<p>Hello, my name is Tyler. I love Brown and really hope I get in. Thanks for your feedback.</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 Unweighted
4.1 Weighted (school has weird weighting policy grades are super deflated, I am taking the most rigorous course load)
Rank: 1 of 740
Public High School
Hispanic (1/4 Mexican 1/2 Irish 1/4 mixture of a whole bunch of stuff. I checked off yes Hispanic on common app and then put Caucasian in the other category becuase I am white but I am 1/4 Hispanic)
ACT: 33 (34 if super scored don't know if brown does that)
Schedule: 10th
Honors Chem
ACC Algebra II
Spanish III
AP History (got a 4 on the exam)
English 10
Health
Drawing Fundamentals (got thrown in I hate art lol)</p>
<p>11th
AP Government (got a 5)
English 11
Organic Chem
Analytical Chem
Bio II
Econ
ACC Trig
Spanish IV</p>
<p>12th grade schedule
AP Calc AB (scheduling conflict prevented me from taking BC but still going to take BC test)
AP Bio
AP Chem
AP Spanish (spanish V)
English 12
AP Comparative Government (Helped start the class, first year it is running at my school)
Sociology</p>
<p>Extra Curricular</p>
<p>Science Olympiad
Driven Club (christian club)
Spanish Club (President)
Spanish Honors Society
NHS (board of directors)
Varsity Tennis (team spirit award, JV co captain)
Organized Pro Life T-shirt Day
Co founder and Co President of JSA chapter at my school (first in the state)</p>
<p>Essays
Wrote the common app one about coming from underprivileged family and the problems I faced but still managed to reach the top of my class. </p>
<p>For the supplement I wrote about how I self studied for the AP Calc test and got a 5 per my teachers advice.</p>
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<li>Also this year my ACC trig teacher asked me to take the AB calc test, he has never asked anyone else to do this before so I was honored. I self studied and he sent me down to the calc room before the exam. I got a 5 on the test.*</li>
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<p>** My Trig and Gov teachers will give me amazing recs as will my counselor**</p>
<p>I come from an extremely low income family (Less than 10000 a year.) My parents are divorced and I live with my mom. I am a first generation college attendee.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your help. I know these can be annoying. Please be brutally honest</p>
<p>is that gpa weighted or unweighted, of its unweighted u might stand a chance but remember its brown, there are plenty of the best students in the country they reject. u are not in for sure but u have a great shot. good luck!</p>
<p>Even without your URM status, I’d say that you would have a very very good shot. However, with it, I’m sure that you’ll get in (at the very least, you’ll get deferred). Not only do you have high test scores and high grades, but you seem to have shown tons of initiative even with the extenuating circumstances in your life. Even if, by some odd chance, you don’t get in, you have a lot to be proud of my friend.</p>
<p>I don’t understand your second essay topic, if you haven’t finished AB or taken the BC exam yet, but its a mid-low reach for you, which is the best it can be for anyone except the kids that win intel and crazy stuff like that.
Nothing detracts from you, so you’ll be competitive, but not for sure in.</p>
<p>my trig teacher asked my if I wanted to take the AB exam last year and I said yes so I self studied and went down to the calc room and I got a five. My essay is about the experience and academic challenge. I had a schedule conflict this year so I could not take BC (seniors have a choice of taking AB or BC) but I am still going to take the BC test.</p>
<p>You sound stupid/conceited. Also, I know tons of people who love to brag about how they had a crappy life. I mean its all I can talk about apparently seeing how conceited I am. Seriously what kind of reaction did you think you were going to get with those comments? I did say be brutally honest but you can still have some tact about it.</p>
<p>Wrote the common app one about coming from underprivileged family and the problems I faced but still managed to reach the top of my class. Wrote the common app one about coming from underprivileged family and the problems I faced but still managed to reach the top of my class. -Cool that’s great for you. I don’t think you need an essay to explain something they see from your rank/family income/zip code and a few other factors.</p>
<p>For the supplement I wrote about how I self studied for the AP Calc test and got a 5 per my teachers advice.</p>
<p>For the supplement I wrote about how I self studied for the AP Calc test and got a 5 per my teachers advice. -Is this necessary? 50% of people get 5s. I don’t think it warrents an essay.</p>
<p>they can see that you self studied calc ap if its not in your schedule</p>
<p>Seeing as how the common app essay is supposed to be a PERSONAL STATEMENT and let the admissions office know more about me I think that the essay was very appropriate seeing as how my upbringing has made me the person I am today.</p>
<p>Also, the supplement essay was about an academic challenge and I would say self studying for the Calculus test was a challenge and I learned a lot about myself through the experience.</p>
<p>Clearly you don’t understand what college essays are for. What would you propose I write seeing as how my ideas are so dumb?</p>
<p>Ok- I know a valedictorian who had a full IB load and 2200s SAT who got rejected by brown last year… But he did not apply ED.</p>
<p>If you can get the underrepresented minority status your chances would improve a lot…</p>
<p>Brown got a record amount of applicants last year so it is a crap shoot trying to get in unfortunately… I might give you a 30-40% chance? That isn’t that bad when you consider the actual acceptance rate.</p>
<p>in response to other poster…</p>
<p>To judge a essay by its topic is absurd. It certainly has the potential to be conceited, but I don’t see why you would write it that way…</p>
<p>Hey! i read over your stuff. you seem well-qualified. im no racist, but your races in my opinion increases your chances by almost 2. i would have originally given you 30% to get in, but now i’d say around 60% chance of acceptance.</p>