<p>Hey all,
I've applied transfer to both these schools and was wondering if anyone could give me some idea of to what extent I should be keeping hopes high and expectations low :).</p>
<p>HS
Weighted GPA: 3.71, top 5% (our school was weird with grades)
SAT I: 660M, 760V, 710W
SAT II: USHist 660, Lit 670, Math I 690 <em>I know these are low</em>
EC's: Co-Captain Model UN + several awards, Pres. and Founder of first competing debate team at my school, Pres French National Honor Society, Founder of School Chapter of Young Dems of America, Boy's State Rep, Boy's Nation Rep <em>highly competitive</em></p>
<p>I also graduated HS half a year early to work as a full-time, unpaid intern on the Hillary Clinton Campaign. I worked about 80-90 hours a week in NH, RI, and MA <em>made calls to PA as well</em> and the summer following my senior year I worked 30-40 hours a week as a paid canvasser on a senate campaign, so I probably have a bit over 500hours of campaign experience.</p>
<p>College: University of Rochester, Freshmen
GPA: 3.61 (deans list)*
EC's: Class President, Elected Publicity Chair for my school's LGBT organization</p>
<p>I also recently found out that I will be doing research in developmental linguistics and language acquisition all summer at the University of Toronto, so I'll be writing both schools about this too (the professor I'm working with is going to write me a letter for Brown)</p>
<p>*a note about GPA: I overloaded my first semester, taking Chinese and Japanese. I got A's in everything except Japanese where I got a B- (missed a 3.71 by half a point in that class :( ). My main reason for applying transfer is U of R's deficiency in language / culture studies programs, specifically east asian studies. My intro japanese class had 40-50+ students in it, over twice the amount that both Brown and Columbia cap their east asian language courses at.</p>
<p>Brown really is my top choice. It's the only other major open curriculum university outside the school I'm already at. Basically I love the people here, I love the open curric, but I'm constantly frustrated by the lack of resources in the areas I'm interested in studying. </p>
<p>So annnnyways, if anyone could give me any idea where they think I stand with the admissions pool, I'd greatly appreciate it :). Thanks!</p>
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