Chance me for Brown RD 2024?

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Hi everyone, i really appreciate anyone that responds to this. I know no once can predict the actual decision, but any insight would be helpful as I am getting mixed responses.

Demographic:
Location: Southeastern PA, public high school (class of 294 people)
Race/gender: Indian Male
Major: Neuroscience, minor in comp sci (pre-health)

Stats:
SAT: 1500 (800 M, 700 R/W)
SAT Subject Tests: Will take Bio M, Math 2, and Chem in August.
Unweighted GPA: Around 3.97 (no Bs, all As except 2 A-)
Class Rank/Percentile: 8/294 (top 3%)
Courses/APs: Taken the highest level for all, so far 7 APs: AP Euro (5), AP Psych (5), AP Calc AB (5), AP Lang (5), APUSH (5), AP Physics 1 (4), AP Chemistry (4)
Upcoming course load: AP Physics C, AP Stat, AP Calc BC, AP Gov, AP Lang, AP Bio

Extracurriculars/Summer Activites:
Class Treasurer/Student Government (2 years)
Academic Competition Team (3 years)
Science Olympiad (Co-Captain) (4 years)
Junior Varsity and Varsity Tennis (4 years)
Math Club (Secretary) (4 years)
Club USTA Tennis (6 years)
Piano (6 years)
Summer Biology Research with professor at local university (200+ hours)
Boeing High School Scholars Internship
National Honor Society
Spanish National Honor Society

Volunteering/Community Service:
Volunteering Helping Veterans with Technology at VA: 80+ hours
Volunteering helping students learn math and reading at a Kumon: 90+ hours

Awards:
9+ Science Olympiad Medals at regional and invitational level (faced some super good nationally ranked teams)
4 years Honor Roll
First Place in local School Coding Competition
AP Scholar With Distinction (school did’t let me take more than 2 APs until junior year)
Will be Nationally Merit Commended
USTA Travel Team Awards

Other interested schools (opinions on these would be helpful too thanks!) : Pitt, Penn State, UMD, Drexel, Boston U, Emory, UVa, University of Michigan, Brown, UPenn, Dartmouth, Northeastern, UCLA , University of Rochester, Wake Forest (maybe), Northwestern

PS: Thank you for taking the time out to respond, any insight on how to strengthen my application/chancing would be greatly appreciated, thanks !!!

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You’re in a really tough demographic, Asian male STEM, I’d put your chances around 2-3%, so if Brown is your first choice, apply ED and EA to PSU, Michigan. Your hs/gc should have more information on how students like you have done wrt admissions. Here in the bay area for your profile, most get in to Brown via ED, but to be fair I only know a couple over last few years so it’s not a lot of data. If Brown in not your first choice, then you may have a slightly better shot at a place like Penn, and pretty good chances at places like BU, Northeastern, Drexel, Pitt, Rochester.

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theloniusmonk,

Appreciate the advice, but probably won’t ed because I am trying to save money for my brother who will also be going to college a year after me and my own grad school expenses without burdening my parents. I definitely understand now that my chances are not great, but I’m still going to put my best effort into my essays and hope I have some luck on my side :). Good luck to you too with your college apps if you are a senior as well!

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I meant to say that my chances are NOT great sorry lol