<p>Decision:</p>
<p>SAT/ACT:</p>
<p>GPA/Rank:</p>
<p>ECs (Rate them 1-10):</p>
<p>Perceived hooks:</p>
<p>Other info:</p>
<p>[ size=+1][ color=green][ b]Decision: [ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT:
[ *] SAT IIs:
[ *] GPA:
[ *] Rank:
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (if any):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>
<p>..or that lol</p>
<p>you should probably take out teacher recs and counselor recs...even essays too..all very subjective</p>
<p>eh i dunno it's tradition to have em :P</p>
<p>and the rating ECs thing is pretty subjective too...</p>
<p>how bout let's just do:</p>
<p>ACT/SAT/SAT IIs:
GPA/Rank:
School Type: Private or Public
Major Activities/Awards:
Location:
Ethnicity:
Other Factors/Potential Hooks:
General Comments:</p>
<p>or let's not do anything at all and just say our decision</p>
<p>I think the traditional way is best, personally.</p>
<p>The format only works if you remove all the spaces.</p>
<p>The format only works if you remove all the spaces. Try using this one. All you need to do is take out every open space at the at the start of each bracketed item.</p>
<p>[ size=+1][ color=brown][ b]Decision [ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT Verbal:
[ *]SAT Math:
[ *]SAT Writing:
[ *]SAT Total:
[ *]SAT II:
[ *]ACT:
[ *]AP/IB taken/scores:
[ *]GPA weighted:
[ *]GPA unweighted:
[ *]Rank or % estimate:</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays:
[ *]Teacher Recs:
[ *]Counselor Rec:
[ *]Hook (if any):</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *]State or Country:
[ *]School Type:
[ *]Ethnicity:
[ *]Gender:
[ *]Legacy Yes/No:
[ *]Recruited Yes/No:
[ *]Important ECs:</p>
<p>[ /list]**Other Factors:[ /b]</p>
<p>[ b]General Comments/Congratulations/etc:[ /b]</p>
<p>Acceptedddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Omg.</p>
<p>Good Luck To Everyone.</p>
<p>Accepted!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT Verbal: 800
[</em>]SAT Math: 700
[<em>]SAT Writing: 710
[</em>]SAT Total: 2210
[<em>]SAT II: Math 2C:790 World History:760 Physics:730
[</em>]AP/IB taken/scores: 5: World, US, Calc BC, Eng Lang, Human Geo; 4: Physics C: Mechanics; 2: Physics C: E&M
[<em>]GPA weighted: 3.9
[</em>]GPA unweighted: 4.3
[li]Rank or % estimate: 5/205</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Very good, worked a long time on them
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Very good, teachers knew me very well
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Not sure, counselor knew me but not that well
[</em>]Hook (if any): Science-heavy ECs</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>]State or Country: California
[</em>]School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: South Asian
[</em>]Gender: Male
[<em>]Legacy Yes/No: Yes
[</em>]Recruited Yes/No: No
[li]Important ECs: Astronomy/Physics Club, Academic Decathlon</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:
A great interview, but I don't know how much that actually mattered.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
VERY excited!!</p>
<p>*Deffered *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT Verbal: 710
[</em>]SAT Math: 790
[<em>]SAT Writing: 800
[</em>]SAT Total: 2300
[<em>]SAT II: Math Level 2 - 800; Biology M - 710
[</em>]GPA weighted:4.3
[<em>]GPA unweighted:3.7
[</em>]Rank or % estimate:36/960</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Does anyone even put "bad" here?
