Chance me, please. It would be your good deed of the day, and I'll chance back

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<p>So, I’d really appreciate it if you guys chanced me down here…I’m an applicant for the class of 2014, and I am posting under an alias because I had privacy issues posting a chance thread with my actual username. Hit me with a PM if you think you recognize who I am, please don’t post it as a reply.</p>

<p>Anyway, here goes:</p>

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<li>I’m an international student from India. I do not require financial aid.</li>
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<p>THE NUMBERS (aka what everyone else has)</p>

<p>I’m topping my class right now, but we don’t officially calculate a class rank. So my transcript is gonna say ‘top 10%’, but my recommendations will definitely say that I’m at the top of my class.</p>

<p>2380 in the SAT. 770 in Math Level 2 (taking bio and chem in May)</p>

<p>THE EXTRACURRICULARS (sadly, finding a cure for cancer isn’t amongst these)</p>

<p>*State- and national-level tennis</p>

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<li>national ranking of 300</li>
<li>state ranking of 10</li>
<li>Varsity tennis is non-existent out here. However, my school conducts an annual tennis tournament in which all the tennis players in my school (boys and girls) participate. I have won that tournament for the past 5 years. So…err…if there was a varsity tennis team, I would probably be captain. But that’s conjencture…pardon my ramblings, please</li>
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<p>*Varsity basketball, soccer and field hockey</p>

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<li>captain of hockey team</li>
<li>vice captain of basketball team</li>
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<p>*Summer research internship at a biotechnology lab at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras</p>

<p>*Environmental activism</p>

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<li><p>one of five founding members of my school’s ‘Green Brigade’ (a team of environmentally conscious students which strives to promote environmentalism and sustainability on campus)</p></li>
<li><p>joint leader of a team of 100 students which won the Chennai segment of an international coastal cleanup contest in 2007 by removing all the garbage from one half of a beach in the city; we received Rs. 10,000 as prize money (2000 students - from both schools and colleges - participated in all)</p></li>
<li><p>leader of a team of 25 students from my school which participated in a voluntary coastal cleanup program organized by environmentalists within the city in 2008</p></li>
<li><p>leader of a team of 8 students that won Rs. 500,000 in the 2007 ‘Green-I contest’, a national-level contest which required schools to come up with innovative ideas to make their campus more eco-friendly. As winners of this contest, we were able to attend the 2007 edition of the International Green Building Congress being held at Chennai and present our ideas in front of all the experts attending the conference (41 schools from across the nation participated, and 11 were shortlisted for the final).</p></li>
<li><p>leader of a team of 10 students that made a documentary on the a wetland on the outskirts of my city that is being utilized as a garbage dump for all the waste generated in the city. The documentary highlighted the numerous adverse effects this dumping has on the environment and the city as a whole, and steps that can be taken to improve the situation. We screened it in various schools across the city to raise awareness on this issue.</p></li>
<li><p>winner (from about 75 contestants) of a state-level quiz on ‘Climate Change and its Impact on Society’ conducted by IIT-Madras</p></li>
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<p>*Model UN - one of the loves of my life. I have participated in 7 conferences since the 9th grade, and won 3 best delegate awards. Last year, I was one of the heads of the panel that organized my school’s MUN which had about 250 delegates from across the country take part (I am also on the panel for this year’s conference, which promises to be bigger and better). I also chaired a committee during this conference.</p>

<p>*Student government

  • I am one of four students who were elected as house captains (student body leaders). This is a very prestigious position in my school, and we four captains practically run the various intra-school activities (organize the events, arrange for judges, participate in all the events). It helps that my house (a team of sorts) is on song to clinch this year’s overall championship cup .</p>

<p>Thanks in advance :).</p>

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<p>I plan on applying ED, btw</p>

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<p>ur a dick 10 charrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr</p>

