Realistically, How Bad/Good Are My Chances for Brown?

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<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 2260 (780M, 790W, 690CR) - Will take SATs again to raise CR</li>
<li>ACT: N/A</li>
<li>SAT II: Bio E - 800, Math Level 2 – 800, Chemistry – 800, US History – 750</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0</li>
<li>Rank - 1/185</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology – 5, US Government and Politics – 5, US History – 5, Chemistry – 5, Calculus BC – 4/4</li>
<li>Sophomore Year Course Load: AP Biology, Honors English, Precalculus Honors (only sophomore in class), AP US History I, Spanish III Honors, Honors Chem</li>
<li>Junior Year Course Load: AP US History II, AP Gov, AP Calc BC (only junior in the class, only one taking BC test), AP Chem, Spanish IV Honors, Honors English </li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: AP Stat, AP Psych, AP Euro, AP Spanish, AP English, AP Physics
(Will graduate with 11 AP’s total)</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Leadership:
-Senior Class President ’09-’10
-Junior Class President ’08-’09
-Sophomore Class President ’07-’08
-Freshman Class Secretary ’06-’07
-Drum Major of the Marching Band
-2008-2009 Yamaha Cup Champions, NJ State Champions, Northern States
Champions</p>

<p>Academic:
-Participant of Columbia University Science Honors Program
-Mind and Brain
-Quantum Mechanics, General Relativity, and String Theory
-Participant of Robert Wood Johnson Mini-Medical School Program
-Participant of CTY Summer programs
-Biology ’06, Chemistry ‘07
-Participant of ALJBS (NJ Boys State)</p>

<p>Athletic:
-4th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo (only about 100 people under 18 in the US to hold this title)
-Regularly judge regional and statewide Taekwondo tournaments
-200 hours of voluntary after-class instruction
-Founder of the Taekwondo program at the Boys and Girls Club of Morris County (80 hours)
-Varsity Tennis (9-12)</p>

<p>Music:
-Achieved High honors for 2 consecutive years in NJMTA Piano Program
-Lead Clarinet player in Wind Ensemble/Concert Band, Select clarinet player in school musical</p>

<p>Other School Related Activities:
-Math League (9-12)
-Academic Decathlon (9-12)
-Miscellaneous awards in math/science
-Chess Club (9-12)
-Spanish Honor Society (11-12)
-National Honor Society (11-12)</p>

<p>Miscellaneous:
-Cadet at the First Aid Squad
-Raised $500 for the American Diabetes Association
-50 hours as a teacher assistant at the St. Andrew Kim Korean School
-300 hours of tutoring international students
-Questbridge CollegePrep Award
-AP Scholar w/Distinction</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: I’m a fairly decent writer so my essays should be pretty good.</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: Very good recommendations</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Very good recommendation</li>
<li>Additional Rec: I might get one from my AP US History teacher from sophomore year (who went back to college). He graduated from Harvard and likes me a lot…</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>Region (if domestic applicant): NJ</li>
<li>School Type: Medium sized public school (circa 800 kids) - doesn’t send kids to Ivies often. </li>
<li>Ethnicity: Korean-American</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation for 4 year college, low income ($40,000)</li>
</ul>

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<p>Your grades are perfect.</p>

<p>EC’s are outstanding.</p>

<p>Taekwondo is amazing =D</p>

<p>I’d say you are more than qualified, but then again, no one is ever a lock for Ivies.</p>

<p>By the way, Korean-American is not really a URM…URMs are like… Native Americans/Hispanics/African-Americans I’m pretty sure…not entirely.</p>

<p>And also, it seems like you are involved in a LOT of stuff.
So maybe…have more clear focuses?</p>

<p>Also, 4-year college 1st Generation doesn’t really count for anything if your parents attended any type of college at all…</p>

<p>1st-Gen is when either parent has gone past high school level education.</p>

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<p>You have just as good of a chance as anyone else. I can tell you that my test grades were almost all lower than yours (CR was 650 for me). The only thing that’s really going against you is your region and your ethnicity (which were my biggest obstacles too, I’d say), and there’s nothing you can really do about that! So good luck. :)</p>

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<p>Do you do ITF Taekwon-do, or W T F? (out of curiosity)</p>

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<p>*** TKD. Thanks for the replies, guys.</p>

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<p>The Taekwon-do group at Brown is W T F, if you’re interested in continuing :)</p>

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<p>Oh wow, that’s very cool. I’ll do some more research on it…</p>

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<p>I pretty much had the exact same application as you (different class rank, but my high school school is super competitive) and I was accepted. I’d say you have over a 50% shot at least (my guess is 60% chance…you never know with top schools these days though).</p>

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<p>Thanks admitone, that gives me hope =)</p>

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<p>Quite the resume you’ve built up. It must have come at a heavy cost. </p>

<p>I have to doubt whether or not you are actually human though. I mean, varsity tennis, valedictorian, fourth degree black belt, piano/clarinet extraordinaire, teaching assistant, chess club, class president, math league, and you’re in the marching band…? I’m laughing as I type this. </p>

<p>You’re unreal. Send me a PM if you ever come to Brown. I want to meet you in person.</p>