<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I applied early decision to Brandeis and I need to anticipate their decision to find out about possibilities for studying abroad in a gap year program.</p>
<p>I applied early with a 2.9 (although I am doing much better this year) =( and a 2020 on my sat’s - a 1400 on the first two sections.</p>
<p>I am an eagle scout, the top ranked debater in the state, involved with DECA (state finalist)(similar to FBLA), do over 300 hours of service per year, hold down a job at dunkin donuts, and attend another high school where I have a transcript with over 30 classes with grades. I go to an extremely extremely competitive high school that is very well respected. I also played football for 3 years. Lastly I have completed the Dale Carnegie course, studied at the Knesset (Israeli congress), and met/trained with high ranking military officials.</p>
<p>Do my EC activities and SAT’s balance out to an acceptance?</p>
<p>I don’t understand a couple of things here. I don’t understand why you can’t investigate a gap year before you know Brandeis’ decision, and I don’t understand why asking College Confidential what you can “anticipate” substitutes for knowing.</p>
<p>In other words, I wouldn’t base any important action on responses I got to this request.</p>
<p>But I’m sorry to say, I think it looks like an uphill battle. According to <a href=“http://www.brandeis.edu/institutionalresearch/2009pdfs/CDS2009_2010.pdf[/url]”>http://www.brandeis.edu/institutionalresearch/2009pdfs/CDS2009_2010.pdf</a> (Brandeis’ most recent common data set, page 10, item C11), 98.1% of their current first-year students had high-school GPAs of 3.0 or above, and 80.4% had GPAs of 3.5 or higher.</p>
<p>Sorry I did not clarify in my previous post. The reason I need to hear back from Brandeis before I apply to gap year programs is because of the deferral policy at Brandeis. They hold a very strict 1 year maximum deferal policy. It is the only school that I am applying to that has that policy. I am extremely interested in 2 gap programs but they are both two years. I would need to know that I am getting acceptance (or not) (as an ED applicant) before I can make decisions about what programs to apply to.</p>
<p>As for the validity of this website, you are certainly correct. I would probably not base any major decision on the comments of a user from this site. However it does ease some anxiety hearing from people who (if I am lucky) could add personal insight to this situation through their application experiences. If someone did/did not get in with a resume like mine, it would certainly add a valuable perspective. In addition, Brandeis has often been known for accepting based off of character traits rather than statistics.</p>
<p>Oh, two years. Well that does make sense.</p>
<p>I hope things all turn out well for you.</p>