[</em>]Teacher Recs: good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: good
[</em>]Hook (if any): National Guild of Piano Teachers High School Diploma</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>]State or Country: California
[</em>]School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>]Gender: male
[<em>]Legacy Yes/No: no
[</em>]Recruited Yes/No: no
[li]Important ECs: 11 years piano, 3 years debate, 207 hrs community service @ hospital</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:
I applied ED to PLME and did not check the ED box for regular undergrad.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
Disappointed at the fact that I have to keep trying. lol</p>
<p>*Accepted *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT Verbal: 790
[</em>]SAT Math: 800
[<em>]SAT Writing: 800
[</em>]SAT Total: 2390
[li]SAT II: Math Level 2: 800, Chemistry: 790, Biology M: 800</p>[/li]
<p>[<em>]AP/IB taken/scores: Chemistry: 5, Calculus BC: 5, Biology: 5
[</em>]GPA weighted: 4.7
[<em>]GPA unweighted: 4.0
[</em>]Rank or % estimate: 1/492</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>]Essays: they're fine
[</em>]Teacher Recs: fine
[<em>]Counselor Rec: fine
[</em>]Hook (if any): many health-care oriented EC's</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>]State or Country: Georgia
[</em>]School Type: Private
[<em>]Ethnicity: African American
[</em>]Gender: male
[<em>]Legacy Yes/No: no
[</em>]Recruited Yes/No: no
[li]Important ECs: 50 hours cancer research at Stanford University (before I moved), 4 weeks volunteer in Myanmar with Doctors without Borders, worked at hospital, 900 hours total community service, 13 years piano (many competitions), semifinalist in Lincoln-Douglas debate at California State Speech Championship (again, before I moved), was captain of debate team</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:
Applied ED to PLME. Did not check ED box for reg. undergrad.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
W00T!!</p>
<p>could you guys even enter which department you were accepted to.</p>
<p>Entering "what department you were accepted to" wouldn't mean a whole lot. When you get into Brown, you're at Brown, period. Well... except for the PLME's...</p>
<p>*Accepted *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT Verbal: 700
[</em>]SAT Math: 780
[<em>]SAT Writing: 680
[</em>]SAT Total: 2160
[<em>]SAT II: Physics 800; Math 2 800; Literature 680; World History 600
[</em>]ACT:
[<em>]AP/IB taken/scores: not available, but taken hardest class possible
[</em>]GPA weighted: NA
[<em>]GPA unweighted: 9.56 out of 10
[</em>]Rank or % estimate: top 10%</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>]Essays:very creative, showed lots of other parts of me
[</em>]Teacher Recs: excellent, full of examples, showed how I improved my teacher's classes
[<em>]Counselor Rec: excellent, I've known my counselor since kindergarten (she's like my second mother), she wrote a lot of stuff(again, only with illustrations)
[</em>]Hook (if any): Tens of prizes in national and international contests and Olympiads in Physics, Member of the National Physics Team (top 20 students in country)</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>]State or Country: Romania
[</em>]School Type: Public (ranking 1st in Romania)
[<em>]Ethnicity:Caucasian
[</em>]Gender:Male
[<em>]Legacy Yes/No:No
[</em>]Recruited Yes/No:No
[li]Important ECs:[/li]Assistant teacher at my high-school, training best students for Olympiads (had results- record number of participants, classes i taught ranked first in Romania),
Member of a metal music promoting group, organized weekly concerts with 300+ participants, started a metal festival series in Romania, wrote about how we had to deal with the church and conservative society, cause our concerts were getting banned all the time :D )
Member of several Physics Training Programs
International Research Project (with cosmic rays and stuff), top universities and laboratories around Europe participated, I lead one of the 3 experiments)
Electric Guitar,self-taught, offer guitar lessons (5$/lesson :D )</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[<em>]Second time I applied to Brown (but didn't retake any tests)
[</em>]Had a second interview with the same person. He was really impressed with kids from my school last year, that he pointed it out the adcoms..really think this helped)
[<em>]I'm currently on a gap year
[</em>]Intended major: Physics (and had lots to support this)
[li]Applied for fin aid, but offered about 12.000$ per year. This a huuuge sum for someone from Romania (most offer like about 500), so this helped a lot (I'd say about 30% of the result)[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT Verbal: 800
[</em>]SAT Math: 710
[<em>]SAT Writing: 800
[</em>]SAT Total: 2310
[<em>]SAT II: Math IIC 800, USHist 800. Lit 740
[</em>]ACT: 35
[<em>]AP/IB taken/scores: erhm...6 APs that were 5s, 1 3 (physics, bleh...), Math SL 6, Psych SL 6, Physics SL 4
[</em>]GPA weighted: 4.92
[<em>]GPA unweighted: 3.97
[</em>]Rank or % estimate: top 5% </p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>]Essays: good, I suppose. My parents said they liked it. I can't judge my own writing
[</em>]Teacher Recs: one great, one pretty good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: really good (I made it a point to get to know my counselor)
[</em>]Hook (if any): Research? TASP? My inherent awesomeness? haha</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>]State or Country: Florida
[</em>]School Type: large public high school with IB program (hence the number of tests I have)
[<em>]Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>]Gender:F
[<em>]Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>]Recruited Yes/No: No
[li]Important ECs: Um...Research, Arts in Medicine (piano), Lit Magazine, Badminton, Forensics. Also, in summer of 10th I took classes at Univ. Florida and for 5 years was a volunteer at a museum summer camp. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: I applied to PLME ED</p>
<p>Other: I have no idea how I got in. :D Actually, a girl from my school got in last year RD, but she was a future-national-leader type person who was a legacy who got into every single school she applied to. I wonder if that helped at all. I'm just too excited right now to do much...:3</p>
<p>ACCEPTED ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT Verbal: 740
* SAT Math: 800
* SAT Writing: 700
* SAT Total: 2220
* SAT II: Math IIC: 800; BioM 720, MathIC 740, USH 690 Chem 690 Chinese 800
* AP/IB taken/scores: Bio-5, USH - 4
* GPA weighted: 4.36
* GPA unweighted: 4.01
* Rank or % estimate: Top decile out of 355 students
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: Unique. Why Brown essay was excellent.
* Teacher Recs: Only read one, and i didn't think that onte was too good.
* Counselor Rec: Not sure, didn't read it.
