Please chance me for ED!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
1

<p>Hi guys! I’m a senior and Brown has been the dream for a while. What would you say my chances are for ED?</p>

<p>Race: Caucasian
Gender: F
Income: ~150,000
State: New Jersey
GPA: 4.71 (weighted, school has yet to offer unweighted but I’d assume it’s ~3.9) (upward trend)
Rank: 2/326
ACT: 35 (35/33/36/36 12 essay)
SAT: didn’t take, but got a 217 on the PSAT
SAT II: taking Lit, US History, and Math II next month, expecting >700 on each
Intended Concentration: International relations!</p>

<p>12th grade schedule:
AP Calc AB
AP English Lit
AP Macroeconomics
AP World History
AP Government
Spanish 4H
Concert Choir H (4th consecutive year)</p>

<p>AP Scores: 5 on APUSH, 5 on Lang, 3 on Bio (ew)</p>

<p>ECs:
Model UN – 4 years – President last year and this year, VP my sophomore year. I’ve attended 8 conferences and received 8 awards. My school’s team is hosting our conference this year after 2 years of preparation. I’ve also attended one Mock Congress conference just for fun!
Executive Student Council President – 2 years (VP last year) – I organize all schoolwide events, do the announcements every day, and attend all BOE meetings as the student rep for my township, etc etc
Relay for Life Team Captain/Walker – 4 years – student rep for the event this year
School Musical – 4 years – ensemble/dance company roles, lead expected this year
Jazz/chamber choir – 2 years – placed 2nd and 4th at two national competitions
Class of 2015 President – 2 years (freshman and sophomore year)
NHS VP – 2 years – I tutor HS and middle school kids every other week
Mu Alpha Theta – 2 years
Student Liaison at the Teen Coffeehouse in my town – 2 years – I organize open mics and movie nights at least once a month
Published poet – 4 years – published 3 times with Creative Communications, 3 times in print with Teen Ink (11 times online), twice with the Live Poets of NJ
Interned last year with the Longpond Ironworks National Park society – did reenactments and tours of the park, made and distributed informational materials</p>

<p>Awards:
AP Scholar
Commended National Merit Scholar
Scholastic Arts & Writing 2014 Awards: Gold Key & Silver Key for Poetry in the Northeast region at large
NJ Scholars semifinalist</p>

<p>Other:
Took an International Relations course at UMD College Park this past summer as part of the Young Scholars program – got an A (4.0 GPA at UMD)</p>

<p>Common App stuff:
Essay 10/10: my English teacher this year, who is also a prof at NYU and a published author, told me it was perfect; it’s a playful but intellectual account of my relationship with books. I finished it in June and have been tweaking it since then.
Recs: should be good, from my APUSH teacher and AP Lang teachers.
Supplements: have only finished 2/4 but they’re coming along well.</p>

<p>Thank you in advance! Good luck to my fellow seniors applying to Brown ED! xx</p>

2

<p>Bump!</p>

3

<p>Maybe try this to draw responses. Analyze the facts you have presented and draw a conclusion, tentative or not. The tools you can use for analysis are statistics for previous entering classes at Brown and the results threads on this site. Once you get to Brown, hopefully, your performance in practically any class will be based more on analysis than recitation of facts, after all.</p>

4

<p>@fenwaypark‌ Thank you for your response – I have become familiar with admission statistics from recent years and scoured the results threads on CC, but ultimately the results will be unpredictable with a school like Brown! I figured experience chancers might have some input. Of course the university environment is based in analysis, and when my essay is combined with the facts above I hope that will better my chances when my application is holistically analyzed.</p>

5

<p>camminatore, there is no such thing as “experienced chancers.” Those of us who are experienced know that there is no way to accurately chance someone. </p>

<p>You have the stats. You seem to have the ECs – as I’ve mentioned before on this forum, what’s important is what you’ve accomplished within your EC, how you’ve improved or contributed to YOUR community (school, city, church, however you want to define it). You seem like a strong candidate, but many strong candidates get denied for reasons totally outside their control. Good luck.</p>

6

<p>“Experience chancers”, as you call them, may have experience, but none of us knows their accuracy rate. I will venture a guess that none of them is connected to the Brown Admissions Office because they are all too busy with their jobs. From reading (too many) chance threads I have come to the conclusion that chancers are basing their opinions on the same admissions statistics and results threads on CC that you are already familiar with.</p>

<p>I can understand that one possible motivation for starting a chance thread is to seek reassurance in a legitimately stressful situation. And that is fine (subject to any Board rules I guess). But since you know the stats and are familiar with results threads, you already know where you stand.</p>

<p>In an way, I just chanced you. And that is worth about the cyberspace it is printed on. If you have any specific questions, I would be happy to try to help if I can.</p>

<p>EDIT: On second thought, maybe chancers’ accuracy rates are fairly high, because their conclusions are typically stated in terms that cannot be proven wrong, such as “pretty good”, “X%”, “reach”…and so on. Acceptance or rejection, chancers can say their chance predictions were not wrong.</p>

7

<p>Oops – I didn’t intend the words “experienced chancers” to mean Brown admission officers, clairvoyant gurus, or anything of the sort! I more so meant those on CC who are familiar with what qualifies as Ivy and top LAC material, and even then I know stellar applicants get rejected and these chance forums are doomed to be relatively inaccurate. This was only my second post on CC and I wanted to see if there was anything glaring missing from my profile (and get a little reassurance, I admit).</p>

<p>Thank you @fireandrain‌!</p>

<p>@fenwaypark, I do have a couple questions. Are you familiar with the sending transcripts from other universities as part of your application? I have a transcript from UMD and my guidance counselor recommended I send it to Brown however she did could not advise me as to how I would do so. Also, are you a current Brown student? Judging from your post history you seem to be quite knowledgeable about Brown!</p>

8

<p>About sending a transcript from another college, you just ask the registrar at that college to send it to Brown. May have to pay a small fee.</p>

9

<p>I will defer to bruno14’s answer. If there is just a course or two at a college, I have seen these recorded on the high school transcript, but I guess that option is not available in your case.</p>

<p>I advise you not to put too much weight on credentials here. John Brown the tenth could come on the Board and post hooey, while the Thayer St wino might leave us with pearls of wisdom. Take what makes sense.</p>

<p>I am neither of those individuals, nor a Brown student</p>

10

<p>@camminatore

</p>

<p>I don’t thinks so. You look like a viable applicant to me. </p>

<p>I really like the fact that you’ve been tweaking your essay since you finished it in June. I assume you’ve worked just as hard on the rest of the application to give a clear and concise message of who you are and what you’re all about.</p>

<p>Best of Luck! Keep us posted.</p>

11

<p>Thanks @bruno14‌, great suggestion. I just emailed the office of the registrar at UMD so we’ll see how that goes!</p>

<p>Thank you for your kind words @arwarw! My essay is something I’m truly proud of, and I don’t think that’ll change regardless of the rejections I may receive in the coming months. I’ll be sure to post in the results thread come mid-December (:</p>

12

<p>@bruno14‌ you mentioned college courses: i’m currently taking math 233 at unc-ch, but none of our grades have been finalized yet (the course ends in mind-december). however, i’ve already submitted my ED app to brown. should I still ask for the unc registrar to send brown my transcript? thanks! </p>

13

<p>@franciaf‌: No, not if you don’t have any grades yet. That question was from a student who had previously taken college classes.</p>