Chance me for Brown (Wow literally two days before it haha)

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<p>Okay I guess the anxiety got to me… could you guys chance me for Brown? Thank you!</p>

<p>Info:
Senior, Class of 2014
Attend a public high school of more than 2500 kids (600+ in my senior class)
Permanent Resident of U.S.</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA:
Unweighted: 4.00/4.00 at the time of application (I received one A- in English in my first semester of senior year)
Weighted: No clue, 4.something
Rank: 4/626 (Top 1%)</p>

<p>ACT: 34 (35 English, 35 Math, 31 Reading, 34 Science, 12 on Writing) One sitting, only took it once
SAT: None
APs: AP Physics B (4), AP Biology (3), AP Calculus AB (5), AP Language and Comp (5), AP US History (4), AP World History (5)
Senior year Courseload: AP Computer Science, AP Chemistry, AP Music Theory, AP Literature, AP Statistics, Philosophy
IBs: None, school doesn’t offer haha
SAT II’s:
Math II- 800
Physics- 740
I just took two cause most schools except schools like Georgetown only requires two… and I only took the ACT and not the SAT and ACT doesn’t really require SAT IIs but I still took it cause it looks better, i think haha</p>

<p>Activities:
-Co-President of Academic Coaches, a peer-to-peer tutoring club. Level 10 Achievement (100 hours of tutoring)
-Editor-in-Chief of the School newspaper club. We brought back the school newspaper after it has been inactive for over 4 years, and I wrote about it in my essay, so that might be good.
-Treasurer of the Debate Club (Placed 5th in State for Oratory, Triple Ruby member in NFL)
-Piano (Placed 4th in State in the Piano category, volunteer pianist at a retirement center every Sunday. 2nd place in Washington Youth Music Competition)
-Marching band member for 2 years (not really significant)
-Voted Homecoming Court and Student of the Month <---- I’m not sure but I included those in my additional info section in common app, is that okay? They chose 10 seniors from 626 people</p>

<p>Job:
Work at a Frozen Yogurt Store twice a week
Private Tutoring for two students</p>

<p>Summer: Sophomore year I worked as a research intern for an anesthesiology lab and learned a lot about working with equipment. I think this was more of a learning phase than actually doing stuff.
Junior year I worked as a research scientist at a pharmacology lab where I actually conducted my own experiments and was responsible for a significant portion of the publication the lab was working on. When the paper is published, I will be credited as one of the co-authors (it has not been published yet, and I don’t think it will for a while). I’m also on the lab website as one of the research members.</p>

<p>Miscellaneous activities:
I self-published a book on Amazon from a blog that I have been working on since my freshman year. It’s 230 pages, and it deals with influential people and their turning points.</p>

<p>I published 16 articles online through a student-journalism program called jstudentboard.com. One of my articles was featured in a dutch tourism website to promote Disneyland-Paris (I wrote an article about our marching band going to Paris and they wanted to use it haha)</p>

<p>Recommenders: English and Math teacher for rec letter. Pretty sure they were alright, don’t really know cause I haven’t read it.
For additional recommenders, I asked my research mentor and my principal. Principal’s recommendation was awesome, not sure about research mentor’s but shouldn’t be bad or anything since we spent the whole summer together).</p>

<p>Asian Male
Hook: none
Major: Neuroscience and Music
Applied for Financial Aid</p>

<p>And this is just me being curious but is there a standard guideline for college admission process or is it really arbitrary like what people say? I have been accepted into Grinnell, Bowdoin, Carleton, and Middlebury, but I have been waitlisted to U Chicago and Pomona. Should I not be too concerned about it?</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>You’ve already been accepted to some excellent schools. College admissions can be completely arbitrary. All the worry in the world isn’t going to change your outcome for Brown, and no one here will be able to tell you with any degree of certainty if you will be accepted. Relax. Take a deep breath. And wait a little longer.</p>

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<p>You shouldn’t be concerned about this anymore because you already know that you’re going to go to a great school next year. Grinnell, Bowdoin, Carleton, and Middlebury are all very very good schools. Congratulations. You should be very excited and proud of these acceptances and start thinking about how to decide which of these to attend.</p>

<p>(To answer your question, more for younger students who might read this: there is no “standard guideline for college admission,” whatever that means. It’s not totally arbitrary, but its not predictable. There are so many factors that go into every college’s decisions – geography, majors, sports, legacy, music, art, on and on and on – that a student who is attractive to one school may not be attractive to another. That’s why having a diverse and balanced college list is so important.)</p>

<p>(And please don’t bump this if it’s still on the front page. It’s just irritating.)</p>

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<p>You’re right–arbitrary isn’t the right word. But it can seem that way. A kid with 2300 SATs and a 4.0 might get waitlisted while a kid with a 1900 and s 3.5 GPA is accepted–all because the college orchestra needed an accomplished oboist. Or someone who excels at breaststroke. Or someone from South Dakota. </p>

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<p>And those decisions make perfect sense to the admissions office, if not to the outsiders who don’t see the whole picture.</p>

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<p>@arcadia I’m really hoping and praying that you’re right about needing someone from South Dakota… ;)</p>