<p>GPA: 4.3
Rank: 7/189…Top 5%
ACT: 33
SAT II: math I=700…us history=740 (taking again, don’t worry).
Classes:
Freshman year=All honors (No AP’s offered)
Sophomore year=All honors (No AP’s offered)
Junior year=AP US History (5 on exam) and all honors (No more AP’s offered)
Senior year=AP Gov, AP Environmental Science, AP Stats, and all honors</p>
<p>Sports:
Captain and four year member of varsity hockey team.
Member of golf team.
Member of two time State Champion lacrosse team. (4 yrs)</p>
<p>Community service: 1000+ hours in Gulf of Maine Institute environmental protection group presenting to numerous congressmen in the USA and Canada, and also featured on the Today Show. Started in 7th grade.
200+ hours as Religious Education teacher for three years.
100+ hours in numerous soup kitchens and service projects through Campus Ministry.</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
National Honors Society
Spanish National Honors Society
Wells College Leadership Scholarship (20K/yr)
Extracurricular Award
Sophomore Class Award
Coaches Award for hockey
Varsity Letters
Campus Ministry Leadership Award
Invited to National Youth Leadership Conferences in Washington D.C.
Clubs/Hobbies:
Gulf of Maine Institute (mentioned above).
Political Club
Environmental Club
Spanish Club
Saints for Life Club (Pro-life club)–>President
History Club
Campus Ministry–>Leadership team
Youth Ministry (Local church)–>Leadership team
Philosophy Club</p>
<p>I have been an upperclass mentor for freshman for two years, along with being a student ambassador for my school which entails going to middle schools and recruiting/advertising the school.</p>
<p>I’m sure I’m forgetting some stuff, but what the hell. Probably going to apply Early Decision to Brown, but might investigate UPenn or Cornell for ED. Who knows? Any imput would be fantastic!</p>
<p>instead of taking the US history SATII again, i might consider taking Math II. If you can pull of a 750+ on that, i think it might look better than a 700 and a marginally higher history score.</p>
<p>I think you have good chances, even if you didn't retake any of your SATIIs.</p>
<p>Is it true that if you submit the ACT + Writing to Brown, you don't need to submit the SAT II's? That's the impression that I got from some other prospective applicants. If that is the case, goodbye SATII's.</p>
<p>And I'm not really sure about taking Math II considering to this point I am only up to PreCalculus. Would that be sufficient enough to do well on the test?</p>
<p>well with open curriculum it would be very possible to do a double concentration, so although environmental science would not be my top area of study, i could still do a concentration in it along with another area. so, i guess being a male and doing environmental science would be a good option.</p>
<p>I wasn't connecting male to environmental sciences. Brown definitely needs male applicants (I think the ratio is something like 40-60, men-women), and environmental science is a program that is not overrun with applicants (like poli sci and international relations).</p>
<p>You sound super-interesting. The fact that you have a wide range of interests PLUS concentrated, in-depth passions is a big deal. You should go for it. (As an Ed admit, I have to say it does make some things easier...)</p>
<p>*and environmental science is a program that is not overrun with applicants (like poli sci and international relations).
*</p>
<p>It wouldn't matter if he put down Environmental Science on his application because
1) You don't apply to a specific department within the university but rather the undergrad college as a whole and
2) Brown knows that college students are fickle and will change their minds very often.</p>
<p>In regards to the male-female ratio, it is actually 55-45, according to College Board. Does anyone know if Brown is comfortable with this ratio (a la Vassar) or if they are actively attempting to even it by giving males a competitive advantage?</p>
<p>haha oops, the similarities are crazy - i saw the gulf of maine thing and i associated moose w/ maine hehe...
all the clubs and ap's and stuff are virtually identical to our school, and there aren't too too many biggish catholic hs's around i guess. my bad!
jesuit school btw? that would explain all the similarities!</p>
<p>verbal: the percentage I quoted (60-40 female/male ratio) applies to the applicants, not the student body. That's an approximation -- it's probably closer to 58-42.</p>
<p>Yes, there is a slight advantage to being a male applicant. I don't have the statistics in front of me, but I believe the male acceptance rate is something like 16% compared to a female acceptance rate of something like 12%.</p>
<p>And the male/female ratio of the entire student body is not 55/45 -- it's closer to 50/50 (maybe 52/48?).</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the advice thus far. But I have one more thing that I forgot to mention, and I'm not sure how beneficial it would be, but what the heck. </p>
<p>I have a cousin (Dr. Paul Donahue)that went to Brown and is now an internationally famous doctor and lecturer who has written several children's psychology books. He's gone on to be the head of Columbia and Georgetown's psychology departments, and he does tons of lectures to big shots. He is a very wealthy guy who contributes a TON of money to the school, so I was wondering if this would help me at all. He's not a parent or sibling, but is it still a noteworthy connection? Perhaps with a phone call or letter?</p>