Chances for Brown ED!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey guys . . . I’m applying to Brown ED this fall and I think my essay and supplements are quite strong. I don’t think this matters much, but no one has attended Brown from my school yet since it is quite new. Although students have been accepted, no one has enrolled. I know that the Dean of Admissions is very keen on school diversity, so if I go, I will be the first one from my school to do so. How do you guys think I will do in the ED round?

Here are my stats:

Objective:

-I attend a small public charter school (highest performing high school in LA based off of SBAC results)
-UW GPA: 4.0
-W GPA: 4.79 (rank is 1/97)
-ACT: 34 (36E 33M 31R 34S 10W) Brown super scores by hand (what admissions said) so it’s not official policy but Brown super scores nonetheless.
-I take the hardest offered course load

AP tests: Lang (4)
APES (4)

*My school doesn’t offer APs, but we have to test into all of our honors classes

High School Schedule:

9th grade:
-Honors English 9
-Chemistry
-Honors Algebra II
-PE
-Art I
-Spanish I

10th grade:
-Honors Trig/Precalc
-Honors World History
-Honors World Literature
-Physics
-Spanish II
-Honors Biology

11th grade:
-Honors Environmental Science
-Honors Calc AB
-Honors American Literature
-Honors US History
-Spanish III
-Computer Science

12th grade:
-Honors Calc BC
-Honors Stats
-Honors Gov Econ
-Honors British Literature
-Honors Spanish 4
-H Enviro TA

Subjective:

-ECs:

-FREERUNNING (like parkour or American Ninja Warrior)
-I practice around 15-20hrs a week and was recently hired by my academy to become a coach. I rank #1 between the three Freerunning Academies in LA and SD (they share 1 ranking system)
-offered a spot on the Olympic Freerunning Committee (will hopefully be a sport in 2024 olympics)

-PIANO

  • I play around 3-4 hours a week, take lessons, and have participated in the national piano guild
  • I am in my school’s jazz band

-IMPROV/ACTING
-I’ve been participating for 5 years; I’ve been on the team for 3 years and am team captain
-I’ve also been in some commercials and short films

-STUDENT GOVERNMENT/STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT
-elected high school body president as a freshman, current senior class president
-11th grade representative

  • been an active member for all years of HS
    -fund raise for school apparel and school goods

-NHS (member)

-KEY CLUB (member)

-COMMUNITY SERVICE

  • through NHS and KC, I have done about 200 hrs of CS ( includes volunteering to teach kids freerunning and active beach cleanup)
  • done around 300 independently

-PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB ~5hrs/wk (President)
-Hold an exhibition at the end of the school year

-ASTRONOMY CLUB (VP)
-also took college astronomy class and got an A

-WRITING/YEARBOOK
-fouonder of writing club in 10th grade, president
-writing a novella over summer and will be self published
-internship with my city’s newspaper company
-senior yearbook editor

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Anyone?

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You’re certainly qualified. Spend less time worrying and more time perfecting your essays (which are VITALLY important at Brown especially) and make sure your application is cohesive and paints as complete a picture of you as possible.

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I’m just going to comment on your “school diversity” claim. I’ve never heard admissions mention this concept. Yes on geographic diversity, and Louisiana probably fits that need. But I doubt you’ll get in over another Louisiana resident just because of your high school.

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Giving this a bump. Edit: the two ACT scores I will be submitting are both a 32C, 34SS. Also, my combined English/writing score is a 34; I hope this helps a bit. I do know that Brown focuses on highest sub sections so idk if that’ll change anything.

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@skieurope could you possibly move this to the chances forum? I don’t want to make another thread. No worries if it’s a no-can-do.

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Brown has a new dean of admissions and I don’t think anyone yet knows how or what he’ll influence.
And you mean Los Angeles and San Diego, not Louisiana, right?

Agree, make sure your essays are on the mark.

And what’s the major, what activities related to that?

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@lookingforward I chose literary arts and I have an internship, yearbook, and general writing for that but I’m not really set on anything yet. That’s why I like the open curriculum; I’ll be able to try things out before deciding on a concentration. I also put architecture as a secondary interest but the only real experience I have with it is through my sport (explained in a supplement). However, when I went to an info session, the reps said that the majority of students switch their intended majors so they don’t really hold you to it.

Yes, I mean Los Angeles and San Diego.

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Moved.