I'm so worried! Please last chance!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>Although the decisions are coming out next week, I wanted to see what other people thought of my chances of getting into </p>

<p>Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, UPenn, USC, Princeton, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. </p>

<p>So…</p>

<p>Our school doesn’t have a rank, but I am in top 2-3%.
My GPA: 4.3 (weighted)
3.7 (unweighted)
Have taken
6 honors classes, 6 AP classes, and one community college class for extra science course (physics). </p>

<p>I took 3 of the AP classes last year (junior year) and I got
AP Biology: 5
AP Calculus AB: 4
AP US History: 3 (yeah… I know this one is bad… )</p>

<p>My school doesn’t offer AP classes until junior year, and the maximum number of honors classes you can take in Freshman and Sophomore years are total 2 classes. So I don’t really have many APs if excluding senior year. </p>

<p>SAT: Critical Reading- 580 (i’m an international student… this score is really sad… I’m worried…)
Math-690
Writing-770
Total-2030</p>

<p>SAT IIs: Korean-800
math-720
Bio-680 </p>

<p>School Activities (EC):
California Scholarship Federation-4 years/President now
Speech and Debate-3 years/ captain for 2 years
korean club-president at another school, but I moved…
National Honors Society-4 years/ secretary now
Doctors Club-1 year/vice president now
Sudanese Genocide Campaign-I started it in sophomore year and it gradually became a class project, and later school project. It has been going on for 3 years now and I’m
project leader. / I wrote essays about this alot…
Choir- 4 years</p>

<p>Volunteering Activities:
-Teen Program : Worked with students with mental/physical disabilities 5 days a week for a year before I moved to current school
-Have Volunteered at a Stanford Children Hospital for 3 years (ever since I moved…)
( i want to be pediatrician later on…)
-volunteer at Loaves & Fishes every summer </p>

<p>Awards:
-Principal Honor Roll
-National Honor Roll
-San Jose Chorale Silver Award
-Le Grand Concours
-AP Scholar Award </p>

<p>I sent 2 teacher recs (one bio teacher, another english teacher since my major is bio) and one extra from my advisor at Stanford Children Hospital. </p>

<p>so that’s it… since my SAT score is so low, I hope that colleges will see my volunteer stuffs and ecs more… But what do you think?</p>

<p>Today, I already got declined by northwestern, U chicago, and duke.
I’m really really really worried!!! so please be honest!!</p>

<p>THANK YOU!!</p>

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<p>Likelihood: (out of 10)</p>

<p>Dartmouth 4
Brown 5
Cornell 6
UPenn 4
USC 7
Princeton 3
Stanford 3
Johns Hopkins 5</p>

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<p>what have you been accepted to yet?</p>

<p>and what safeties are you waiting for responses from?</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t say that’s accurate at all. You’ve got a fighting chance, daseuli_, but certainly nowhere near the numbers above.</p>

<p>Take a deep breath. Relax. You’ve got as good a shot as anyone, and remember: it’s a crapshoot. People get rejected from Tufts and accepted to HYP. Stats don’t mean a thing.</p>

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<p>Did you need financial aid? Of all the schools you applied to, only Dartmouth and Princeton are need-blind for international students. Which means schools like Brown may not accept you simply because they don’t have the financial aid budget to afford you.</p>

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<p>^I have a feeling she’s a US student, fireandrain. She mentions that she’s in San Jose.</p>

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<p>Stats don’t mean a thing.-- that is not true in any way. Of course stats mean everything, esp GPA. Colleges love a high GPA and yours is great. Look forward to a good 2-4 acceptances, give or take a few… better chances that me thats for sure</p>

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<p>^Yea stats don’t matter THAT much anymore. If you have a solid one, it already shows you’re capable of doing work at the university. </p>

<p>Aka it’s not like you’ll be learning some kind of alien math/coding/science at MIT vs. “normal” human college stuff at your flagship public, e.g. Berkeley and UMich.</p>