Chances at Brown

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<p>Well, everyone’s doing the “what are my chances” thing so tell me what you think:</p>

<p>white male from washington state high school of national acclaim</p>

<p>GPA: 3.94 (unweighted)
Class Rank: approx. 20 out of 343 (unweighted)
SAT I: 1470 (750 V, 720 M)
SAT II: Writing–710
Ecological Biology–680
Math IC–620 (yeah, i know…)
AP Classes/Scores:
AP World History–5
AP Chemistry–4
AP English Language–5
AP Statistics–5
AP Biology–4
AP US History–4
AP English Lit–5</p>

<p>Taking AP Calculus AB, AP Psychology, AP Government/Contemporary world this year</p>

<p>National Merit Semifinalist (hopefully soon to be a finalist!)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars -</p>

<p>-Varsity Tennis (Big school w/ rich tennis-playing kids, so this is actually an achievement)
-year-round select tennis club team member
-school newspaper staff-member
-jewish community center youth group involvement
-attended 2004 youth conference
-peer-tutor in many subjects
-young democrats club member
-worked at grocery store since spring '04</p>

<p>I was recently selected as 1 of 2 people in the senior class at my school to be honored for academic acheivement by the city Lions’ Club (I’m not sure how significant this actually is, but I hope it’s really impressive…)</p>

<p>I want to major in English or Jewish studies, but I’m really interested in medicine and I plan on going to medical school (perhaps at Brown, if i get in!)</p>

<p>So, do you think I have a solid shot at acceptance to Brown??? Also, should I retake my SAT II’s?</p>

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<p>solid shot yes, wouldnt hurt to retake sat II's</p>

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<p>lol yeah to keep the possibility of you being pwned by the adcoms to a minimum, i say u retake SAT II math and writing, and take an SAT II literature, since bio is too hard to study again for (too many random concepts).</p>

<p>other than that, you have a good shot</p>

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<p>haha thanks samson cause you couldn't have told me that in person</p>

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<p>i wouldn't take a different satII, eco bio is a really easy one. if you get the princeton review book for it. i read that book in the few days before the test, having taken the bio course 3 years ago, and i got 740! it was a nice surprise. i sang my praises for PR for a long time after that.</p>