<p>Hi-- I'd love if you could take a second to chance me! I'm looking at most of the NESCACs (Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Middlebury) and my top choice is Brown as of now.</p>
<p>User Name: mhmocean
Gender: F
College Class Year: 2017
High School: Public
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>
<p>APs-- only 2 Junior year because of semester school, 3 planned for Senior year (max. allowed)</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 730
SAT I Critical Reading: 720
SAT I Writing: 750
SAT II U.S. History: 720
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 730</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars: Went to a semester school Spring of Junior year w/ agriculture/environmental perspective.
Founder of Hiking and outdoors club
President of Community service club
President of A Cappella group</p>
<p>Volunteer/Service Work: Farmers' market, Farm to School Program, Community service at second school
Honors and Awards: NHS, Fidelity prize
College Summer programs: College class on Farm to Fork at College of the Atlantic, Sustainable Agriculture internship, Worked in cafe 4 summers in a row</p>
<p>NOTES: My school is a sending school for Harvard and may lessen my chances of getting into other competitive schools.
Also, it's hard to see here, but I think my ECs have a good "story". I went from volunteering at farmers' market -> founding Hiking club -> environmental semester school -> sustainable agro internship + farming college class + farm to school volunteering.
I go to a rigorous public school.
My GPA will not be on my transcript because I went to a semester school. My essay should be pretty strong, one of my recommendations is coming from the head of school/enviro teacher at semester school who loved me.
ALSO I'm middle eastern, if that counts?
Thanks!!!</p>
<p>possibly? I’m at a combined 2180 right now and maybe I could gain enough to get into the 2200s. I’m against hiring tutors/taking classes, so I don’t know if I’d go up a significant amount. When I took them the 2nd time the subjects that I wasn’t super focused on I didn’t do well in, so maybe if I took them again without a commitment I wouldn’t improve. But I’ll probably end up taking them again.</p>
<p>Thanks for the chances!
By sending school I mean my school has an extremely close with Harvard and sends around 25-30 kids a year. There’s a lot of speculation that because competitive schools know that most kids in my school need the money, and Harvard has the money to give, that they’ll go there. Sadly, they’re usually right. But I don’t want to go to Harvard!
I am definitely thinking about Brown ED seriously because it is my top choice, but there’s the whole other issue of applying to Harvard EA just for the chance.</p>
<p>This year I took AP US History and AP Language, next year I’m taking AP Calc AB, AP Lit, and AP Italian. I think I did OKAY on my APs this year, I’m a strong student but was at an anti-AP semester school so I didn’t really study. We’ll see!</p>
<p>Wait, over 5% of your graduating class is accepted at Harvard each year? Sorry, I’m not buying that. Harvard accepts less than 7% of all applicants. To have one in twenty kids apply (let alone be accepted) from one high school is unheard of. That would mean that nearly 2% of the incoming class was from your school alone. They get tons of qualified applicants every year from all over the place. They don’t need to accept that many from any one school.</p>
<p>Urbanslaughter-- I don’t know what to tell you, it’s true. We have 28 kids going this year (usually somewhere around 25) and the graduating class was somewhere in the 300s. We’re a sending school. These schools exist. They do that because we’re a magnet/advanced school that has a long relationship with Harvard. I don’t want to say my school but if you’re dying to know message me.</p>
<p>Why don’t you try at Harvard then? You have the numbers in my opinion. Of course, Harvard is a very HIGH reach for anyone, but trying maybe is worth it in this case.
Anyway, I think that you have good GPA, SAT and SAT subjects so you’ll be fine for all of this. You have also well rounded ECs, volunteer activity, and awards + a summer class program, and that will definitely help, too. Maybe there’s a lack of APs, but if you make sure to explain that in the letters of recommendation you’ll be fine. Remember that these ECs are, anyway, pretty average for Brown candidates, so make sure to write great essays and you definitely have a good shot there I’d say is a low reach for you.
Good luck! </p>
<p>Im sorry but urbanslaughter your comment is so mathematically incorrect I made an account just to point it out. Also that 617ocean would blindly accept yout logic like that is just scary considering the colleges you’re applying for…</p>
<p>Milesh07- yes I noticed their math was off. I didn’t want to call them out personally and attack them, but just point out that MY statistics were correct.</p>
<p>You have a great shot. You show interest in a particular field and if you apply ED at Brown it will show that you have that same fervor for Brown. Nail the essays, and possibly retake the SAT for 2200s at least. You don’t need tutors/classes. Just take practice tests and use CC for strategies. Best of luck!</p>
I’d say is a low reach for you.