Hello! I am a senior from a really small town in SoCal. I applied Early Decision to Brown University, and am just curious what others may hav with ought s about my chances! I appreciate all input.
Stats:
•4.17 weighted GPA, 3.98 Unweighted
•Go to a super small school so there’s not a lot of AP classes offered.
•Took APUSH junior year and got a 5 on the test.
•Taking AP Stats, AP Lit, and AP Spanish this year
Note: I would be pursuing an International Relations major at Brown, not a STEM major
ECs:
• In School: 4 years of Student Government (with officer positions for 3 years), 4 years of “Friends of **HS Club” 4 years in Politics Club (with being an officer for 2), 3 years of Poetry Club 2 years of Performing Arts Club, Football Team Manager (4 years),
•Out of School: 8 years of vocal study and 3 years of participation iGoing on 3 years as a hostess/server at local restaurant, Volunteer work as a Middle School Classroom Volunteer for 3 years, 1 year as a tutor for younger kids.
Additional Info: I have done a lot of International Travel, and at my school I founded a Club to help with my school’s problems (but Covid/ Online School has put it on pause so it hasn’t started to meet). Sang as part of a national honors choir at Carnegie Hall in my junior year.
Topic of essay: Wrote about my body image for personal essay
Thank you so much in advance! I’m looking forward to hearing from anybody!
If you’ve already applied ED, there’s not much point in chancing you, as your decision isn’t going to change either way. Just make sure to have your RD applications ready to submit, and hope for the best!
FYI, 170 in a class might be on the smaller side but isn’t super small… There were 470 in my HS class, but I encountered people at Brown coming from classes anywhere in the 30 to 1000 range. Your stats look good. Applying from a smaller rural school is a plus, and Brown accounts for there not always (or even usually) being the same variety of AP courses etc at the smaller high schools. So since you asked, yes, you appear to be a competitive applicant. What you don’t have going for you is the reality that not many of even the competitive applicants are admitted. because that’s how it goes in the world of single-digit admit rates. But somebody has to “get lucky”, so might as well be you!
honestly, you have a really good chance! but I feel like you participate in way too much clubs. Like I’m in a school where there are over a 100 clubs and its so easy to be an officer/start your own club that there’s really no merit to it. Is that the way it is for your school too? If so, colleges don’t really want to see that you have that many leadership positions but rather contributed a lot to 1 or 2 clubs…
