Brown, Rice, Cornell, Northwestern... Chance Me

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Major: Engineering (likely Civil with some architectural history mixed in)</p>

<p>OTHER COLLEGES TO WHICH I AM APPLYING (safeties excluded):
- Rice
- Cornell
- Northwestern
- UT Plan II/Architectural Engineering honors
- UVa
- Emory (Scholars Program)</p>

<p>UNWEIGHTED GPA:
- 4.1</p>

<p>AP/HONORS:
- Freshman: (All Honors, All As)
- Sophomore (see above)
- Junior (see above)
- Senior (AP Art History, AP Calc BC, AP Studio Art, Honors Physics II, Honors English, Honors Religious Studies, Honors Economics, Honors World Cinema; All As) (Also worth noting that my school doesn't allow students to take more than 3 AP courses per year)</p>

<p>AP SCORES:
- 5 on AP English Lang
- Taking this year: Calc BC, Art History, Physics, and submitting AP art porfolio</p>

<p>TEST SCORES/OTHER:
- High School is small, competitive, private, college prep, DOES NOT RANK
- SAT first take: 2170, SAT second take: 2140, SAT Superscore: 2240
- SAT IIs: Math 2: 770, Lit. 700</p>

<p>ECs:
- Volleyball varsity 3 years
- Club Volleyball 5 years (eight years total on volleyball; no overlap there)
- Volunteering for Mobile Loaves and Fishes (senior)
- Tutored at an elementary school (soph)
- Writing Center Consultant (senior)
- Girl Scout Troop Assistant Leader (senior)
- Latin Club (3 years - class rep)
- Young Repubs (4 years)
- Environmental Club (fresh; cornerstone member; it died after a year, lack of student involvement)
- Harry Potter Club (senior; cornerstone member; treasurer; largest club in school history)
- Improv Club, Origami Club, Fashion Club, etc and other filler clubs
- Cultural Immersion trip to France for 2 weeks last summer (junior/senior)</p>

<p>AWARDS/MISC.:
- National Merit Semi-Finalist
- National Latin Honor Society for all 3 years in latin
- Perfect score on National Latin Exam (fresh)
- Maxima Cum Laude on NLE (junior and senior year; just below perfect score)
- Various other latin awards
- Tons of school awards for art and english and the like
- Not to toot my own horn, but my essays are amazing and I've spent a ton of time on them for each of these colleges. Writing effective, interesting essays has always been a talent of mine (thus my English awards, boom).
- Recs are amazing (Counselor knows me really well, wrote a very personal recommendation for me; Two teacher recs are also very good and very personalized; one math, one art history)</p>

<p>DEMOGRAPHICS:
- Gender: Female
- Ethnicity: White
- State: Texas
- Parents went to college</p>

<p>Does my being a female interested in engineering affect my chances?</p>

<p>EDIT: I added my SAT IIs. I forgot about those.</p>

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<p>More about the Essays:

  • Common app essay (Topic of your choice) was about how little my facebook page said about me and how I wish it would tell who I really was. Used sentences that you commonly see on facebook “So and so likes blah blah” and so forth to prove my point about how very impersonal facebook is.
  • Why Brown Essay: about my somewhat scattered selection of senior courses and how they compare to my peers’ incredibly narrow fields of study. Went on to explain how I feel like studying multiple topics that I like is better than studying a really specific set of things that end up limiting your mind and how Brown would be good for me. Etc etc.
  • Why your major: I talked about my fascination with what makes buildings stand and how under-appreciated engineers and how that always fascinated me. Talked about how I wanted to move the world of structures forward.
  • Intellectual experience that inspired me: In physics class, saw two boys playing Halo instead of paying attention to our (truly) amazing teacher–likely the best teacher in the entire school. Made me think about opportunities that we miss. Discussed how everyone does it, (gave examples). Talked about how ever since then I’ve been taking more chances, branching out, seizing opportunities. Then closed it with talking about how I will determine how much I get out of my college career.
  • Engineering essays: mostly talked about my ability to problem solve. Provided interesting stories and narratives and tied them into a thesis.</p>
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<ul>
<li>Brown-mid reach</li>
<li>Rice-low reach</li>
<li>Cornell-mid reach</li>
<li>Northwestern-low reach/high match</li>
<li>UVa-high match</li>
<li>Emory-high match (not sure about Scholars program)</li>
</ul>

<p>Good luck :)</p>

<p>Chance back please!</p>

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<p>Thank you for your input! I will chance back.</p>

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<p>I mostly agree with big dreamer</p>

<ul>
<li>Brown-mid reach</li>
<li>Rice-low reach/HIGH MATCH</li>
<li>Cornell-mid reach</li>
<li>Northwestern-low reach/high match</li>
<li>UVa-MATCH/high match (I’d feel most confident about this one)</li>
<li>Emory-high match (not sure about Scholars program)</li>
</ul>

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