). i thought Colorado school of mine is better in engineering?</p>
<p>@mouse9020 I’ve finished mine. Just making sure all my materials make it in at this point. Mines is a great school; however, I don’t see how it is pertinent to a discussion about transferring from CU to Brown.</p>
<p>I am currently on an internship, and I am taking two evening classes. Both Professors said they will be willing to sign the mid-term form <em>after</em> my mid-terms. Both tests are the week of March 1st, so the earliest I can send it will be nearly 2 weeks too late.
The website is ambiguous, is this form required? If it is optional: will not sending it in hurt my chances?</p>
<p>Hey would you guys mind chancing me, pretty please?</p>
<p>I go to Georgetown
GPA: 3.92</p>
<p>EC:
Pretty involved with Model UN, chairing the high school conference my school hosts each year
Writer for a school paper
Radio DJ for school radio, write music reviews for the blog</p>
<p>High School:</p>
<p>GPA: 4.15 W
APs: 5: Calculus BC, Macroeconomics, Comparative Gov 4: Physics B, Latin Vergil
Act: 34
SAT II: Math I-740 Math II-790 Lit-670
Class Rank: top 7%
Most rigorous course load</p>
<p>EC:
Started a t-shirt company
Started a ski club
Created and Edited a page on the school paper
Model UN for four years, 5 or so awards
Head of lights crew for school theatre group
Band and Jazz Band for 4 years, 1st chair and elected as band secretary</p>
<p>No FA needed</p>
<p>I am transferring because Georgetown has an extremely political atmosphere, everything her is based around politics, which is something I’m not interested in. I want to major in economics and philosophy, preferably some course of subjects where I can combine the two subjects into one major. Georgetown doesn’t allow this, and, frankly, their econ and philosophy departments do not seem to be the best. At Brown I would probably design my own major combining econ and philo, this is some of what I discussed in my essays. </p>
<p>Thanks for chancing me, if you do, I really appreciate it.</p>
<p>I’m brand new to the site, just thought I’d introduce myself! I’m going to be applying to Brown and Georgetown for transfer. I have a 3.6 (going for a 4.0 this semester) at American University in DC, and I’m in the Honors program. I’m in the jazz band, went on an alternative break to Thailand to study the Burmese democracy movement, and I’m starting a nonprofit that I’m taking to Clinton Global Initiative University in Miami to compete for grant money. I went to a gifted high school and got a 3.6uw/4.2w GPA and got 4’s or 5’s on 7 APs. In high school I was a state champion rower, in speech and debate, class vice president, and directed the school’s 40th anniversary celebration. I’m going to be submitting my SAT which is 800/770/800.</p>
<p>I know it’s a crapshoot, but what do you all think? The big hang up is my grades, especially how they’re the same in hs and college. Also, if you get rejected as a sophomore transfer, how to your chances of transferring as a junior compare? Has anyone done this?</p>
<p>What do you guys think about that? It seems like it might be a good thing and give us higher odds of getting admitted. On the other hand, it seems like they might be less likely to admit those of us asking for financial aid. What do you think?</p>
<p>Financial Aid is most definitely going to play a role. That said, just because you are applying for it doesn’t mean your not going to get in. Just have compelling enough essays and show you took advantage of your current college as much as possible.</p>
<p>Late to this thread… Applying for applied math from Vassar with a 3.75. High school GPA was something around an A-. Decent extracurriculars, mostly a cappella and theatre. ACT score around 75th percentile for admitted freshmen. Deferred/denied for freshmen admission. Here goes nothing.</p>
<p>Edit: need-blind is scaring the crap out of me.</p>
<p>The financial aid is scaring me as well. I’ve been thinking about it more and more and I’ve pretty much realized that if I don’t get good aid that maybe an 80K+ loan isn’t worth it for only two years of college. Unless by some miracle I get good aid and scholarships.</p>
<p>In a way, maybe it’s a good thing that Brown is need-aware. It saves students from getting in and then realizing that they can’t really afford it.</p>
Hoping to finish it in 3 days and then revise the s**t out of it. HAHA.</p>