Community to Brown - likelihood?

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I know I’m definitely not the first student who has dreamed of transferring to Brown, but given my current status I’d like to know what the consensus is on how I’d be most likely to get there.

I graduated HS in the spring of last year with a GPA that only barely allowed me to walk. I was in the IB program and took the most rigorous classes my school had to offer, but I hardly turned in my work and eventually dropped out of the program. I got all 4s and 5s on my AP tests, however, and 6s and 7s on my IB tests. My SAT is a 2240, with an 800 in math, though I have yet to test again to try to raise my superscore. I was a varsity debate member, participated in academic league and academic decathlon, and founded a poetry club my senior year. I never applied to any colleges.

I took a break during the Fall of 2014 and now am taking as many credits and honors courses as possible this semester (Spring 2015) at a quality community college, and plan to get a 4.0. I’m on the Mock UN team and have been involved in grassroots committees and protests since the fall of last year. I’m not sure it would be of interest to an AdCom, but I am also currently teaching myself to play the violin.

Would I have a shot at an undergraduate transfer, or is it more likely that I would have to go to a non-Ivy school first as a sort of intermediate? Should I aim to take CLEPs or more IB/AP tests before applying? SAT/ACT? I do plan on getting involved in more extracurriculars and volunteer/internship programs.

Please be as honest as possible; and thank you.

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I don’t know that anyone can say except that transfers to Brown are highly competitive, you might want to view some of the outstanding applicants and results from current and past transfer threads.

Have you consulted the transfer center at your college to see if they have any resources for transfer to highly selectives? Seen if they have any articulation agreements with selective colleges? Cornell takes a lot more transfers than Brown, but I don’t know if those are mainly NY state applicants. It is likely. USC is another that takes a lot of CC transfers, most for CA but they will take others.

How many units to you plan to complete before enrolling? They do ask for your transcripts from HS. You can contact the transfer office. I would want to know they will consider a post-college SAT before I took it again. I don’t think CLEP are useful at all. AP and IB are HS level and you are past that now. Plus Brown doesn’t give much AP credit.