white caucasian/mediocre grades/brown ed

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I know I'm the 400th kid to do this and that nobody can make an accurate judgement, especially without recs/essays, but I'm crapping my pants over this and would appreciate any help. Thanks.</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 2270; 750 reading, 720 math, 800 writing</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 720 french, 670 literature, 720 math 1, 670 amh</li>
<li>GPA: 3.58 freshman, 3.58 sophmore, 3.76 junior</li>
<li>Rank: my school doesn't rank. i know my gpa is quite low by national standards, but at my school, it is actually quite high, as i go to a difficult new york private school.</li>
<li>Other stats: 4 on AP US; taking AP english, AP euro, AP french, AP latin, calc, art history, expository writing, and peer leadership this year in school.</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: rushed, but creative and good i think</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: one very dubious, one probably quite good. i also got a supplementary letter from a teacher who left the school after my junior year which was very good and a letter from my church employer which was excellent</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: not sure; hopefully good</li>
<li>Hook (if any): my dad graduated from brown in 1962 (he hasn't given much money, however)</li>
</ul>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>-Student Government; Vice President (12), Grade Representative (11);
-Varsity Basketball; Co-Captain (12)
-School Newspaper; Co-Editor-in-Chief (12), Associate Editor+Sports Editor (11)
-Panthers Sports Report; Lead Writer, Editor-in-Chief (11/12), Founder (11);
-Debate Club; President (10/11/12), Vice President (9)
-Model UN; Delegate (9/10/11/12)
-Rise Magazine; Lead Writer and Lead Editor (11/12), Founder (11)Rise Magazine is a New York City sports publication that I helped establish a connection with at Browning.
-The Lit; Contributing Editor and Writer (9/10/11/12)
-En Avant; Contributing Writer (9/10/11/12)
-Peer Leadership; (12)
-Grytte Yearbook; Senior Editor (12), Staff Member (9), 2 hrs/wk, 40wks/yr.
-Mock Trial; Witness (12), Backup Witness (10, 11), Paralegal (9).</p>

<p>Outside of school, I have interned at a Church for a year, participated in a Journalism conference, and attended the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth program for two years.</p>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: NY</li>
<li>School Type: Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Caucasian (yes!)</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
</ul>

<p>i'd appreciate any help, thanks so much.</p>

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<p>It would be better to understand your gpa if you gave us your rank or decile position</p>

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<p>well my school doesn't rank or anything like that, there are only 23 kids. it won't be reported. but my gpa is in the top 10 of the last 5 years or so, i know that from the scattergrams and such.</p>

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<p>At our (private) school, the only kids who get into Brown have nearly perfect GPAs and test scores, and usually wind up at HYP.</p>

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<p>You're crapping your pant becasue you want to go (to) Brown..Oh the irony!</p>

<p>Adcoms take into account the difficulty of the school; if your school is indeed tougher than overcooked meat, then that will help.</p>

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<p>i don't know if it's so much that the school is tough, it's more that the kids are idiots. i think the counselor sends a scattergram of the applicants of the past 10 years with me on it or something.</p>

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<p>bump for more diarrhea antidote</p>

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<p>Does your school typically send grads to top schools? Where have people with your GPA gone in the past?</p>

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<p>You want an antidote for diarrhea? 'cause usually to find the antidote for an affliction, you have to study it and derive the antidote from it. It might be time for you to visit the brown, if you know what I mean.</p>

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<p>"You want an antidote for diarrhea? 'cause usually to find the antidote for an affliction, you have to study it and derive the antidote from it. It might be time for you to visit the brown, if you know what I mean."</p>

<p>hey, thanks for the advice, mastert tang. with clear medical skills like this, why are you wasting your time on a college admissions thread making ambiguous jabs at strangers when you could be out saving lives instead? </p>

<p>putting aside the fact that you pulled this weak, inoffensive statement out of your a(ss), let's make some obvious points:</p>

