Chances @ Brown

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I really would like to go to Brown. I also applied to Cornell. But now as I think about it, Brown is #1 for me. It’s in a great city, a lot of things to do, and I like the liberal culture of the school. I was rejected from MIT and will most likely be rejected from Stanford. Here are my stats:

[ b]Objective:**
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[ *] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[ *] ACT (breakdown): 35 (34 M 36 R 36 E 34 S)
[ *] SAT II: 770 Math II, 800 Spanish, 800 Chemistry
[ *] Unweighted GPA: 3.90
[ *] Weighted GPA: 4.36
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank, but definitely in top 12.5%.
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): Physics B (4), Spanish Language (5), Calc AB (4) Chemistry (5)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Psych, AP English Lang, AP Calc BC, AP Spanish Lit, AP Comp Sci
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): IDK. I’ve won hundreds of awards for my app in the computer science and economic fields. Nothing academic.
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[ b]Subjective:**
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[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): CEO of my own app company.
developer of one the most successful apps in the world (top 10 in over 80 countries),
CFO of a huge app corporation here in NY (several of the board members are famous and published engineers and economists)
varsity Volleyball,
varsity basketball,
president of app club,
president of the Medicine Club.
board member on school’s wall street and investing committee
Taekwondo black belt,
working with venture capitalists in the app field
multicultural officer
chief of finance for robotics club, helped secure funding through app connections
research articles on apps working with programmers and economists
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Over 500 hours interning for various physicians. working with experts in the App market to create apps. interviewing and examining app proposals for several big Silicon Valley companies.
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Almost 340 hours teaching English abroad in 3rd world countries, cancer research, thousands of hours teaching underprivileged kids how to program and market apps
[ *] Summer Activities: Volunteering abroad, app developing, app conferences, computer science lectures, interning, research, etc. Did a case study on curing pediatric cancer one summer, the next I traveled around the world for my app, this summer I will do so more volunteer work and more app stuff.
[ *] Essays: Very good. 9/10 for both. One about my apps, other about the experience that changed my life
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: 10/10 from Spanish teacher, 9/10 from History teacher
[ *] Counselor Rec: 10/10?
[ *] Additional Rec: N/A
[ *] Interview: Went well!
[ *] Supplementary Material (portfolio, etc.): N/A
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[ b]Other**
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INTENDED MAJOR: Unknown (Economics??)
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[ *] Country (if international applicant): USA
[ *] School Type: Extremely competitive private school
[ *] Ethnicity: Chinese
[ *] Gender: M
[ *] Income Bracket: 250,000+
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A
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I get you’re nervous – but why post a “chance me” thread when you’re under two weeks from hearing? What benefit can you really obtain by strangers’ opinions. Congrats on the superlative achievement to date. Whatever college you end up at in Sept will be glad to have you. You’ll be fine.

EDIT: Very disappointing that you posted the same thing 4 times. Please relax. People’s guesses are meaningless.

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@t26e4 I agree. I am very stressed out though. I guess I like hearing from people with experience to guess a head of time. it settles my nerves. sorry.

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I get that. But look – you have fantastic credentials. Wherever you land, you’ll 99.9% do fine. The name of the school is only a tiny bit – trust me: been there done that (and I’m Chinese too!).

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@t26e4 that’s why i’m worried. I don’t agree I have fantastic credentials in the grade department. I got a B in physics (granted, only one person in our entire class got an A) and a B+ in history freshman year. my weighted gpa, a 4.36, is the average to get into cornell and brown from my school but there are kids with 4.67 and 4.75s right now.

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friend: if you get rejected from a school, it won’t be because of your B and B+.

And know this: the decision has already been made. How do you benefit from worrying about what may and may not happen? Stop fetishizing your college. In 10 yrs, that piece of paper will be hardly noticed on your wall or in some box somewhere. Really.

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A fantastically qualified senior on another board wrote this after listing his credentials, and noting that he had gotten into some great schools but rejected by 1 or 2 others.

“College admissions is all about what the admissions officers are looking for, not what you are. Don’t let something like college admissions dissuade you from your potential or your achievements in any way, just do your best, and if the fit isn’t right then there’s a better path for you somewhere else.”

It struck me as honest and wise, so I thought I’d copy and paste it here for appgodxoxo, although I do hope you get into Brown.

By the way, your screen name made me chuckle as many of these names do. Best of luck to you.

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@t26e4 i hope so

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“I guess I like hearing from people with experience.”

Here’s the thing – no one here meets that description. We’re not admissions officers. While some of us are parents and alums with some knowledge, most CCers are other high school students like yourself who know no more than you do.

You’ve got the grades, scores, ECs. You will succeed no matter where you go (you did apply to at least one safety, a real safety, I hope). Good luck.

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@fireandrain then why have a section called “What Are My Chances?” if it’s full of " high school students like yourself who know no more than you do"

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Because the people who own/run College Comfidential know their audience really well. I never go there. In fact, that forum was created specifically to stop posters from clogging up other forums with chances threads.

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^ agree 100%. @appgodxoxo The “Chance Me” forum is basically the sink trap for all the detritus posts that clogged up the information posts on the various fora. Have you ever read the replies? Mindless drivel. And I’m being kind.

sigh – may I say one thing? You simply MUST leave this site until after decisions come in. the nervousness you’re displaying is rather extreme IMHO. The earth will not split because a college chooses you or not chooses you. There is much more to life than this – please get your head out of this bucket. Go get some take out. Go play some video games. Go shopping. Go play with a young relative. Your no. of posts, all seeking reassurance, at the cusp of decision day don’t scream out your maturity and wealth of perspective. Please – go away and have some fun. You deserve it. You’ve worked immensely hard for 4 years. Give yourself a break for a few days. Choose a class and PURPOSEFULLY get a B or a C!

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@T26E4‌ the purpose of this forum is to ask questions, help others, talk to fellow applicants, voice your opinions and worries, etc… That’s what a forum is. It is completely natural for a candidate to be stressing about college decisions at this time and go to others about it. In actuality, the fact that decisions are already made stresses students out more because it causes them to panic at the last minute about the reality of it all. It isn’t an absurd concept and is felt by seniors world wide; it doesn’t mean the poster lacks maturity. Appgod (lol), I think the number one reason you shouldn’t stress is because you have GREAT credentials, not because the decision is already made. Stressing over that is natural and inevitable. However, seek comfort in the fact that you are an extremely qualified candidate and you will succeed wherever you go. I think you have an amazing shot at getting into Brown and other top schools. Good luck!! This anxiety will all be over within a few days!

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I don’t even care. I got into Stanford. @ltdani

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Lol ok nvm…

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I guess you are an app god.

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@kaukauna I guess so lol