<p>Hello all!
I am a rising senior and was wondering if I could be chanced for Brown ED. I have asked a few people and I’ve gotten a variety of responses. However, I have some unusual circumstances, and I wanted to know how much of a [negative] impact they might have (as much as I don’t like chance threads).</p>
<p>General info:</p>
<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicities/Races: White (European/Middle-Eastern), Hispanic (South American/Caribbean), Asian (…China)
Income: 150,000+
Location: suburban MA, competitive public high school (sends about 15 to ivies each year), about 8 APs offered (most can only be taken senior year)
GPA: …not sure how I should calculate it. see bottom
Class rank: 1st decile (our class only gives deciles) of 270+
SAT score (CR/M/W): 600/760/740 (69 MC, 11 essay) total 2100.
will retake for hopeful CR raise in october.
SAT IIs: French w/listening- 770, Lit- 570 (will not submit), Math II- 670 (will not submit), Spanish reading- 680
will retake spanish in november (btw I’m not a native Spanish speaker).</p>
<p>Course workload: AP french sophomore year (only soph to take AP course), always took highest foreign language/english/history class available, but regular math and science.
APs: AP french language (5), will take AP Calc AB, AP bio, and AP spanish senior year</p>
<p>ECs: I started an organization that has raised nearly $100,000 so far to build filters and wells in Guatemala and Rwanda by selling custom-made stainless steel water bottles (for a dual-environmental effect?). it goes deeper than that though; trust me, it’s been my life these past few months.</p>
<p>Other- I’ve worked in orphanages in guatemala and ecuador, taught english at a boarding school in china, played piano for 11 years (composition), played guitar+voice for 3 years, black belt in Tae Kwon Do (8 years continuing), self-taught artist (pretty good), multilingual (english, french, spanish, taught self japanese), etc. other than that i have the rest of your ‘average ecs’ (newspaper and stuff).</p>
<p>Work experience: french/spanish tutor, logo design, summer camp counselor.</p>
<p>Recs, passions, supplements: recs will be great; both of the teachers asked me if they could write mine.
Passions are ‘community’ service, languages, art, music. I also come from an extremely diverse and service-oriented background…I think.
As for supplements, I’m planning on submitting mini art portfolio, piano recordings.</p>
<p>Hooks: URM, cousin just graduated from Brown? (she was quite famous in the athletics department).</p>
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<p>Other: Okay, so here’s my problem…my freshman year i had a very difficult transition period (depression, hospitalization, eating disorder, deaths in family, etc.) and got B+s in two/six classes (which isn’t terrible, but …it’s Brown) and had to drop down from 2 honors classes to 2 regular. I’ve had an immense upward trend since then (straight As, etc.), but my freshman year is really bringing down my cumulative GPA (by at least .3) and might even keep me from being in the top decile. Without freshman year, I would definitely be in at least the top 5% of my class. (My guidance counselor will be explaining my freshman year grades in her rec with a ‘medical issue,’ I know she shouldn’t go in more detail than that, nor should she write more than one sentence on it). The question is, how much will freshman year affect my chances? <<<-arbitrary question</p>
<p>Also, Brown’s pretty allergic to my high school. 3 people have been accepted in the last 9 years or so.</p>
<p>In conclusion, I’m sorry this thread is so long; I tried to keep it as short as possible. And I’m also sorry if I come off as super obnoxious!! Which I realize is difficult not to do in chance threads, cause you’re basically bragging about every little accomplishment you’ve made.</p>
<p>Thanks so much! Brown is an amazing school and I really hope I have a shot, much less am able to get in! (ah, crapshoots)</p>