Do I Have A Shot For Ivs

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>Alright, so for stats: I have a weighted 4.72 GPA, unweighted it is 4.0. I am the founder of Project Agape: a community service project where the youth group from our church goes out and makes lunches every saturday and distributes them to the homeless in different cities the next day.
I am ranked second in the nation for speech and debate.
Sat: 2090 and I’m retaking in october
SAT II Math: 750
SAT II Chem: 720
SATII Bio/m: 680</p>

<p>ACT: 30, don’t know writing yet, but retaking. </p>

<p>i have 1,500 hours of community service.
Model UN, 3 years FBLA, 3 years Chess Club, Lions international speech competition top 4 speakers, UC Berkley Congress Debate Champion, Santa Clara Lincoln Douglas Debate Champion, Captain of debate team, California Rotary club speech champion. Quarter-finalist at Catholic nationals- junior year. Top 10 at NFL nationals- softmore year.
National finalist, national debate qualifier for 3 years, state qualifier for 3 years, top 5 at states in ld debate, semied softmore and junior years in speech at state championships. Names Speaker of the year for two years running in the Sacramento NFL Valley Speech and Debate Forensic league.
Speak 3 languages fluently. I’m greek.
Teach coptic (like latin) language and hymnology.
top deacon at church,
AP calc- 5
AP BIO- 5
AP CHEM- 5
AP EURO-5
AP ART HISTORY-4 </p>

<p>Schedule for this year: AP language and composition, Ap government, Teach intern, speech and debate, Ap physics, AP psychology, and ROP on job medical training course.</p>

<p>I work at starbucks- 20 hours/week</p>

<p>Do i have a shot for Brown’s PMLE, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, maybe Harvard?
Please tell me why or why not and what I can do better.</p>

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<p>PLME, all I can tell you is that it will really really depend on your essays/interview.</p>

<p>You don't really have much "medical" or science stuff on your ECs though, although community service does help. Remember, for PLME, it's not about your stats, it's how much you want to become a doctor.</p>

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Do I have a shot for IVs

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<p>Not if you spell it like that ... they'll be too busy laughing.</p>

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<p>Yeah, when you have an IV drip you need to get a shot first.</p>

<p>HOLY CRAP I'M HILARYUS!!111 LOL</p>

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<p>It is difficult to tell from that post what your community service is. It is not about compiling hours but showing passion and commitment for a particular thing or things. Were there one or two that you were passionate about and where you took on some type of leadership or special involvement? If so, I would highlight that.
Debate seems to be the thing you excell at and are passionate about on your application, so that is a plus. However there will be others who apply to these schools who excell in that area. In your short answer you can write about that activity if you feel it is your most important extra curricular, but I would use the personal statement to convey to admission officers who you are and why you are different from the other applicants.
You will definitely need to get your SAT scores up to be more competitive. If you had a very unusual talent or accomplishment this might compensate for the lower scores, but short of that you need to try to increase those scores. If you can get your scores up so they are more competitive and can write an interesting essay and highlight your community service in a way to show it has meaning to you, then your chances of getting accepted will increase.</p>

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<p>Collegebound, do colleges look favorably to community service that was completed at church? Many of the activities are church sponsered, but are community outreach. Also, I would like to elaborate on how I achieved all the hours, so should I sent a supplement resume with the application, or do most colleges not accept that?</p>

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<p>Need to boost the SAT</p>

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<p>of course you have a shot at the ivies. it sounds like you're an amazing at debate. I have to agree though, boosting the SAT up a little more would help.</p>

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<p>Smartsport Yes, colleges look very favorably upon your community service at your church. They look favorably at all community service. They like to see applicants who give back to the community. What you need to do is to list your community service on the extra curricular part of the application in a way that highlights your role in that activity and what your involvement is. I know it is not a lot of space. Top colleges like Brown have no problem with an applicant submitting a resume. The thing they dont want to see however is a resume that just reiterates everything that is in the application or is a laundry list of all the clubs, ect the applicant has been in. I would only do a resume if if it adds things that are new. What I do recommend if you think a resume may be redundant but you want to go into more detail about the things on your activity sheet by including another sheet or sheets that provides more information about what you have listed on the extra curricular sheet. You can title it in such a way that admission officers know it is additional information regarding the activity sheet.
Most admission officers look at the activity sheet to get an idea of the 6 or 7 things that are most important to the applicant. If you provide extra detail on a separate sheet or sheets, it can only help you. Either they wont get the chance to really review it, or they will. Either way, it cannot hurt.</p>