Please Chance Me For Brown! :)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>Im currently a rising junior, and college applications are already on the horizon. Its truly terrifying. However, i was hoping some of you guys could tell me if i really stand much of a chance applying to some of these schools. I know there’s really not any safety schools, in fact, there’s mostly reaches! So if anyone can recommend some decent safeties i’d appreciate it! I’m interested in Law and Business, so im thinking about majoring in something related to Business Law. One thing i have to mention is that my gpa isnt as high as it should be because i had a horrible freshman year; i was totally overwhelmed by some of the more difficult classes and thus, ended up with 3.5 uw, 3.83 w gpa, in addition to not doing many EC’s. After that, i really got my act together and started getting very high grades and got much more involved in EC’s. Please chance me for the following schools:</p>

<p>Harvard
Columbia (probably ED, has been my dream school for a while! I’ll apply to Columbia College)
UPenn (Applying to Wharton)
Brown
Princeton
Stanford
Georgetown
NYU (Stern, Dad’s a Stern Legacy)
University of Chicago
Tufts
Williams
Swarthmore</p>

<p>Asian Male from Tri-State Area (Toughest Competition :frowning: )
Unweighted Gpa: 3.85 Weighted Gpa: 4.25
SAT: W(770) CR (730) M (750) = 2250
SAT ll: 2260 Cumulative
Rank : Top 10%
Besides Dad at Stern, No Legacy
Family Income >$150,000
Semi-Competitive Public High in Wealthy Town, Sends about 2 to Ivies, a few to good privates like Amherst, Uof Chicago, BC, Tufts)
No Real Hooks</p>

<p>Senior Schedule: AP Lit, AP Chem, AP Calc AB, AP Spanish, AP Gov’t, PE+ Health (Mandatory) AP Euro, Psychology </p>

<p>UW gpa- 3.5 (9), 4.05 (10) 4.0 (11)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: (Not too strong, but shows commitment)</p>

<p>FBLA - 9,10,11 (VP) 12 (hopefully president)
Debate Team - 10,11 (VP) 12 (hopefully president)
Varsity Swim Team -10,11,12
Varisty Tennis - 10,11,12 (wont show up for 12 because its a spring sport)
Jazz Band Guitarist- 10,11,12
Member of National Honor Society and Tri-M Honor Society (music)
Non-Paid Internship to local law firm </p>

<p>Jobs:
Guitar Teacher to younger children (since summer of grade 10)
Lifeguard in the Summer (since summer of grade 10)</p>

<p>I do consider myself very well rounded, but my problem with EC’s is this: Im good at what i do, but im not nationally ranked for these EC’s. I enjoy everyone of them, but im no recruited athlete, professional musician, or competition winning speaker. However, i think colleges will like that i use my talents (swimming, guitar) to help others. Anyways i hope you guys can help and tell me my chances to these schools that im dying to be accepted to! I’ll try to chance back!</p>

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<p>what’s your passion? the essays seem to have a lot of weight for brown. how can you prove you are not a typical asian? this is what you need to think about, not if some random person on the internet will say, “yeah, you have a chance,” because anyone with your stats has at least some chance so it’s all about essays/rec’s.</p>

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<p>Like i said, i love all of my EC’s, but music is definitely my passion. I forgot to mention one thing though: besides Jazz Band and Guitar lessons, i also founded a charity related to music. It’s not huge or anything but we did raise a decent amount of money. I won’t go into details about the charity, but besides that and the aforementioned lessons and jazz band, i dont have much to show for it. However, im a pretty decent writer so im not too worried about that. I’ll try to convey myself as a person in my essay, but do you think my grades and EC’s are strong enough to stack up against all the other valedictorians with a laundry list of EC’s and awards?</p>

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<p>the music stuff is good, nothing amazing, but if you write well, it should be fine. I see people in the decisions thread who got in and I’m honestly like “how in the world did they ever get in?” Your grades and Ec’s are better than people who have got in so you always have a chance.</p>