<p>Hi I'm an rising senior and i'm currently FREAKING OUT about getting into college [due to parental pressure and self-motivation] and i just need to know what are my chances of getting into such a wonderous college such as brown university :]
-My current GPA: 3.75
-SAT score:1850
-Community service hours [up until this point]: over 700 hours
-my school doesn't rank :/
- received a 4 on the US History AP exam & English and Language Composition AP Exam
- received a 3 on the French Language AP exam
- currently the President of my debate team
- involved in numerous clubs [3]
- has no work experience as well as no internships
- Kansas residency</p>
<p>uhhh thats all i can think of at this point but ask if ya need to know more !! [just to delineate a proper picture of my chances!!]</p>
<p>no i’m african american but here is some more info about me:
okay i understand and appreciate everyone’s advice !! but would organizing and colllecting books from local libraries to send to deprived children in Awlaw, Nigeria as well as organizing “Jammin for Joplin” inorder to help raise money for the tornado disaster in Joplin, MO better my chances? also both my parents have english as their second language, but i wouldn’t be the first one to go to college.
and I love community service and always want to advocate for the common good so I would love to major in legal studies or history. To be evident to my passion, I volunteer for an organization called Youth Court in which the volunteers are attorneys for teens who’ve committed first-time misdemanor crimes, i’ve been apart of this program for about 4 years now.
Some special awards I’ve gotten include a Presidential Service award [bronze] and two other Presidential Service Awards [silver]. My school also offers academic awards based on a GPA greater than 3.65 throughout the school year so I’ve received numerous of those. Also, i’m the Vice President of the NAACP youth council in my area.
And then for debate, me and my partner placed 6th for the regional KCPLD tournment and i placed 9th place for Top Speakers of the Year. In addition I recieved a bar as well as a Degree of Distinction from the National Forensic League
I’m also planning to retake the SAT in october and score higher! :]</p>
<p>obicc, in all honesty, your current prospects are not very good for the most-selective colleges. URM status will confer something of a boost at just about all of them, but there will be large numbers of URMs also applying to these colleges who will have far more compelling applications, based on what you’ve presented. I don’t mean to be critical of your accomplishments or to put you down in any way but I think you should make sure to include other kinds of schools in your search as well, since you asked us to assess your chances. Good luck.</p>
<p>Hey I live in Colorado and I’m a youth attorney also! Just wanted to mention that. But in general, your stats are really good, I would retake the SAT again to see if you could at least get 2000 or a 2100. I know a girl who got accepted into NYU with a 2000. So people act like if you dnt have a perfect test score or perfect GPA then you’ll never get into a prestigious school. Not true. You have a really good chance. With those stats you could go to cornell maybe Duke.</p>
<p>SAT should be in 2000s. Don’t give them a reason to doubt your academic abilities. Maybe try the ACT. Sometimes people do much better on one compared to the other. </p>
<p>If a 4.0 at your school is awarded to those who are not only very intelligent but also need to put in a ton of effort, than 3.75 will not hinder you considerably. At my HS, which was very competitive, 3.7 was good enough to get into the Ivies, Stanford, Caltech, Chicago, Duke, etc. Heck even a 3.1 non-hooked applicant got into Caltech. So it all depends on context. </p>
<p>Your AP scores are decent. Shouldn’t hold you back too much.</p>
<p>If you are from a Kansas small town, that could also help. Colleges want diversity of all kinds. </p>
<p>If the Ivies do not work out for you, there are many schools just a step below. WashU, Michigan, Illinois, Tulane, etc. If your end goal is law school, there is no need to freak out now. Maybe look at the Yale Law School class profile. Of course, schools like Harvard and Princeton are represented. But alongside those are schools you may never have heard of (Coe College), or have heard of but never regarded highly (Chico State). Schools that might even pay you some money to attend.</p>