<p>Ok so I have recently fell in love with brown the only problem is my grades from freshman to first semester junior year are pretty terrible(a mix of b’s and c’s and a couple a’s). I am taking a post graduate year to try and make up as much ground as possible but its not going to get me to what an average brown applicant would look like so I am just wondering if you guys think there is even a chance of me still getting in. This is what I am hoping my application will look like at the end of high school.</p>
<p>Freshman year:2.6gpa
Sophomore year:2.8gpa
Junior year First semester:3.0
Junior Second semester:3.4
Senior Year First Semester:3.67
Senior year second semester:4.33
PG year:4.33</p>
<p>cumulative should look around: 3.33</p>
<p>ACT/SAT: haven’t taken but hoping for 32/33 or 2150/2200</p>
<p>Extracurricular:
Volunteer at local elementary school about 70 hours
Guide dog for the blind volunteer: about 80 hours
summer service trip about 60 hours
Ski and snowboard club at my school
President of students for free tibet chapter
Sugar Bowl Snowboard Team member
Going to do either debate or mock trial
was on football team freshman and sophomore year but had knee surgery twice
Golf team
AT my PG year would like to do acapella but dont know if I am a good enough singer.
Model UN
Would like to join leadership at my pg year but don’t if If I can.</p>
<p>Awards: Honor T,Base Ap scholar, Presidents Medal(hopefully)</p>
<p>Bear in mind some of this stuff hasn’t happened yet but I think I can do them. Any advice on what would help my application is welcome</p>
<p>Well honestly its extremely low. You may have a chance if you perform well at a state college. But as is your going to be hard pressed to get in many high-end private schools (not impossible though) let alone ivy league.</p>
<p>Well… if your open too staying in school for a while the only real way to improve your chances is go to the best school that accepts you and increase your GPA substantially. And MAKE SURE you have ATLEAST a 3.70 or better in your desired subject\major Then move on to ivyleague if possible (note that you may not get into brown, but you may get into one of the other ivyleague colleges, be open to going into other ivyleagues. Also you stand a great chance at getting into almost any school)</p>
<p>“I fell in love with Brown”: your first mistake</p>
<p>“cumulative should look around: 3.33” </p>
<p>John: there’s no escaping the fact that you’re proposing applying to some of the most competitive schools extant and yet the single most important evaluative factor you possess is a std deviation or two below the mean. You really have next to no chance whatsoever with a school as competitive as Brown. </p>
<p>I’m not trying to be mean but to steer you to utilize your time (and money) wisely. Skip the PG year and use it at the best college possible.</p>
<p>im not just doing the pg year in order to get into a better college i am using it to gain a year of maturity so that i wont drop out of college when i get there strengthening my transcript is an added benefit but thank u for your opinion.</p>
<p>could you give me some examples that would be very helpful. I am still going to apply just for the hell of it but I would really like to hear what some of these schools are.</p>
<p>Again, “hoping.”
Sorry, you aren’t getting in. </p>
<p>Even if you had a life changing story, or a tragedy in your life that may have had an affect on your grades, no chance; those only work with a one semester flop (two at most).</p>
<p>ok well i will live i would love to hear some of your guys suggestions except UCschoolstfw you might want to work on your delivery when delivering bad news you came off a little rude i am sure you didn’t mean to be but that was just how it sounded but thank u guys for taking time out of ur day to help me out.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, I may have been a little rough.
Many people don’t get into Brown even if they’re at the top of their class. You don’t get into an ivy unless you deserve to get into an ivy. Whether you love the campus or not is irrelevant. If that were true, we’d all be getting into HPY schools.</p>
<p>Ultimablade…again…please check your facts. The Ivy League schools take VERY few transfer students…very few. Princeton takes NONE. The %age of transfer applicants accepted is extremely low…and the applicants accepted are at the top of their game.</p>
<p>Also, your advice to this student about UNC would only be helpful if he is an instate student. Admissions for OOS students is highly competitive.</p>