<p>Thanks for clicking, now if you'll bear with the below and maybe post something that would be even better. Thanks.</p>
<p>Large Canadian public high school. Sends some to good schools every year.</p>
<p>Marks:
-92%~
-top 1% out of a class of around 700(somewhat sure about this)
-Hardest possible courses (IB diploma candidate)</p>
<p>SAT:
-2230 (800 CR, 730 Math, 700 Writing (7 essay)
-Taking Bio in Oct and literature in Nov</p>
<p>EC's:
-Interact Club VP (11,12)
-Model UN Communications Director & Executive Leadership Core (10,11,12)
-Junior Achievement (start own business)- VP both years (10,11)
-Speech Club -minor awards (11,12)
-Debate Club (10,11,12)
-Newspaper (12)
-Yearbook editor (12)
-Research Project on axon remyelination (11)
-X Country (12)-bad
-Track & Field (11)-worse
-Rugby Club (12)- I try
-Internship at local Health Region during summer (11)
-Volunteered for Lion's Club for a week during the summer (10)</p>
<p>Essay:
-Teacher & counselor said it was great, still working on it</p>
<p>Rec's:
-No idea</p>
<p>I might major in international relations, but I want to explore, hence me wanting to apply to Brown.</p>
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<li>Most of them you seem to have joined relatively not too long ago. Theres no sense of REALLY commitment to anything.</li>
<li>Take out the clubs you joined this year. they are going to seem to adcoms as "resume padding"</li>
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<p>And you dont have any real awards? APS?</p>
<p>id say okay chances are conell. JHU, Midd.</p>
<p>however, its going to have to be reach for extracurricular-emphasizing colleges = the rest</p>
<p>re: mayiplzgovertigo
What if I quite enjoy a club I joined recently? But thanks, I guess I can take some of them out. Also, in Canada, at least where I live, high school goes for 3 years, from grade 10-12. And no, I am extraordinarily undistinguished. The only exam result I have is a 6 in IB Math SL.</p>
<p>re: Gaffe
Male & Canadian. Yes, I do realize that it is excessive, and I am going to narrow my list down; the only school I am applying to for sure is Brown. I do need some financial aid, but not a lot.</p>
<p>Tufts has one of the largest international student bodies out there and their international relations program is tops, alongside Georgetown's which you might want to consider as well. It's not a match, but a reasonable reach like JHU and Midd. Tufts Syndrome is an outdated concept -- look at the stats of accepted students -- they have a higher SAT average than Columbia's and Upenn's acceptees! (Just food for thought.)</p>
<p>Your GPA is very low for those schools, even though you must to either a ultra-competitive/rigorous high school or a badly funded/low-achieving high school to get top 1% with a 92. At my school in order to be in the top 10% you need a 95+ avg. The top 1% have perfect 100 averages; they never got a question wrong in their life.</p>
<p>Your EC's are ok. Nothing that stands out, but they are adequate.</p>
<p>Perhaps Canada doesn't inflate grades as much as the US. Not sure, but could be a possibility.</p>
<p>As for EC's, I hope you joined them because you actually like them, not to impress colleges, because there is nothing worse in my opinion than someone trying to blatantly build a resume. Then again, colleges are suckers.</p>
<p>my school isn't exactly Eton, but it's decent. to give you a very rough idea of what the class average for most courses are like, an 80%+ is an A in my province. for most of my ec's, i joined for fun or because i was interested. for my athletics, i joined for CAS hours for the IB diploma</p>
<p>If you like Dartmouth, Williams and Middlebury you should look into Colgate, Colby, Hamilton and Bucknell as similar schools that are somewhat safer bets with someone in the top 1%, 1530 SAT.</p>