<p>School: Private (very good school…everyone goes to college, many to ivies)</p>
<p>Classes: I take almost all of the most rigorous classes at my school</p>
<p>GPA: 3.72 UW, 4.5 W (1 extra point for Honors/AP classes)</p>
<p>Test Scores: ACT 33, Math 2 SAT II 770, World History SAT II 790.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: On the board of my temple, president of youth group chapter, soccer (JV 2 years and Varsity for 2 years), Award-Winning Spanish Literary Magazine, Math Team, Debate Team, accepted to several photography competitions, Summer Internship at the National Institute of Health (NIH), 80+ hours community service.</p>
<p>ED will probably help bc of your legacy, I would say you will probably get in if you can pull out some amazing essays and recs (as long as a 3.72 is top 5%ish at your school, whether or not they actually rank) Good Luck!</p>
<p>You are looking pretty good. Nice ECs, solid test scores, GPA, while not amazing, is decent. I think you have a very excellent shot ED, probably in. Good luck! Oh, and make sure you are in the top 5-50 percent of your class. :)</p>
<p>Being a legacy and applying ED is NOT a guaranteed admission. I know of double legacy applicants with excellent records who did not get in ED. Overall, 65% of legacy applicants do not get accepted into Brown. </p>
<p>Dcu might get in. Just don’t assume it’s a given, because it’s not.</p>
<p>True. Legacy does not equate to admittance. Although I believe the 35% legacy admittance is for either RD or the combined cycles, not for ED alone. </p>
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<p>Now you’re just being delusional. Brown is a match for tons of academically capable seniors. If you’re trying to say that a 4.0/2400/legacy is not guaranteed a spot, say that. However, there’s quite a difference between a school being a guarentee and a match.</p>
<p>I believe Brown is a match for the OP given his solid grades, test scores, ECs and legacy status combined with the Early Decision cycle. One of the primary factors Brown considers is interest and fit. And ED sends a pretty good signal about that already. I’m guessing (looking at your ECs) that you’ll be able to communicate capably your interest in and reasons for going to Brown. Overall, better shot than most, though bear in mind some of the above caveats - nothing is guaranteed.</p>
<p>srrinath, I am not delusional and I don’t appreciate being called so. I have been interviewing students for Brown for more than 30 years, have numerous friends who have been interviewing for 30+ years, and have other experiences I won’t go into here to protect my identity. I also have plenty of alumni friends whose highly qualified kids have been denied admission.</p>
<p>You are a 17/18 year old high school student from India/Singapore.</p>
<p>Look, I apologize for calling you delusional, that was just rude on my part. </p>
<p>But we’ll have to agree to disagree on whether Brown is a match for many qualified students. Of course it could be that we don’t agree on what exactly being a ‘match’ means, but certainly there exist students who’ve consistently gotten good grades, good test scores, stayed committed to their extracurriculars, get good recs and write good essays. If my GPA didn’t look as horrendous as it presently does (for reasons that I won’t reexplain here) I’d go so far as to say that I’m a match for Brown. </p>
<p>And on another note, especially since you’ve been a Brown interviewer for 30 years, it seems a bit odd that you’re saying that being extremely wealthy or a celebrity like Emma Watson is going to put you in a favorable place with Brown. Granted, that might have an element of truth in it but its certainly no grounds to dismiss otherwise capable applicants as reaches simply because they’re not Emma Watson or the scion of Bill Gates.</p>
<p>This depends on what match means. At no point was I told “You’ll definitely get into Brown” by anyone credible (at least until I got the acceptance letter). I was told, however, that I had a very solid chance. Did this make it a match? In my opinion, no. No college counselor at my school would have told someone they were guaranteed to get into Brown, regardless of grades, other circumstances, etc. Because you really don’t know for sure. 2400/perfect GPA/amazing focused ECs/legacy/URM and so on…they could be rejected too. Who really knows exactly what Brown wants? Brown may see something that gives them a smidgen of doubt, and that’s it. But if “match” means a decent chance of admission, then Brown can be a match for the very top students.</p>
<p>You might want to read “The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges – and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates” by Dan Golden. </p>
<p>I define a match as a school where your chance of being accepted is about 50%. </p>
<p>I think students should apply to reach schools, they should be optimistic and they should have hope. But recognize when a school is a reach. Why assure someone a school is a match and get their hopes up unnecessarily?</p>