Chances for ED at Brown and RD at others

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>white, jewish male
Early Decision to Brown University</p>

<p>GPA: 97.0 (extremely competitive high school, graduating class of 580, would be easily top 5% if ranked/deciled)
SAT: 2150 (680 CR, 800 M, 670 W,) from march 06 test
Retaking SAT's in October, CR should go up to 700-740 and writing to 740-780
ACT: 33 Composite
Class Rank: school does NOT rank</p>

<p>SAT II:
Math II-790
US History- 720
Biology- 650 (freshman year, w/e)</p>

<p>Legacy at Brown:
sister (class of '08)
first cousin (class of '09)</p>

<p>No financial aid requested</p>

<p>grades strong upward trend since freshman year (Fresh:A's to Soph:A/A+ to all Junior:A+'s), strongly noted in recommendation</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:</p>

<p>AP Biology
AP Literature and Comp
AP French
AP Microeconomics
AP Govt & Politics
AP Calculus AB
Wind Ensemble (honors audition only band)</p>

<p>Honors:
National Honors Society inductee
French National Honors Society (10-12)
Distinguished on Honor Roll for every marking period in high school (9-12)</p>

<p>Extra-Currics:
Model United Nations
- Club President (12)
- Trip Coordinating Officer (11)
- Won 3 awards at various conferences
Varsity Baseball 4 years
Competitive Club baseball for 11 years including multiple county/tournament championships
Student Government
- Chairman High School Community Service Committee
Marching Band
French Horn and Trumpet study for 9 years
Community Service Club
Political Science Club
National History Club
JV Soccer for 2 years
Very good amount of community service
Much work experience including tutor, camp counselor, golf caddy, and working in a store
Summer pre-college program at Penn state</p>

<p>Counselor recommendation should be amazing, have a great bond and relationship with counselor
1 teacher rec should be amazing also, had teacher for 2 years, great relationship, got A+'s in AP classes both year
2nd teacher rec should be good, not great had for 2 years in honors english and ap lit
Alumni recommendation from my sister, this was suggested by admissions rep at brown when i was there, will also be great (or hopefully assuming she doesnt want to screw me lol)</p>

<p>any advice/help/feedback you guys could offer would be amazing and i would really really really appreciate it if you could give me odds/percent chances of getting into brown early decis and ill also list my RD schools too, can you also state my chances at getting into those places as well if brown doesn't work out, thanks!!</p>

<p>Northwestern RD
UMichigan Rolling (application sent out 9/9/07)
U of Virginia RD
William & Mary RD
Dartmouth RD
UPenn RD
Yale RD
Vanderbilt RD
WashU RD
Georgetown RD
Duke RD
Cornell RD</p>

<p>thanks again!! if you respond to me and would like me to give my thoughts on your case leave a link ill be sure to give my two cents</p>

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<p>Legacy at Brown:
sister (class of '08)
first cousin (class of '09)</p>

<p>if theyre still in brown, i dont believe that counts as legacy</p>

<p>id say solid chance at brown. just be wary to emphasize that your ecs are not merely a laundry list, which it currently does look at (cus theres just so much!)</p>

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<p>siblings/cousins don't count as legacy. sorry</p>

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<p>ok so ignore legacy and consider it something else that fits, that issue is far from the point of the post</p>

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<p>maybe?</p>

<p>idk i still think that while it may be in your reach (brown), it's still going to be a reasonably big stretch. That said, you may overcome that by essays/recommendations if you're lucky. </p>

<p>Brown- Maybe</p>

<p>all the other schools are hard to chance because there's nothing definitive about you that grabs my eye. So maybe you just haven't represented yourself well here on cc. If you do rep yourself better on paper, your chances may be better.</p>