<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.80
GPA - Weighted: 4.30
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 520</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 760
SAT I Critical Reading: 790
SAT I Writing: 800
SAT Total: 2350
SAT II Math Level 1 : 800</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-Chorus
-copresident of GSA
-Theater (i do usually 1 play a year, either acting or working sound)
-Photo Club
-Amnesty International</p>
<p>Volunteer Work: Peer Tutor, Cultural Council Member</p>
<p>Honors and Awards: French Award, Community Service Award</p>
<p>let me know if you need more info to judge, and post a link if you want me to chance you back =)</p>
<p>yeah i agree i think youre pretty much into all of those but browns extremely unpredictable so you never know. your reaches are either high targets or low/mid reaches. youre just as competitive as the next guy if not better</p>
<p>wow, with what you have, aim higher! with a math level 1 score of 800, you could probably get an 800 on the reasoning. try MIT, or harvard, more ivies! idk what your intended major is but all i’d say is very nice app. what you can work on, since you are a junior, is your EC’s. got that, and you are perfect.</p>
<p>you won’t have to worry about your choices! You got it perfect! The universities are of right fit! I think you should aim higher though. Your SAT is scintillatingly brilliant!</p>
<p>I agree with everyone else, you’re definitely in all of you safeties/matches. I would say your good for your reaches as well, except Brown. Brown I would say would be a reach to a high reach, just because your EC’s are a little lacking. In any case, your scores are fantastic! congrats!</p>
<p>thanks for all the feedback! i actually realized today that brown doesn’t teach arabic so i probably won’t apply there, but mainly for swarthmore- do you think the lack of EC’s will still hurt me considering that i live 30 min away from school so it’s not really easy for me to stay after?</p>
<p>I think you can get into all easily, except Swarthmore would be low/mid reach and Brown still being a reach (it’s a reach for 99 percent of people haha). Good luck!!</p>
<p>“do you think the lack of EC’s will still hurt me considering that i live 30 min away from school so it’s not really easy for me to stay after?”</p>
<p>(idk how to quote things)</p>
<p>you may want to put this in the additional info spot on the commonapp.</p>
<p>I think you are correct with your current judgement. Brown and Swarthmore are reaches sure, but you have fair shot. You should be fine with Oberlin, Reed, and Mac. American and Eugene Lang are indeed your safeties.</p>
<p>Your SAT’s are great, and they’re backed up by a good GPA. I think you have a very good chance for all your schools, and although Brown is a reach for anybody, you’re a solid applicant.
I don’t always think it’s a lack of EC’s that hurt one, rather the lack of passion for their EC’s. If you spend all the time you have doing those few, and you’ve demonstrated that, I think that is so much more powerful than a laundry list of random activities. Try portraying that via really heartfelt essays. The point is to make yourself look like a wonderful person with your application, someone that Brown will want over the sea of 2400/4.0’s.
Good luck!</p>
<p>your SATs are amazing! and yes you should try to add some more reach schools, as you have a great shot everwhere!
about your ecs: firstly, go theater! secondly, i agree with Masala2012. you need to make your ecs stand out. perhaps elaborate in your common app essay? hmm…</p>
<p>thanks so much for the feedback everyone! for those who are saying that i should aim higher, what others schools do you think i should be applying to? i’m looking for a small, hippyish school (under 4,000) that has a good poly-sci program and teaches arabic</p>
<p>I really like your list, and your grades and scores are good enough to get you a foot in the door anywhere. So you really have the luxury to choose where to apply based on how much you like the school and nothing else.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why people keep pushing you to “aim higher” (I think this is code for “apply to Harvard”). It seems pretty obvious to me–and correct me if I’m wrong–that you’re not overly concerned with prestige and are mainly looking for an intellectual environment.</p>
<p>If you’re thinking of dropping Brown, maybe UChicago would be a good replacement? It has a strong linguistics department, as far as I know. Other than that, Bowdoin has a very strong political science major, I think, and is a very cool school.</p>
<p>And if you are thinking of listening to CC’s collective advice and applying to a massive reach school (generally, not for you specifically–you have as good a chance as any), some people claim Princeton offers the most rigorous curriculum out of the top universities. I’m not so sure about that, though. Frankly, I don’t think any of HYPS would be a good fit for you. Not to say they’re bad schools, far from it, but they focus on networking, job placement, and practical skills–‘the world is my oyster’ type of stuff–while LACs tend to be more intensely academic. Again, it would be absurd to say you couldn’t become a great linguist at Princeton or Stanford, but the school culture there may not be what you’re looking for. Brown truly is the only Ivy League school I can think of whose student body is more intellectual overall.</p>
<p>I think Amherst would be a good pick? Though I’m basing this opinion merely on the fact that one of the smartest and most scholarly people I know is an Amherst graduate; one person may not be representative of the whole population.</p>
<p>Don’t know anything about these schools, sorry
But you have top-notch grades and test scores and a solid list of ec’s, i’d say you have some gooooood chances :)</p>
<p>Wow. Your stats look great!
I would say try to get more involved and get some more leadership positions junior and senior year and you should be right on track for having even a legitimate shot at Brown! (But then again…who REALLY knows what the admissions are thinking!)</p>
i actually realized today that brown doesn’t teach arabic so i probably won’t apply there, but mainly for swarthmore- do you think the lack of EC’s will still hurt me considering that i live 30 min away from school so it’s not really easy for me to stay after?</p>