GPA:3.85- Weighted- 5.1
ACT- 35- (Got a 36 in science portion)
IB Program
AP- Stats (4) APUSH (4) European (5), AB CALC (4) CHEM (5), Language and Comp (5)
Major- Nuclear Engineering
HOOKS- Hispanic and Frist Generation
Extra Circulars
Sports- Varsity soccer- vice captain- named player of the year
Clubs: NHS , Model UN ( vice president), Science Club (president), Chemistry Club (founder)
Work experience- family restaurant
Community Service: 60 hours at Swedish Covenant Hospital, and 20 hours shadowing a pulmonoligist
Summer activities: took a summer course at Brown university in Chemistry- summer@brown
Awards- AP scholar with distinction, science fair reached nationals twice, honor roll and other little awards like ib students of the moth
applying for fianancial aid
going to apply for brown universitty dean scholarship
Very high. Great all around, and you have the hooks.
So, you’d be about…9%. Because 9% is high for ivy haha
haha, but i think ur looking at browns overall acceptance rate
You look like a competitive applicant, though I don’t see nuclear engineering listed as an undergraduate concentration at Brown.
Nucelear engineering is a degree you can earn at brown
Is it one of these undergraduate engineering concentrations? http://brown.edu/academics/engineering/undergraduate-study/concentrations
Other posters are correct that Brown doesn’t have a “nuclear engineering” concentration. You can get an engineering degree, of course, but you can’t get one in nuclear engineering.
Also, I don’t think there is a University Dean scholarship or any merit scholarships.
Gotta be careful, if your essay says nuclear engineering and they don’t have it, they may think you did not do your homework well
Just googled. Dean’s Scholarships are for the pre-college programs.
So… I guess the chances of studying Nuclear Engineering at Brown under the Dean’s Scholarship aren’t looking so hot.
Where I went to school we had an active nuclear reactor on campus; sometimes staffed with undergrads. It was frightening.
“So… I guess the chances of studying Nuclear Engineering at Brown under the Dean’s Scholarship aren’t looking so hot.”
At least OP is going for it!
Okay in all seriousness though, being Hispanic and First-gen really do help you out in the admissions process (assuming you learn how to spell extracurricular, not extra circular…sigh lol). I think essays for Brown are extremely important (more so than other schools) because if you look at Brown’s SAT admit range, it is lower than other Ivies. But Brown is still very very selective, which means they focus less on SAT and more on other details.
I am almost 100% positive that besides my 4.0 UW, 35 ACT, and good ECs, I would not have gained admission if not for a essay that fit Brown really well. Brown cares about fit a lot. Out of the 20 or so essays I wrote for college adcoms, my Why Brown was probably the best, and I think that’s why I got admission.
And seriously, do your research lol.
Yeah, you look like you have a pretty good shot. That being said, write good essays. I’m hispanic 1st gen as well and I didn’t have nearly as good stats as you when I applied.
You could probably make your own major in Nuclear Engineering if you tried. I think Brown lets you do that. And with the open curriculum, you could probably tailor it however you want.
http://www.brown.edu/academics/college/advising/concentrations/independent
Good luck 