US Citizen
Texas
College Preparatory School
Female/African American
First generation / First born American
Major: media
UW3.79 W4.03 No Rank SAT 1400
7/12 Offered
Awards:
Published photographer
National recognition school
Lots of other film/photography related awards
Lots of videography/photography related community service and TEDx talks
Strong personal statement and supplements
Is it possible??
7/12 APS taken
7/7 honors taken
You gotta give us more specific descriptions of your extracurriculars. Based on stats, it’s looking pretty rough. I’m curious, how did you take 7 APs + 7 Honors and your UW is ~3.8 but your Weighted is 4.03?
Also: you shouldn’t submit your SAT because that would reflect badly (way below Brown’s avg score).
Your #s give you little chance. That said, you are a URM and first gen and then can help. Brown lags vs. others in diversity based on what I read.
If they’re looking to increase diversity, you can have a shot. I hate to say it like that- but that is your chance.
On the merits of GPA/SAT, you have near zero chance.
That said, your stats and extras are sensational and there’s many a great college that will benefit from your presence and I’m sure you’ll do great.
Good luck.
If you have other schools under consideration which are less selective (not to say “easy” – just not impossibly hard) that would be a better use of your one shot for ED admission. At best IMO you would be deferred to RD anyway.
In the context of someplace like Brown, smart/accomplished/“at or near the top in their HS” applicants are the average applicants – at least where I interview. Then there are the exceptional applicants, and a lot of those (most?) aren’t admitted either. 40,000 applicants for 2600 slots (~1700 class size) and things get pretty crazy.
Hi! My school doesn’t weight honors and APs are weighted at .5, so the 2 Bs I had in my honors classes dragged my GPA down.
Yeah my stats are quite low compared to the averages at brown. I’m looking at NYU as well perhaps for EDII or regular decision, would I have a better shot at getting in there?
Better than Brown but unlikely.
Note that NYU doesn’t meet 100% of need.
Thank you I’m hoping to get into NYU and maybe even Georgetown if possible — would I have a shot getting in to those schools?
Only if the URM hook works
Thx for this. I just checked a few sources. I should have said specifically to African American. They’re working to increase the AA population which is why I said perhaps this would give the student a chance (vs if they are Asian etc).
Thx for correcting so I can clarify. It appears AA students make up 6.5% of students. At Harvard, for example, 18% of recent admitted students are black. So if Briwn follows a similar pattern in the future….maybe that’s the in.
Anyway just trying to give the OP a thread of hope that her hook may work.
Thanks
Was not correcting just providing context.
For further ideas, maybe you would benefit from looking into Wesleyan, Oberlin, Skidmore, or Connecticut College?
I disagree with one of the posters above that OP should not submit scores.
In the context of female, African American, and first generation, 1400 is fine. Not a huge positive, but definitely not a negative. I’d submit it it for any school you decide to try for.
Good luck with your applications!
Our son liked his four years at Georgetown (School of Foreign Service). The campus situation reminded me a bit of Brown to the extent that it is situated in a residential area, but next to a city (Providence in the case of Brown – a real city in the case of Georgetown ; )
Your SAT scores are below the mean for Georgetown, but probably still within a standard deviation? I don’t know what sort of offering they have in Data Science, if any. Definitely a lot of opportunities for summer internships in the DC area, if you are doing well academically in something Econ or Government related.
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