I am a rising senior attending a medium sized public school in New England. My family is from Sweden so I am bilingual and have dual citizenship. My top choice is Brown and I am wondering if I have a chance of getting in?
My high school doesn’t calculate class rank but I have had all A’s (except one B+ freshman year) and junior year had an average of 97. I would assume that I’m in the top 10% of my class based on what I hear from classmates.
I am a national merit scholar semi-finalist and got a 34 on my ACT. I haven’t taken the subject tests and I’m not sure if I will, since they aren’t required with the ACT.
As for classes, here is what I have taken/will take: (my school doesn’t allow freshman or sophomores to take AP classes)
Freshman year: honors geometry, honors biology, honors English, honors civics, Spanish 2, band, gym
Sophomore year: honors algebra 2, honors chemistry, honors history, honors sophomore English, band, Spanish 4
Junior year: AP US History (got a 5), honors physics, honors literature, honors pre calculus, Spanish 5. I also took college level Anatomy and Physiology and Human Growth and Development classes through my school’s technical center, for which I received 7 college credits. These classes took up two class blocks every day, so they limited my ability to take more AP classes
Senior year: I will be taking AP biology, AP government, AP calculus, AP Spanish, AP literature, and a mandatory senior seminar class
Extracurriculars:
-I’ve been on the Nordic ski team since freshman year (two years JV, two years varsity)
-Varsity tennis since freshman year, though I was injured junior year and was unable to play
-Model United Nations since sophomore year. This year I will be one of the (two) leaders and will organize and chair two conferences at my school
-I became a member of my school’s environmental club (which only has five members) my junior year and will be a leader of the club my senior year. With the club, I organized a school-wide “earth day extravaganza” event and am working on campaigns to raise awareness about recycling and composting and we are trying to eliminate single-use plastic water bottles form our vending machines.
-I interned at City Hall my junior year, where I lead a project against idling. I brought a local anti-idling organization to present to the driver’s education class, which will become a yearly event. I also worked with the city to get them to put up official anti-idling signs around the school’s parking lot. I hosted a press conference with the superintendent and school principle to commemorate these new signs.
-For the last two years, I have helped lead a children’s running club at a local elementary school.
-I have taught piano lessons to neighborhood kids for the past three years. I have had six students overall and all have become at least proficient in piano.
-I did theater for ten years, including freshman and sophomore year but had a bad experience with my school’s drama club and also realized that I was more interested in pursuing other interests
-this summer, I have been a lab assistant in a neuroscience lab at a local university. We have been testing mice to see how a certain gene plays a role in generalization of fear.
-I also work at American Eagle as a sales associate
-I am an avid runner and have run three half marathons and will be running my fourth this fall
-I am a member of NHS and will be an Advisory Mentor for freshman this year
-My team and I were the state champions of our state’s Brain Bee, which is neuroscience competition for high schoolers
-I was a member of the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council sophomore year and might do it again my senior year
-I also do various volunteer work around my town
I am planning on double majoring in neuroscience and political science. The other schools I’m looking at include Dartmouth (where my dad went and now teaches at), Yale, Amherst, Tufts, Colombia, and Vassar.
I know getting into Brown is not easy but I’m just wondering others on here think.
Thanks!