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<p>unfortunately, you’ll be deferred from the ed pool and then waitlisted rd. if only your academic qualifications weren’t so meager and/or if you had found a cure to cancer during your extracurricular time, you might, JUST MIGHT have had a better shot. </p>

<p>i hope brown isn’t your first choice.</p>

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<p>^ could not agree more. Cant believe you didn’t know that brown requires a mid year report, sat score report, and AT LEAST one cure of a pandemic disease.</p>

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<p>Guys come on, you dont need to cure diseases!! Watchingoscars, have you formed your own country? Maybe form your own group of states and try to secede, that will give you a ton of recognition!</p>

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<p>to be honest
i hope u dotn apply to brown ed, because ull get in easily</p>

<p>i agree with tlowell, u shuld be focusing on more prestigious schools like harvard
and esp i wuldnt apply ED because that limits your options to one school, which ud definitely get into</p>

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<p>Snarky replies are appreciated ;)</p>

<p>brown14: it isn’t all about prestige. I love Brown and think it’s an awesome fit for me, that’s why I’m gonna do ED.</p>

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<p>brown14, prestige isn’t everything. I mean there are people who have graduated from schools like Cal State Long Beach and become more successful than people who have gone to ivys. It’s what you do that makes you, not where you go.</p>

<p>Watchingoscars, you have probably heard this a million times, but these chance threads are pointless. You seem like a strong applicant, but schools like Brown can be ridiculously random with admissions so no one can really give you a percentage(and if someone does, they are BSing). If you really like brown, apply ED and hope that you get in. GL :)</p>

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<p>Thanks mate, good luck to you as well :)</p>

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<p>Only a 2380? The adcom will laugh and toss your application in the fire. Look forward to a nice rejection letter, if they even decide to bother.</p>

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<p>LOL, like the scarcasm on this thread…</p>

<p>honestly your chances are good, if you apply ed, and don’t require any FA, you are in, just make sure you write good essays and get good recommendations…good luck…</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t say anything is a safe bet, but you have a lot going for you, and I would be surprised if you didn’t get in. But, then again, some other posters on here with similarly amazing stats have been rejected… so you just never know.
Really though, do make your essays interesting & heartfelt, because Brown especially seems to value essays.</p>

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<p>I love the sarcasm as well. I’m often one of it’s propagators :wink:
But I do appreciate the straightforward replies too. Thank you all, even the snarky ones :p.</p>

<p>Yeah, I’ve heard that Brown tends to value the essays a lot. Over the summer I’m gonna brainstorm for something that screams ME, and try expand on that.</p>

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<p>I love the sarcasm as well. I’m often one of it’s propagators :wink:
But I do appreciate the straightforward replies too. Thank you all, even the snarky ones :p.</p>

<p>Yeah, I’ve heard that Brown tends to value the essays a lot. Over the summer I’m gonna brainstorm for something that screams ME, and try expand on that.</p>

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<p>i’m on my lollerskates</p>

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<p>Bump this baby up</p>

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<p>write a ba essay and you’re in. they put a lot of weight on what you write, how you think, and your ability to convey, articulate and express yourself.</p>

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<p>Look, the reality is that any school with low acceptance rates is considered a “reach” school by everyone. You have great stats. Keep up the good work and you will be admitted to a fantastic school no matter what. You have as good a chance as anyone else who will be applying ED or RD for that matter. </p>

<p>fyi…one of my best friends was told by a coach (Harvard) that he would “put in a good word with admissions” and they REALLY wanted her, she was valedictorian/NMF/AP Scholar w/D, Private competitive school: complete rejection and she gave up applying ED/EA to other schools at his request. She got into a top 5 school and is very happy but nothing is a sure thing anywhere unless you have a signed piece of paper.</p>

<p>Good luck though…Brown is a great school! :)</p>

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<p>Your chances are quite good, but know that your chance of getting in ED is virtually the same as getting in RD. The difference in admission rates is almost entirely recruited athletes/super-strong applicants that would have gotten in anyway.</p>