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<p>I was thinking of applying, as I live in RI and consider it a very good school for what I intend to do. However, I think that my stats may be a bit below par. My AP Teacher, my mentor, and the person writing my rec is a professor at Brown, so hopefully this may help. Anyway, here are my stats. My ec’s may be a bit stronger than my scores but still. </p>

<p>2010 Sat 700-m 680-v 630-w
3/97 class rank
3.85/4.35 Gpa</p>

<p>Ec’s </p>

<p>Vice President NHS
Editor School Newspaper
Disaster Relief Volunteer w/ Red Cross
President Young Republicans Club
Varsity Track and Tennis
Math Team and Latin Club</p>

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<p>I dont know - I think you need to bring up that score a bit. Your extracurriculars seem quite strong - but depends how many years youve done them also.</p>

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<p>i see a lot of ecs, but no direction in them....what's your passion??</p>

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<p>I am going to "borrow" your post, based on xoakhilaox's response:</p>

<p>Frosh year I did horrible: 3.3, was in 2 clubs, no honors
Soph year:3.8, 1 club, 1 honor
Junior: Currently getting straight As, although the quarter isnt over yet; I dropped all the clubs i had before because they were not active and I am now:
VP for Spanish club
Junior counterpart for grad committee
2 other clubs that I will run for positions in next year
Volunteer at 2 organizations outside of school
work one night a week
I WAS co-editor in chief of paper, but because of a schedule change, I had to drop the class and am now one of the page editors</p>

<p>My ultimate dream is also Brown but I messed up the begining of my high school career. Will Brown see that I am now more then focused on my goals, and that I have improved?</p>

<p>TO THE OP:
I think that you have a chance, and you are only slightly under the SAT avg., and brown is known for looking at more then just scores. Give it a try...</p>

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<p>also..I am in 3 honors Junior year (of 6 classes)</p>

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<p>"My AP Teacher, my mentor, and the person writing my rec is a professor at Brown,"
are these all 3 different people or the same person?</p>

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<p>its the same person.</p>

<p>About my ec's, I have a few passions. I am very politically active hence the young r club. I am a good student and writer (NHS and Editor). Also I am athletic (Tennis and Track).</p>

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<p>Any more comments?</p>

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<p>Well, a president of a high-school Young Republicans, that would be a real rarity in the ED pool for Brown, I'd say.</p>

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<p>I would suggest to take the SAT again and apply ED and write good essays. That'll give you the best chance.</p>

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<p>it might be too late to take the SAT again and get it in before ED, so I would say to take the SAT again and just apply RD so that your scores are in. also, stellar grades first semster would be good (if you are going to get them)</p>

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<p>I doubt you will get in. Both your GPA isn't high enough, from the Brown kids that I have met, and your SAT isn't high enough. Here is the url from Naviance. Just click on it, enter as a guest, go to college look up and go to Brown.
<a href="https://connection.naviance.com/fc/signin.php?hsid=wootton%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://connection.naviance.com/fc/signin.php?hsid=wootton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The way our grading works: Honors and AP courses get one extra point. Thus, an "A" in an honors would be wroth 5 points. A "B" would be worth 4 etc. We have a lot of smart kids due to having two magnet, certification programs. If Brown takes all their kids with the same resumes as they do from our school, you are doomed.</p>

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<p>TAXGUY: "your GPA isn't high enough"</p>

<p>There are a few hundredths of gpa points between me and the val. Last time I checked, 20% of the people accepted at brown weren't even in the top ten percent of their class (usnews 2005). Also my sat, while on the low side, is in the mid range for Brown (1300-1460). </p>

<p>It looks like your school has some grade inflation. 4.0's are meaningless if the top 10 people in the class all have them. This is why class rank is so important to look at. Besides, most top tier school recalculate the gpa's taking off the weighted part.</p>

<p>"If Brown takes all their kids with the same resumes as they do from our school, you are doomed."</p>

<p>Congrats to your school. However, I'm confident that your school has only one editor of the paper, vp of NHS, and one kid ranked 3rd. Looks like at most one kid from your school COULD have the same resume and even then, it would come down to the essay (PS I like to write). Anyway thx for the laugh.</p>

<p>OTHER POSTERS: Thanks for the advice. Kinda stupid starting a chances thread considering its anyone's game. Adcoms these days can be pretty random. Thanks again.</p>

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<p>Hey Taxguy, do those stats come with numbers or are those just acceptances/rejections/deferments and waitlisted? Because if it just tells how many people get in or not, it's pretty much pointless...</p>

<p>Here are my school's stats on Brown ED for last year. We do not rank, weigh APs and our grades are out of a 100 point scale. It's also a top specialized HS in NYC.</p>

<p>These stats are listed in GPA / Verbal SAT / Math SAT
Accepted 95.8 780 740<br>
Accepted 95.8 750 730<br>
Rejected 95.7 670 750<br>
Rejected 90.2 680 730<br>
Rejected 89.8 700 740<br>
Rejected 87.5 710 730 </p>

<p>And this is for regular decision:</p>

<p>Rejected 96.7 680 790
WaitList 96.6 720 780
Rejected 96.6 780 760
Rejected 96.3 800 760
Rejected 96.2 790 800
Rejected 96.1 760 740
Rejected 96.0 630 800
Rejected 95.8 780 710
WaitList 95.7 750 680
Rejected 95.7 660 720
Rejected 95.7 670 750
Rejected 95.7 660 800
Rejected 95.7 670 690 </p>

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<p>So as you can see, it's not solely based on grades or else there wouldn't be so many rejections.</p>