Chance me at brown?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>Hi, I’m going to be a senior this year at a very competitive and renowned high school near Chicago. Any chances would be much appreciated!</p>

<p>White female
top 10%, decile ranking in a class of 1020 people
GPA- 3.78 UW/4.93 W (choosing to send weighted)
ACT- 32 (retaking and hoping for a 33)
SAT II- Literature: 740, going to take Bio and hoping for 750+
AP Exams- Lang+Comp: 5, US Gov’t and Politics: 5, Comparative Gov’t and Politics: 5</p>

<p>won the National Spanish Exam award as a freshman.
I have an excellent recommendation from the teacher who designed the Illinois AP English curriculum.</p>

<p>EC’s
Member of Military History Club (9,10,11)
President of Military History Club (11)
4-H Member (9,10,11)
4-H Club President (11)
Cameraman at local public access TV show “Public Affairs”: (9,10,11)
ICRE Social Service Club: (9)
Social service work at an HIV clinic in Malawi: (11)</p>

<p>Writing is my passion and I’m hoping to major in something literature related. I’m also planning on applying to Columbia, Penn, Tufts, UVA, Georgetown, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and University of Chicago (where my mom is a professor)</p>

<p>If you know anything about those schools as well, please let me know. </p>

<p>Thanks so much! I’ll offer to chance back, but I’m definitely not an authority on admissions :p</p>

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<p>Your mom might pull you into Chicago, but other than that possibility you have no safeties or matches on that list, at all. Don’t apply to all reaches, no matter how good your stats are.</p>

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<p>Agreed with above.</p>

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<p>I’d say Tufts, UVA, Georgetown, and Johns Hopkins are all matches</p>

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<p>No. Absolutely not. Tufts and Johns Hopkins have acceptance rates below 30%, Georgetown’s is below 20%, and UVA for out-of-state is also in that range. They are all reaches.</p>

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<p>stats
5’10 awkward male
32 act
800s on math 2c and chemistry
5s on ab calc and chemistry
weighted gpa 4.4 unweighted 3.2
I am simultaneously in the top and bottom half of my class
I am a spectacular debater(it’s true) I compete at the top tier of the national circuit.
I teach science to middle school and high school students as a science Olympiad coach for a competitive middle school and as a teaching assistant for my first year chemistry teacher.</p>

<p>I am looking at UC Berkeley, Northwestern, Wash U in st. louis, Columbia, Brown, and Georgetown</p>

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<p>take advantage of your honesty (“awkward male”) and strengths and put it powerfully in a well written essay. They don’t need well balanced people just a well balanced class!</p>