Chance me?

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<p>Brown is my dream school and I plan on applying to their early decision program. I don’t think that my grades are all that impressive, but I was wondering if you could chance me.</p>

<p>GPA: Unweighted - 3.62
Weighted - 4.14</p>

<p>APs: AP English Lang (5) APUSH (3)</p>

<p>Senior year APs: Bio, French, Psych, AB Calc</p>

<p>ACT: I was having a really stressful day when I took the test. I plan on retaking it in the fall and hopefully improving it by at least 3 points.</p>

<p>27 - Composite
32 - English
29 - Math
23 - Reading
24 - Science</p>

<p>Awards: Perfect attendance since freshman year but other than that I haven’t really received any awards</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:

  • Band (held a position as an officer in 10th grade)
  • Chorus
  • French Club
  • Tennis (Captain)
  • Basketball (2 yrs, I may not mention it on my resume)
  • Field Hockey (1 yr, I may not mention it on my resume)
  • Tri-m Honor Society (President)
  • NHS
  • French National Honor Society
  • Student council (9th grade)
  • I do morning announcements everyday at my school
  • I am a member of the century club at school (it’s a club where my school awards students with the top GPAs in each grade level)</p>

<p>Job experience:

  • I work for a private tutoring company and I also tutor children around my neighborhood
  • 100+ hours of community service
  • Worked at an organization for 2 years during the summer that traveled to different community centers around boston where we taught young girls about nutrition, physical activity, body image, and healthy relationships.
  • This year, I am an intern at blue cross blue shield and I also work for an organization that works to prevent violence in the boston community.</p>

<p>Hooks:
I’m an African American female going into neurobiology. I’m also first generation from a single parent home. My dad never finished high school, My mom never went to college. Not sure of my moms income but I’m pretty sure it’s around 40k, maybe less.</p>

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<p>You should investigate questbridge.org. Incredible benefits – lots of work but worth it.</p>

<p>But to be frank, a 27ACT severely limits you for the context of Brown. Good luck</p>

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<p>@asiasmith1‌ if you are seriously considering Brown ED, you should definitely take a look at Questbridge like T26E4 says. It allows you to apply early to up to 8 schools, and if you are “matched” you are admitted with a full scholarship. So you could choose Brown and a few others that would be suitable second choices.</p>

<p>As a 1st generation low income student you have a couple hooks in your favor, and truthfully your stats are not bad at all, they are just not great. But between the GPA and ACT I would not get my hopes up with Brown.</p>

<p>Can you re-take the ACT? Have you been taking practice tests and consistently scoring higher than 27? I don’t know much about the ACT but it looks like if you focused on improving Reading and Science you could get it up to a composite score of 29 or 30, which is realistically what you’d need to be seriously considered by Brown.</p>

<p>Also, more importantly, there are a lot of other great schools that you might like just as much as Brown. It’s ok to focus your efforts on your dream school, but educate yourself about more than just the Ivy League. Vassar is a Questbridge school that is very strong in the sciences and has neuroscience program and I think has a similar feel to Brown (aside from location).</p>