I am in my senior year right now and Brown is my top choice. I am planning to apply under ED. Do you think I have a good chance of getting in? I don’t think I have that big of a shot because I feel none of my ECs are extremely impressive.
Info:
- Citizenship: Canada
- GPA: our school doesn’t do GPA or any equivalent rankings, but definitely in top 15% or 10% for junior year and sophomore year (note: our school does have a strict marking system; for instance, some universities that only admit students with a 96 average admit students with 93.5s or 94s at our school and many universities know this)
- Ethnicity: Asian
- APs I have taken: English Lang, Chemistry, Stats, Calc AB (Canadian schools do not offer a lot of APs in general and not many students choose to take many AP classes)
- APs I will take this year: English Lit, Bio, Macro, Micro, Calc BC, Environmental science (self-study perhaps)
- Senior year course load: AP lit, AP calc, AP macro, AP micro, AP bio, French (not AP)
- Concentration/areas of study: chemistry but undecided for the second possible concentration
- Recommendation letters: one from chem teacher (she really liked me), one from french teacher (also really liked me and said i was one of the strongest students in the class), and one from probably my fencing coach, as well as a guidance councillor recommendation (she knows me pretty well and I have talked to her about where I want to apply)
Test scores:
ACT: score isn’t ready yet (took the September 2017 one) but expecting a 32/33 at least (did write the ACT twice before but score was not good)
SAT II: Math II (780), Chem (730); retaking Chem in October
APs: Stats - 5, Chem - 5, English lang - 4, calc - 4; earned AP scholar with distinction award
Summer program: only attended one summer program and it was the summer @ brown program during the summer before junior year; took a course in bacteriology
- spent my past summer training in fencing for an important upcoming national selection event
Extracurriculars and leadership positions:
- Ambassador at school (junior year, senior year; mentor leader this year and leads a team of 8 students and plan meetings, etc)
- Chinese association of private independent schools in my area: (sophomore, junior, senior year; was a school coordinator during sophomore year, junior year head of events department, the list of leadership positions hasnt been finalized for this year yet) – we support an organization in rural areas of China annually fundraising through organizing talent shows and other events
- Service leadership council at school (freshman, sophomore, junior year; house representative during sophomore and junior year and was the project leader for a few initiatives) – as a council we organize fundraising events throughout the school and support a community in Mali every year
Volunteer Experience:
- Math tutor at a local elementary school for students from grade 3 to grade 6 (sophomore and junior year)
Athletics:
- Fencing (haven’t been fencing for very long, but qualified for international competitions for the U17 age group however did not go due to very personal reasons; haven’t had lots of very impressive results); however I do spend most of my time on fencing
Others:
- Three time school champion for a national mathematics contest my school writes every year (freshman, sophomore, junior year; we haven’t wrote the contest for this year yet); top 25% nationally for every contest I have written and was on the honour role with distinction a few times
- School champion for a national chemistry contest and earned an outstanding achievement award (junior year)
Leave your comments below and I would appreciate it! If you have any suggestions for schools I should give a shot for EA or RA please also leave them below in the comments section!
(please be honest!!!)