<p>I’ve been trying to get competent feedback considering my application for the IR-couse offered by Brown in german forums, but people seem to have a lack of knowledge so i hope that you guys could tell me if I should consider applying to Brown or not?</p>
<p>My Stats:</p>
<p>Age: 17
Mother: Slovenian, refugee from the civil war in former Yugoslavia
Father: German
Yearly income: (100000-200000 Euros)
Gpa: In Germany the equivalent is called the Abitur, which is hard to transfer into the American System; should be around 3,8
Sat’s: 2210
Subjects: World History (800), Math I (720), Literature (700) (Going to do them again in October)
TOEFL: Same thing </p>
<p>Languages:
English (fluent level), Spanish (fluent level), French (fluent level), Latin (Latinum), Slovenian (Basic Knowledge)</p>
<p>Activities within school:
->Head and initiator of a project named ‘Drinking is not cool’ against abuse of alcohol by minors under 16; honored by german mentor foundation with 2000 Euros
->Initiator of the ‘Homeless-Day’, where homeless people get the chance to come to our school to eat, get a medical check up and talk to psychologists
->Teamcaptain of the school’s field hockey team, got at national finals twice
->President and founder of the school’s own debating club
->Head boy of the school
->International experience due to a half year exchange to John Abbott College in Canada
->Participant in an ‘almshouse-club’ where we weekly visit older people to talk or play with them</p>
<p>Outside of school:
->Participated twice in a German Model UN which took place in former German Federal Assembly, award for best orator and rhetorician
->Founder of a company (Further information via private message) with 20 employees, annual income over 50000 Euros
->Played Field Hockey for 11 years, in which i won german championship twice
->Acting experience, played in various cinema advertisings
->Participated at the Junior Management School , references for having an outstanding personality and outstanding knowledge
->Internship at a German bank
->(Maybe participation at Harvard Model United Nations, we already applied)</p>
<p>I would really grateful if you guys could give me a realistic feedback!</p>
<p>This is a male field hockey player! Does Brown have a male FH team? (very few US schools do. I thought only in California.) There is a US male national field hockey team that might be interested in you, if internationals are allowed. A friend of mine’s son is on it (never played FH, but did soccer, lacrosse and ice hockey in HS.) They had him train with the women’s team at his college and fly him around the US for games. Brown’s women’s coach would still be a great contact as they would probably love to have you work with /help the team, assuming that there is not a guys team.
Your academic stats look in line, and you have interesting EC and come from “underrepresented” country, so I would say to definitely give Brown an application try.</p>
<p>So you know, you apply to Brown rather than to the IR program (though there’s a spot to write about what concentration you want to pursue).</p>
<p>There’s a lot here, but what you need to think about and make clear is…why are you a good fit for Brown, and why is Brown the best school for you? Since Brown gets to choose between so many excellent applicants, they get to be picky about who to choose, and that’s very important to them.</p>
<p>Thank you for the advices, I’ll try to follow them even though I have the opinion the field hockey thing won’t tip the scales for my Brown application. Still I might contact the Brown’s woman’s coach in order to get information concerning the participation of a male field hockey player at the team in some form of an Assistant Coach (Thank’s BrownAlumnParent)
What I will be focussing now on, even though time is passing rapidly, are the social aspects of my Ec’s.</p>
<p>Once again thank You very much for your competent answers, I’m definetely going to apply for the Class of 2015.</p>
<p>Cheers from Germany</p>
<p>P.S. Sorry for the spelling misstake in the headline; I was typing too fast and didn’t realise that I wouldn’t be able to correct it.</p>
<p>You’ll stand a good chance to be admitted into Brown. Your SATs are high and so are your SAT IIs; however, a 3.8 gpa is just okay. Your ECs are spectacular too.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your wishes, but still I do have another question about the Sat Subject Test which doesn’t really affect the content but my application to Brown. Due to the fact that I will be taking Sat Regular in November and the Subject’s at the beginning of December I fear that I won’t be able to get the results before January 1st. Will it affect my application if I hand in my results two or three weeks after deadline?</p>