<p>So I kinda love Brown and I know that these threads are reallyyy pointless and all, but I want to get some input from people who also love Brown! </p>
<p>I’m applying RD because I’m afraid of commitment!!! </p>
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<p>I am a white female from Maryland hoping to major in cognitive neuroscience. </p>
<p>STATS
- [li] UW GPA: 4.00.[/li][li] W GPA: 4.81.[/li][li] W Rank: 2/334.[/li][li] SAT I: 800 CR, 800 M, 790 W.[/li][li] SAT II: 750 Math IIC (for the luls), 780 Literature, 590 French (but I retook it just to prove to myself that I could do better; I’m hoping for that 600!), Chem and Physics to be taken next month.[/li][li] APs: 5s on Comp Sci A, Calculus AB, English Language, World History; 4s on US Govt & Politics, Comp Sci AB.
<p>COURSEWORK</p>
<p>Most rigorous courseload available, I’d say! Senior schedule:<br>
[ul][<em>] AP English 12 (basically English Lit).
[</em>] AP Chemistry.
[<em>] AP Psychology.
[</em>] AP Biology.
[<em>] AP French.
[</em>] AP Calculus BC.
[li] GT Intern/Mentorship: For a course credit, I spend 5+ hours a week with my mentor, a professor of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. It’s reallyyy interesting! 
I will be completing a year-long research project.[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>SCHOOL-SPONSORED EXTRACURRICULARS
[ul][li] Information Technology Academy (9, 10, 11, 12). Secretary. Plan, oversee, and participate in technology-related events (personally, I do computer programming competitions.)[/li][li] Art Club (10, 11, 12). Co-president. Create art projects in the school and community![/li][li] Math Team (10, 11, 12). You knowww.[/li][li] PCs4Kids (11). This was unexpectedly discontinued this year. 
But it was a really worthwhile program – we donated computers to needy students in the community and had mentoring sessions in which we taught them how to use them.[/li][li] National Honor Society (11, 12). We do stuff, I promise. 4+ hours community service a month required. [/li][li] French National Honor Society (11, 12). Nous sommes cultivés et sophistiqués! Just kidding. Uhm, we do service and fun cultural things throughout the year.<br>[/li][li] National Art Honor Society (11, 12). We do art projects in the communityyyy.[/li][li] Some other stuff that I mention on my full resume but not on the CommonApp: Photo Club (9, 10); Literary Magazine (9, 10). And hmm… I don’t think that I’ll mention that I plan to do Sci Olymps and Chemathon this year, since it’s not something I’ve actually done yet, but I totally do plan to participate, JUST FOR YOUR INFORMATION LOYAL THREAD READER!<br>[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>OTHER EXTRACURRICULARS
[ul][li] A few times a year, starting 4th grade: Volunteer at an inner-city Baltimore school: work with the students (reading to/with them, doing math flash cards) or in the building (helped create a parents’ lobby designed to increase parental involvement in the school; help organize the library.[/li][li] Summer 2007: Participated in Summer College at University of Delaware, a five-week residential program; took two for-credit classes: ART 130 (Drawing I: Tools and Techniques) (A) and COMM 350 (Public Speaking) (A-).[/li][li] Summer 2008: Spent two weeks at Brown University for the Summer@Brown program; took ‘Nervous System Function in Health and Disease’ and finished with a 91.5%![/li][/ul]</p>
<p>AWARDS</p>
<p>Nothin’ amazing.</p>
<p>[ul][<em>] Princeton Book Award (six winners in the Greater Baltimore area of ~80 nominees).
[</em>] AP Scholar with Distinction.
[<em>] NMSF.
[</em>] MD Distinguished Scholar.
[<em>] Individual award for high score on multiple-choice portion of ACSL international competition 2006.
[</em>] Nominated for NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing contest (three nominees at my school); didn’t get it lul (none of us did! They hate our school. :().
[<em>] Recipient of “Sophomore English Student of the Year” department award.
[</em>] Honor societies, Honor Roll, etc.! EXCELLENT, I KNOW.[/ul]</p>
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<p>My CommonApp essay is about how I like death metal (here is the first line: “INTESTINES EXPOSED BY VIOLENT THRUSTS! THE INNARDS REMOVED, DISSECTING THE GUTS!”), and I also have an essay written about my interest in neuroscience! I think they’re decent but not mindblowing, and the people who have read them say that they will be memorable. </p>
<p>I have three recs: one from my French teacher, who knows me really well (this is my third year having her); one from my English teacher, who also knows me well (this is my second year having her) but is somewhat ambivalent toward me and rated me precisely between top 1% and top 5% overall ([I</a> love my life](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061097538-post2.html]I”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061097538-post2.html)); and one from my Bio teacher, who doesn’t know me very well but I have her this year and had her freshman year for GT Bio. Should be decent, though, since I have like a 105 in her class, which is reputedly the hardest class in the school! </p>
<p>YEAH THIS IS REALLY LONG I’M SORRY MAYBE I JUST LIKE TALKING ABOUT MYSELF. </p>
<p>Thank you for reading.</p>