Chances for your Ohioan Caucasian

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>I was wondering what my chances were at the boldest ivy.</p>

<p>Go to the largest High School in the state of Ohio in terms of student body (some colleges display incredulous thoughts upon talking to applicants from our school lol) We don’t hear about much here…</p>

<p>GPA W 4.3 ish
GPA UW 4.0
Rank 7 ish out of 800 or so now (will be tied for 1 at college app time and graduation)</p>

<p>Junior Year APs
US History
Spanish
Bio</p>

<p>Summer Online APs
Microeconomics
Psychology</p>

<p>Senior Year
AP Chemistry
AP Physics
BC Calculus
AP English Lit
AP US Gov & Pol
AP World History</p>

<p>Most Rigorous Schedule possible for the most part</p>

<p>My Test Scores (not taking these again)
SAT: 2400 Essay:10 only test
ACT: 35 Essay:11 only test
SAT 2’s:
US History: 790
Bio-M: 800
Math 2: 800
AP:
US History-5
Bio-5
Spanish Lang-4</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: nothing spectacular and my weakest point
Academic Team (3rd in state one year and 1st in conference for 2) Captain 12th
Chess Team (Featured in Chess Life) 1st team all conference, Captain 11th and 12th, easily top 10 skill in Ohio (i’ve beaten the best scholastic player in the state but am not rated)
Science Olympiads (regional and state medal winner in biology-related events) Captain 12th
Boy Scouts (with lots of leadership) will not be eagle scout by application time (but will get it)
Church with lots of leadership
NHS
Student Government this year and maybe Interact
Freshman Soccer Team
Hospital Volunteering this fall</p>

<p>Awards:
NHS
USAA Leadership and Service Award (9th or 10th grade can’t remember at the moment)
Member of the Order of the Arrow (BSA’s honor society)
Bausch & Lomb Science Award winner
Michelson-Morley award for math/science achievement
probably a few local i’m forgetting that i probably won’t include
National Merit (at least commended, i’m right on the cut-off for semi)</p>

<p>Exceptional teacher recs (I haven’t had a steady counseler so idk how that will go), my essays could cause jaws to drop, or they could be just good enough. I’m also a first generation college student according to the government, although my mom does have an associate’s degree.</p>

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<p>So, you're gonna be co-valedictorian of your class, you have perfect SAT's, nearly perfect SAT II's, a smattering of awards, good teacher recs, good essays, and an impressive set of ec's that you're (sheepishly) modest about?</p>

<p>Why on earth are you asking for your chances? If you're smart enough to have built up this CV, you should be smart enough to understand that your stats are basically at ceiling and we can't really tell you anything about your chances.</p>

<p>For what it's worth, almost everyone I know at Brown (including a couple Ohioan Caucasians) had stats that were not as impressive as yours. But most of them are genuinely interesting people. Are you? Your stats tell me nothing about that.</p>

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<p>hey, your stats look great! </p>

<p>im a fellow caucasian ohioan who is entering brown as a sophomore transfer . email me if you have any questions about admissions (not that i'm an insider, but i did pull it off!)</p>

<p>being interesting and bein honest are key</p>

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<p>ummm....this thread should die</p>

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<p>mgcsinc -- I can't believe I stumbled upon this post! You are referring to me when you said "Ohioan Caucasians"!</p>

<p>I'm glad you think I am an interesting person! yay!</p>

<p>Let's just say the admissions officer for Ohio has a photograph memory... so be prepared to be on Thayer street 3 years after you were admitted and have a random guy rattle off all your statistics.</p>

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<p>lol, hanging out on CC? What are you, me? I see that the end of your summer is REALLY busy.</p>