Chance me for Brown please?

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<p>ACT: 35</p>

<p>SAT II: US History (800), BiologyM(790), World History (800), Chemistry (790), Math Lvl 2 (800), French (760)</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.99</p>

<p>Rank: top 3-5%</p>

<p>AP: US History (5), World History (5), Chemistry (5), English Lang (5), Psychology (Self-study 5), Enviro (Self-study 5), Macro/Micro (Self-Study 4), Stats (Self-study 4)</p>

<p>Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP French, AP Calc BC, AP Physics, AP Govt, Band</p>

<p>Major Awards: National Merit Semi-finalist, National AP Scholar</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Hospital Volunteer: 250 hrs</p>

<p>Reading Program: Co-found a reading program for elementary school kids that initiated a foundation for language arts in 4th-6th graders</p>

<p>Debate: Captain, Nationally Qualified for NFL, State Novice Champion, 3rd place at State, Letters</p>

<p>Student Congress: Captain, Letters</p>

<p>Speech: Captain, Nationally Qualified for NFL, 3rd place at State, Letters</p>

<p>NHS: Vice President</p>

<p>Concert Band: Vice President, Trumpet Section Leader, Letters</p>

<p>Jazz Ensemble: Auditioned</p>

<p>Pep Band: Letter</p>

<p>Track and Field: JV Conference Champion, Letter</p>

<p>Expecting my essays and recommendations to be great from both teachers and counselors.</p>

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<p>I think you know you are a very well qualified student. Unfortunately though, since most applicants to Brown will also be well qualified, your acceptance will hinge on the quality of your essays and the reasons you feel Brown is the right place for you. My concern for your application is that since you are so involved with so many activities, the admissions officers will interpret that as evidence that you don’t have well-defined interests or passions. However, if you shed lots of positive light on all your involvement in your essays, you obviously have a very good shot.</p>

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<p>Well I focus my passions around a few key things:</p>

<p>1) Forensics. (Debate/speech/congress)
2) Musical. (Concert/jazz/pep)
3) Volunteer Work (Hospital because I want to be a doctor and I truly learned how a hospital works) – Reading Program (Some friends and I noticed that a major problem in high schoolers is that they kind of suck at reading - at least at my school so we started the program to solve the problem from the ground up - elementary school kids.).
4) Track and Field to get exercise</p>

<p>So as you can see – I have a very specific reason to why I do what I do. I love forensics and playing my trumpet. </p>

<p>The reasoning behind my self-study of particularly those classes is because enviro/psych were chosen because of my love of the human body/biotechnology. Statistics was chosen because I do my own evidence in debate so it really came in handy. Macro/micro were chosen because a lot of speeches on speech are economic-related – the classes greatly improved my knowledge for those speeches. </p>

<p>How would I be able to show a positive light on this?</p>