Brown is my dream school, but I am incredibly nervous about my chances of admission. I’m a 2017-2018 QuestBridge Finalist. Here are my stats:
Ethnicity: White
Gender: F
State: FL (I live on an island of about 800 people)
School: SOOOO small, public, pre-k-12th with only 260. I have 18 students in my 12th grade class.
ACT (Composite, english, math, reading, science, essay): 32, 32, 30, 32, 32, 9/12 (not high, I know)
SAT II: Don’t know yet - will any day now
UW GPA: 4.0/4
W GPA: 4.47/5
Senior Course Load (1st Semester): Intro to Chem (dual enrollment), Discovering the Universe (dual enrollment), General Psychology (dual enrollment), Trigonometry (dual enrollment), high school college prep elective thing called AVID
2nd semester is TBD but I know I am taking Calculus and Economics
Junior Courses: College Comp I and II, College Algebra, PreCalc, Physics Honors online, US History Honors online, US Government, Agritechnology III (certified), Business Software Applications (certified in all four)
Sophomore Courses: Agritechnology II, Administrative Office Technologies (business), English II Honors, Biology Honors, Spanish II online, AP World History, Algebra II
Freshman Courses: Agritechnology I, Computing for College and Career (business), English I Honors, Environmental Science, Spanish I online, HOPE online, Geometry (took Alg I in 8th grade)
EC: basketball, Senior Beta, FFA, FBLA, Student Gov
Awards: 6 FFA state championships, Florida Sunshine State STEM Scholar, Honor Roll, Subject Awards for every high school class taken in 9th-11th grade
I was chosen for the National Society for High School Scholars and as a delegate for the National Future Scientists and Technologists thing but I didn’t have enough money to accept and go.
I want to put out there that I am taking the most rigorous curriculum offered at MY school, it doesn’t even compare to over half of this year’s applicants. My school barely offers any classes past the core curriculum, I’ve taken one of the 2 AP classes it offers, and I am for the majority part full time dual enrollment with a community college 1.5 hours away and online with University of Florida. I am very low income, and I work 22-24 hours a week at a local marina. I am involved in almost every EC offered at the school, disregarding sports. STEM was defunded in 2015, but I was in it during 9th grade. I tutor middle school students during and after school. I have 150 community service hours. I’ve completed art projects for my town. I know that my teacher recs are 9/10-10/10, so is my counselor one. Small school = great teacher student relationships. One of my teacher recs is from a comp professor I had through dual enrollment, we instantly clicked, she wants this just as much as I do, and has a lot of confidence in me. I am a decent writer, and I am working on the common app essays. I’m honestly just nervous that I won’t be considered because my scores are low, and I don’t stand out a lot. No one at my school has applied to Brown, or even an Ivy, before. I am applying for the College Match, but I don’t have a lot of hope - only about 10% of finalists get it. I am anticipating regular action (that’s what we’re automatically considered for if we’re not matched).