<p>Brown’s really my dream school. Here are my stats-</p>
<p>SAT I - 2370 (CR 770, M 800, W 800)
SAT II - math 2 - 800, english lit - 780
Class 9 - overall B grade
Class 10 - 10 CGPA
Class 11 - 81% (But its still in the top 5% of my class of 250 students)
Class 12 - 93%
Awards - Army Welfare Society Merit Certificate and Scholarship, CBSE Merit certificate for math</p>
<p>ECs - NNC Inter-Directorate Shooting C’ship GOLD medal in 10 m air rifle, shooting for 5 years (Y 9, 10, 11, 12 and gap year), volunteer work at MAKE A DIFFERENCE for a year, wrote several articles for my school magazine and my local newspaper, English and math olympiads, have a blog on shooting and the sports culture in India</p>
<p>Nationality: Indian
Gender: Female
Income bracket: below $25000</p>
<p>Brown is a reach for almost everyone, including you</p>
<p>Go For It, but know that your stats are consistent with both accepted students and rejected students</p>
<p>so apply elsewhere too :-)</p>
<p>Brown says no to
87% of those in top 10% of their class
85% of those with a 750-790 SAT CR
84% of those with an 800 SAT Math
76% of Valedictorians</p>
<p>“Brown says no to
87% of those in top 10% of their class
85% of those with a 750-790 SAT CR
84% of those with an 800 SAT Math
76% of Valedictorians”</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, what percentage of people with all four of these things do they say no to?
I’m just asking cause I feel like you would know.</p>
<p>There are no combination statistics shown, other than the composite ACT score, which shows increased acceptance odds from 15-16% for achieving one maximum subscore to a 29% acceptance rate for maxing out all subscores.</p>
<p>How important are essays when you are applying to a college? Do really spectacular essays make up for some not very impressive things on the app?</p>
<p>IMO, essays are just as important as GPA or SAT’s.
The applicants who have a shot at being accepted to Brown have similar SAT score ranges, near-perfect/perfect GPA, great recommendations so how are Brown admission staff going to segregate better all-around applicants from the worse?
I think the answer to that lies in 1) Essay 2) EC’s, but of course, this is my hypothesis; I’m an applicant this year as well, so what would I know? haha</p>
<p>Brown is especially looking for students who will thrive under the freedom and flexibility of the Open Curriculum. To the extent that your essays show you to be independent, self-directed and self-motivated, they will strengthen your application.</p>
<p>^Crappy essays are used to weed out students, but almost no one has those so having a good one doesn’t matter. You need to have good grades, class rigor, standardized test scores, extracurriculars, essays, and everything else for a real shot at Brown. They just look for reasons to deny, not to accept, because applicants are so well-qualified.</p>
