<p>Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income: Upper Middle
School: Public/Magnet (focuses heavily on math and science), consistently ranked as one of the best in the nation
Hooks (?): Mom went to Harvard for grad school, dad went to Johns Hopkins for grad school</p>
<p>SAT: 2340 (M/CR/W - 800/790/750)
SAT II:
Math 800
Bio 800
French 800
(Planning to take Chem soon)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.98 UW</p>
<p>AP: AP Comp Sci (5), AP Euro (5), AP Stat (4), AP Bio (5)
I’m taking AP Psychology, AP French, AP Chem, and AP Calc BC right now. I’m planning to take AP English Lit & Composition, AP Government, and AP Micro/Macro next year.</p>
<p>JV Tennis in freshman and sophomore years
Varsity Tennis this year and possibly next year
Qualified for USAMO
President of Biotechnology Club
Founded the Neuroscience Club
French Honor Society
Took grades 1-8 violin exams
Going to do the required senior research project in neuroscience next year
Research/Internship with National Institutes of Health (NIH) this summer
Fluent in 4 languages</p>
<p>Going to apply for Intel STS next year</p>
<p>Brown is my dream college. I want to major in pre-med/neuroscience and eventually become a neurosurgeon. </p>
<p>I think you know just as well as anyone else that you’re a strong candidate with a good GPA, great SAT’s and some good EC’s. What i’ve come to learn from these “chance” threads on CC (and i’m sure you will too) is that they’re complete BS. nobody can accurately predict your chances. They can only give criticism or feedback that’s pretty obvious to begin with.</p>
<p>So here it goes…
Your ethnicity puts you at a slight disadvantage since Asians are now over-represented in the applicant pools of schools like Brown.
Keep up the good grades and make sure they don’t slip up in your senior year. There’s not much you can do now with EC’s but keep them up too. Colleges don’t like to see applicants dropping their activities in their last year of High School.</p>
<p>If Brown is your number 1 choice, you may want to look into applying ED as it expresses interest in the university. As I’m sure you already knew, you’re a strong applicant.
Good Luck!</p>
<p>P.S. the fact that your parents went to grad school at Harvard and JHU isn’t a hook. Why would Brown care? it may help if you’re applying to either of those schools, however it wouldn’t affect your Brown application or your chances in any way.</p>
<p>Oops! I just copied and pasted this from another thread with a chance me for all the colleges I want to apply to! (That explains the JHU and Harvard thing…)</p>
<p>You sound like you have a decent chance to me! However, with these types of schools, it’s always a crap shot…</p>
<p>Just one word of advice: instead of lurking on college confidential for chances, go out and focus on what you can control! Pour your heart out in your personal statements and be sure to get great recommendations.</p>
<p>Hey, I just ran across this post. I think I’ll take a second to fill you all in on some things I’ve gathered through working a bit in admissions with Brown. I am a recent alum now working as a college counselor. Firstly, the stats posted above are AMAZING!! To consider them other than that would be silly…seriously. But you probably already know that. From my case studies with Brown, they turn down so many people with perfect scores and straight A’s. You must ask yourself what it is about you as a leader that fits into the loose model of a Brown student. Brown Admissions really looks for independent students who have demonstrated that they take initiative. For example, in one case study of two similar applicants with spectacular stats, the ultimate “winner” was the girl who demonstrated she took initiative to plan a trip to Kenya despite hesitations from her parents. The other applicant was a published playwright and director with near perfect stats and yet was not admitted. It was a bummer to witness this…but it made me realize how tedious this process is for everyone involved; especially my friends in the admissions office who literally sift through every file. The open curriculum is beautiful but is not for everyone. Thus, Brown is also looking for kids who are just academic in general. It’s great that you have straight A’s, but are you actually academically curious. Kids at Brown are really smart and are constantly charting their own academic paths combined with the real-life skills that the school endows upon its students through its resources and opportunities. In one case study I participated in, the kid was not at all a top student. But he had a passion for history. So much so that he ended up teaching part of the AP history class in high school. Brown noticed this kid’s curiosity and found him compelling enough to admit him. All in all, I’d say continue to highlight how you find yourself contributing to the rich student population. At a school like Brown, stats are incredibly important but once you sort of have them, everything else will matter more.</p>