<p>I am currently a sophomore. I am part of the math and science club. I am a tournament chess player. Freshman year, I took all honors, doubled up in Bio honors and Chem honors, and took honors Precalculus. I completed freshman year with a 3.51 GPA (4.11 weighted). I am currently taking the last year of math in my high school (Multivariable Calculus), having skipped AP Calculus over the summer. I am also concurrently taking AP Biology and honors Physics. I am going to do track once the season starts. I am in a fiercely competitive high school. I got a 770 on the SAT II Math IC and an 800 on the IIC. I also got 800’s on the SAT 2 Biology, Chemistry, Physics and English Literature tests. I got 5’s on the AP Chemistry, Calculus BC, Physics C, Language Arts, Literature, United States History, and French examinations. I have yet to take the AP Biology exam. I got a 2200 on the SAT and a 32 on the ACT when I took the tests in the 8th grade. However, I retook both in the 10th grade and got a 35 on the ACT and a 2340 on the SAT.Can I get into a good school? What can I do to improve my chances?</p>
<p>…Please tell me you are not being serious. A person with your stats should know that you will OBVIOUSLY get into a good school, whether it is Brown or not. All I can tell you is to get almost all As for the rest of your high school years if you want a better chance at Brown. Add a few more ECs and you are golden. -_-</p>
<p>First of all, it really wasn’t necessary to mention your scores from 8th grade (they have absolutely no impact on your chances). Keep your grades as high as possible, and maintain a high rank, AND remember that admissions isn’t all about academics/test scores. Make sure you pursue your passions, as these will be key to writing college essays.</p>
<p>Statistics suggest that you are smart, yet not brilliant enough to figure out if you have a chance at good colleges? And Brown isn’t all about stats, so this isn’t enough…</p>
<p>I dont like your chances. Brown typically prefers students with lower SAT scores that have mediocre grades in regents level classes. With that being said, admissions is often unpredictable so I’d throw in an app just incase something weird happens.</p>
<p>Try not to come off as braggy in your essay as you did in this post and your chances will improve.</p>
<p>I smell a ■■■■■. Just think about it… Sophomore with a 2340 and in Ap calc BC? How is that possible? How can you “skip” AP calc over the summer, the course load is too large for 3 months even wth 7 extra hours each day! 800s in multiple SAT IIs? 5’s on AP tests by sophomore year? Does this make ANY sense? If this person is real who needs Junior or Senior year? Just get accepted to any Ivy league school now…</p>
<p>RenegadeJ, I’m truly sorry if you don’t believe it, but that’s how it is. I skipped Geometry Honors the summer after 8th grade. That put me in Precalculus. My school has an aberrant course track; students in Precalc go direct to AP BC the year after. It is true that BC is a heavy courseload, but Precalc in my school is modelled such that a good portion of AB is covered. Thus, I only had to do some advanced topics exclusive to BC over the summer. I then passed a school-administered test, and got into multivariable. As for the 2340, I started really early, as you can see from my 8th grade scores. I was doing SAT prep by the time I started middle school. I have a decent mathematical grounding, so the SAT II Maths were easy. My mom is a French teacher, so that made prepping for the AP French easy as well. The other AP’s required a bit of work, but the AP grading curve is fairly generous, so I didn’t really have problems with any of the AP tests. The SAT II’s were a little more difficult to do well in, but I studied for them at the expense of my grades, as you can see by my GPA.</p>
<p>Sorry for doubting you, I was only doing so b/c thete ARE lots of ■■■■■■ on CC that post fake info for no reason.</p>
<p>LOL No worries. I’ve seen a fair share of ■■■■■■■■ myself.</p>
<p>Brown (and the other Ivies) could fill their classes with geeks like you. Stop bragging about your numbers and do something different and interesting that will make you stand out. Oh, by the way, I went to Brown (also have two graduate degrees from Harvard), so I know what I’m talking about.</p>
<p>this is a foolish post by the OP</p>
<p>if you took ap calc over the summer how did you take the ap exam???</p>
<p>I’ve seen AP Calc BC soph. year a few times, that’s doable. If I’d known about summer classes, I could’ve, like my friend, taken trig to get into Precalc Honors freshman and either take AB or BC the following year…
I don’t like the bragging on the numbers…when you write your essays, they’d need to be… like a totally different person almost than the feeling felt from the first post.</p>
<p>I took BC Calc sophomore year and know people who took it freshman year (and one who did so in 8th grade!). It’s the placement of the Physics C and Calc BC AP exams that makes me wonder how genuine this is. Either way, I don’t do chance threads…but it’s not taking Multi as a sophomore that makes me wary.</p>
<p>It is definitely possible to take AP Calc BC in 9th grade (know someone that did)
it might be a little weary, from what this thread sounds like, but I won’t proclaim this to be straight-out “■■■■■■■■” at any sense. You have a good chance, but you’ll need to work on EC, like other people stated.</p>
<p>Yea, there’s a girl in my AP Calc AB that’s a Freshman. It’s shocking that she isn’t doing very well in the class since she is apparently very smart. The class isn’t that hard I have an A :-)</p>
<p>I took the AP Exam end of freshman year. I just took the course so I could get credits for it. Also, I needed to take the course in order to take MV calc sophomore year. :)</p>
<p>Try the enter key. It goes a long way in terms of legibility.</p>
<p>Stop studying for tests at the expense of your grades, that will hurt you. Start following your interests, either as electives or EC’s. Make something else about you stand out aside from your desire to take lots of tests.</p>