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<p>Sex: Female
Race: White
Ethnicity: Russian
Major: English or double major in English and Economics
Career goal: Lawyer
High School: Located in NYC, public. Some graduates go to good schools (Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern). A lot end up in the CUNY system.</p>

<p>GPA: 97/100. - Estimation. I haven’t checked after school ended.
Class Rank: 2/120 - Might be 1st or close to 1st. </p>

<p>SAT: 1870 (580CR/630M/670WR)
SAT II: None yet. Might take US History, Math II and I need one more…Suggestions please?</p>

<p>Sophomore year: honors English and Global
Junior year: AP English, AP US History, AP Calc AB, AP Chem
Senior year: AP Lit, AP Euro, AP Bio
-I basically will end up taking all the APs in my school except for Spanish</p>

<p>Notable EC’s
NHS, Student Body VP, Science Olympiad, Brain Bee Competition, School Leadership Team, Handball, Model City Council, 100 hours of community service, 120 hours of unpaid internship at a law firm, Academy of Finance. Currently a summer intern at Deutsche Bank.
-Lot more ECs but I can’t remember all of them.</p>

<p>Letters/Essay
Recs: Should be good.
Essay: Should be good.</p>

<p>Schools interested in:
Ivies: Dartmouth, Cornell, Yale, Columbia
Top tier schools: Amherst, Swarthmore, Hamilton, Pitzer, NYU, Macaulay Honors - Hunter, Barnard, Vassar
Safties: Gettysburg, SUNY Bing, SUNY Stonybrook</p>

<p>Additional Info:
Middle income
Only took SAT once, expect an improvement
Brother going to college in the Fall
Parents didn’t go to college in the US.</p>

<p>Chances? Any input would be greatly appreciated! Also…please give me other colleges I should look into. THANKS!</p>

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<p>You really need to get your SAT up to 2100 to be competitive in the Ivies. Your GPA is great but your ECs are unfortunately nothing special compared to others applying. Good luck.</p>

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<p>Er, how do you expect us to suggest what SAT IIs you should take? The point is to do them in whatever you’re best at. If you want to be an English major, perhaps you should consider the Lit one.
And yeah you’re SAT I should rise at least 200 points; seeing as that’s unlikely, I’m not sure. Everything else looks pretty excellent</p>

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<p>Just wondering, grade inflation? I mean you really need to raise that SAT score up. I actually recommend to a 2200 to be competitive.</p>

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<p>Kill the person who’s in first in your class. Then, brag about your competitive spirit, your desire to be first and best in all you do, and your inability to accept defeat. Because everyone knows that being first is the most important thing in life.</p>

<p>Except wait: this is BROWN we’re talking about. =P Please don’t overstress. If you can’t raise your SAT scores, you’re chances aren’t great, but take the ACT. Brown’ll accept the ACT just as readily as the SAT, and it looks like you’re academically strong, so there’s no inherent reason you wouldn’t score well on the ACT. As I’ve told people before: if you consider percentile ranking, I did twice as good on my ACT as on my SAT (i.e. from 90th to 95th percentile). Oh, and if you don’t get in, again, don’t stress. There’s more fish in the sea than Brown, and many people have been extremely happy/succesful/amazing people DESPITE their lack of a Brown education. Hard as it is to believe…</p>