Chances at BROWN!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I attend private school in northern CA
9th and 10th attended New England prep school with bizarre grading system so I cannot calculate real GPA. (didn't get very good grades anyways)
Junior GPA=3.72 Weighted=4.2
Rank=1 or 2 of 80
Current classes: AP Studio, AP Calc, AP Econ, H English, H History, Independent study of Japanese III and Arabic I</p>

<p>I think I am taking the most demanding corseload in class</p>

<p>SAT I: M 710, R 710, W 650 ugh.
SAT II BioE 670, US H 750</p>

<p>AP scores: Art History 5, Bio 5, US History 5</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>School
International Conflict Club (founder and president)
Debate (team captain, state championship qualifier)
Lit Mag (submissions and arts editor)</p>

<p>Sports
Crew (4 years, varsity coxswain)</p>

<p>Job-
Catering Company (co-founder and co-chef)
Importing company (founder and president)</p>

<p>Community service
Spent '06 summer in India teaching english to Tibetan refugees (self-initiated)
Spent '05 summer in Laos teaching English
Work at homeless shelter and peer advisor at my church</p>

<p>Honors:AP scholar, Nat'l Merit commendation, Art history student of year, Comm service awards, debate awards, photo awards...</p>

<p>Schools I am applying to</p>

<p>Brown
Georgetown
U Penn
Berkeley
Emory
Rice
Barnard
Northwestern
Cornell (legacy)
NYU
Tufts</p>

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<p>Brown - Reach
Georgetown - High Match/Low Reach
U Penn - Big Reach
Berkeley - Match
Emory - High Match
Rice - Reach
Barnard - Match
Northwestern - Reach
Cornell (legacy) - High Match/Low Reach
NYU - Match/Low Match
Tufts - High Match/Low Reach</p>

<p>A word of warning. You are applying to some of the most selective schools in the U.S. and your stats, while good, are not stellar. It would not be out of the question for you to be rejected at all the schools you're applying to. I suggest you add at least a couple of safeties to your list.</p>

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<p>cornell dont careabout legacy for RD...so...reach..just like penn and brown</p>

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<p>Brown - no chance
Georgetown - decent chance
U Penn - no chance
Berkeley - decent chance
Emory - decent chance
Rice - decent chance
Barnard - in
Northwestern - decent chance
Cornell (legacy) - decent chance
NYU - good chance
Tufts - good chance</p>

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<p>I would call Brown a reach for you but still worth applying if it's your clear first choice and you can convince the adcom through essays and interview. Also depends on how much you would contribute to diversity--ethnic, geographic, or exotic major preferences and quality of your recs.</p>

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<p>Brown - SMALL REACH
Georgetown - MATCH
U Penn - MATCH
Berkeley - MATCH
Emory - MATCH
Rice - SMALL REACH
Barnard - MATCH
Northwestern - SMALL REACH
Cornell (legacy) - MATCH
NYU - MATCH
Tufts - MATCH</p>

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<p>Of course amptron2x I am applying to other safety schools..these are just my reaches. I have SMU, UCSB, UCSC, Tulane, UCSD as my safetys.</p>

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<p>based on the stuff you've done and the courses you've taken,
you sound rather intriguing! i'm not sure but it seems to me that brown is interested in interesting people,
i don't see why you wouldn't have a good chance.
good luck</p>

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<p>Penn a match? Maybe for Ben Franklin.</p>

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<p>It's good you have safeties. The reason I raised the issue is because some kids don't and don't even understand the need to have them. It's also good that you understand that most of the schools on the list you posted are reaches. Too many kids have an unrealistic view of their chances at top tier schools.</p>

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<p>cornell is no match for a person with 2070 SAT..even slight reach with legacy if ED.. and considering that cornell dont give a crap about legacy in RD, it is a solid reach</p>

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<p>Oh, trust me, legacy does matter at Cornell, even if it's RD. MANY of the kids I know at Cornell (and I know about 30) have brothers or sisters and/or parents who went there. My best friend in high school had a 1000 on her SATs and got in RD, probably because her mom/dad/uncles/aunts/and 3 of 4 grandparents went there. The only other school she got into was a waitlist at Sarah Lawrence.</p>

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<p>that's a huge generation...that's different...this guy only has a dad</p>

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<p>Well, then, let's talk about my other friend who "only had a dad" that went there. He also applied RD, with grades and SATs that should've taken him to Ithaca College only, yet he got in. It helps!</p>

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<p>I was thinking about talking to crew coaches at all the schools that have teams...but I don't want to get into a school for a sport and not do well academically....</p>

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<p>Well, if you didn't think you could handle the schools academically, I'm sure you wouldn't apply there in the first place. The vast majority of applicants can survive ivy league level college work, but they don't all get the chance. Instead, they go somewhere else where they get just as much work...it's other things about the "college experience" that are different. But yeah, you can contact the coach, but, especially for a cox, it's really hard to get recruited by a school like Cornell...there are plenty of other small people there, so you really have to be amazing and in one of the top, top, top boats to be noticed or cared about. It can't hurt to contact him though, and based on your grades, I'm sure you'll be fine academically, no matter what you got in for (if in fact you do).</p>

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<p>Sorry, for some reason, I thought you had only mentioned Cornell. But yeah, you should definitely talk to some of the coaches anyway, especially at the schools without quite as strong of a crew team, unless of course, you're just as strong a cox.</p>

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<p>I am on one of the best teams in the United States and the Coxswain boated above me is going to Penn and the one year before Princeton sooo...</p>

<p>Should I get a supplemental rec freom my coach?</p>

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<p>Also --the new england prep school I attended was one of the Philips...</p>