* Hook (if any): girl in computer science, skipped a grade, lots of leadersihp
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country NY
* School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Chinese
* Gender: Female
* Legacy Yes/No: No
* Recruited Yes/No: No
* Important ECs: Science Research, a webpage I started, lots of layout/computer e/cs, uhhh.... track, newspaper, violin, etcetcetc.
</code></pre>
<p>Other Factors:
I have no clue. Just the general uniqueness of my application i guess</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
Whoever is reading this, i just want to say that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. I never thought I could get into brown, cause of my SAT IIs, but those little things don't matter if you play your strengths, and that's exactly what i did. </p>
<p>i'm still in so much shock. i mean when i wrote my 'why brown' essay i could def see myself there, but HOLY CRAP now im going there in about eight months. it's so amazing, and pretty ahrd to take in.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone else who was accepted, and if you were deferred, you get another chance. and this time you can make your choice amongst your colleges.</p>
<p>best of luck :)</p>
<p>Deffered </p>
<p>Stats:
SAT Verbal: 700
SAT Math: 730
SAT Writing: 720
SAT Total: 2150
SAT II: Lit: 680 Physics: 630
GPA weighted:3.7 or something? my school doesn't really weight them
GPA unweighted:3.4
Rank or % estimate:school doesn't rank, really hard to estimate.</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: I loved mine, but it was really off-beat so who knows
Teacher Recs: i hope they were good
Counselor Rec: she loves me, i assume great
Hook (if any): Girl for electrical engineering, also I play the mandolin, but I guess these aren't "Hooks" if I got deferred, right?</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: New Jersey
School Type: Public Magnet
Ethnicity: White
Gender: female
Legacy Yes/No: Nope
Recruited Yes/No: nope
Important ECs: Mandolin ensemble, NJ guitar and mandolin society, first place national battlebots team, other engineering credentials, photography portfolio, 200+ community service hours, 2-year part time job, 2 internships, ACLU, president/founder of the photography club.</p>
<p>Other Factors:
I sent them a pretty intensive photography portfolio, and I had a postive grade trend going on.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
Not "suprised" that I got deferred, my GPA and SAT 2's were nothing to brag about. I guess getting deferred from an ivy league school is actually... pretty awesome! I'm comfortable with the results, and a little bit relieved that the waiting is over. congratulations to everyone who got accepted!</p>
<p>Deferred for PLME</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<p>ACT: 35
AP/IB taken/scores:AP Chem (4), AP Euro (4), taking AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, AP Lit, AP US, and AP Bio
GPA weighted:4.5
GPA unweighted:3.8
Rank or % estimate: top 5%</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: I thought they were really good
Teacher Recs: didn't read
Counselor Rec: didn't read
Hook (if any): not really</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: South Carolina
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Asian Indian (dammit!)
Gender:Male
Legacy Yes/No: No
Recruited Yes/No: No
Important ECs: 250 hours of colon cancer research, 400 hours of community service (doctor's lab, hospital, etc), an assload of state/national math awards, tennis</p>
<p>Other Factors: eh not really, i sent in my art portfolio and my research abstract</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: ****ed, but i guess i was still sorta expecting deferral...:( Anyways, congrats on those who did get in, hopefully i see you guys next year! :)</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT Verbal:740
[</em>]SAT Math:700
[<em>]SAT Writing:720 (12)
[</em>]SAT Total: 2160
[<em>]SAT II:Math IC: 730 Lit: 650 Spanish: 610
[</em>]AP/IB taken/scores: English Lit - 5 , AP Chem Calc AB and Physics this year
[<em>]GPA weighted: 4.88/5
[</em>]GPA unweighted:4.02/4.33
[li]Rank or % estimate: 8/242</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Good and well written
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Don't know
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Don't know
[</em>]Hook (if any): URM, Athlete/Dancer, Aunt and Uncle alums</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>]State or Country: NJ
[</em>]School Type: Parochial
[<em>]Ethnicity: Puerto Rican and Cuban
[</em>]Gender: M
[<em>]Legacy Yes/No: Kinda
[</em>]Recruited Yes/No: No
[li]Important ECs: Dance, Football, Basketball, Baseball, NHS President</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: ....Sweet</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Stats:
(ok...my scores absolutely suck...)
SAT Verbal:660
SAT Math:640
SAT II: none (took ACT)
AP/IB taken/scores: AP Govt.:5 AP World:4 also taking AP Lit/AP Calc BC/AP Pysc
GPA weighted: 4.6
GPA unweighted:4.0
Rank or % estimate: 3/610</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: ok
Teacher Recs: amazing
Counselor Rec: Don't know
Hook (if any): 3rd in the state for cross country</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: MD
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: F
Legacy Yes/No: No
Recruited Yes/No: YES
Important ECs: cross country, track, editor of newspaper, NHS, national latin society<br>
Other Factors:</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: YAYY!
Congrats to everyone who got in!</p>