<p>(1) if i truly wanted an antidote for diarrhea, i wouldn't need to discover it, as diarrhea medicine already exists
(2) i don't truly want an antidote for diarrhea; it was a metaphor that posed the antidote for diarrhea as the analogue of good advice and the diarrhea itself as the analogue of my worries.
(3) you say "to find the antidote for an affliction, you have to study it and derive the antidote from it." from it? as opposed to deriving the antidote from something else? nice writing, (s)hit-(c)ock. best of luck in your future career as a paint salesman
(4) you're an (a)sshole</p>

<p>your attempt to sound smart was clumsy enough to warrant putting a handicapped sticker on your car.</p>

<p>i genuinely hate you. you're so stupid that i feel almost overwhelmed as to how to continue.</p>

<p>i don't mean to be a d!ck, i'm just aggressively quelling this bizarre, pathetic need to be a jerk in online forums. i hope it is a means to an end.</p>

<p>(maddox)</p>

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<p>Geez, do I have to seperate you two? Master T, you were obviously being sardonic, and perhaps you should apologize. Brownplease, you were the long end of male genetalia, no need to go off. Why does everyone have to be so damn serious and stuff, sometimes people just need to chillax. Geesh.</p>

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<p>I'm sorry. I really didn't mean to make you hate me. Sorry for ruining your post.</p>

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<p>You're a white caucasian. As opposed to an African-American caucasian?</p>

<p>Sorry. Just thought that was an interesting redundancy.</p>

<p>Anyway, your ECs look pretty good. Your test scores are good. Your GPA...that will have to be considered in-context, I supose, for your difficult private school.</p>

<p>You have a decent chance, I'd say. Let's call it...1 in 3?</p>

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<p>I think you are strong enough an applicant to be admitted as a legacy.
The SAT IIs make you look like you are not a very serious student, however, at least within the ivy applicant pool.</p>

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<p>2250 I believe is a general Ivy threshold for non-URM candiates - which you hit....</p>

<p>however, as outstanding as that record is, unfortunately, despite a legacy, the NYC locale could be the biggest problem - whereas the same stats from an Oklahoma or Alaska or maybe North Dakota applicant might be an admit</p>

<p>Living in the northeast USA is a big handicap for many</p>

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<p>BrownPlease, its people like you that are the reason that I would never, ever apply to an Ivy League school. I hope that an admissions officer is reading this forum right now (Which in all likelihood he is, as it has been at the top of the <em>I'm so scared I won't get in please coddle me</em> forum for about a day and a half now) and denies you rejection for being such a collosal bag of feminine hygiene products. I beg of you, take your pathetic lack of self confidence, your arrogant pomposity, your inability to take a joke, and your most likely fat, pimply face and crawl back into the hole that you have lived in studying for the last few years.
And seriously, handicapped jokes aren't funny. Especially from somebody who's been as lucky as you. Ever hear of Karma?</p>

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<p>"You're a white caucasian. As opposed to an African-American caucasian?"
yeah, realized that one a little bit after doing it. although i wouldn't be so politically correct if i were you, it really is okay to say black. african-american isnt the opposite of white, since whites can be from africa and live in america. it's also more offensive, i would assume, to avoid the word since avoidance is associated with bad things usually.</p>

<p>also, mastert tang, sorry about all that, i was mainly kidding around</p>

<p>thanks, everyone else; all very legitimate points.</p>

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<p>"BrownPlease, its people like you that are the reason that I would never, ever apply to an Ivy League school. I hope that an admissions officer is reading this forum right now (Which in all likelihood he is, as it has been at the top of the <em>I'm so scared I won't get in please coddle me</em> forum for about a day and a half now) and denies you rejection for being such a collosal bag of feminine hygiene products. I beg of you, take your pathetic lack of self confidence, your arrogant pomposity, your inability to take a joke, and your most likely fat, pimply face and crawl back into the hole that you have lived in studying for the last few years.
And seriously, handicapped jokes aren't funny. Especially from somebody who's been as lucky as you. Ever hear of Karma?"</p>

<p>i'd respond to this if i was remotely compelled to defend myself. this is just weak.</p>

<p>nice job on the fat, pimply face reference, though. ad hominum insults are both necessary and consistent with attacks trying to criticize "arrogant pomposity." as opposed to humble pomposity? and you say i also have a pathetic lack of self confidence? what?</p>

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<p>also, what handicapped joke?</p>

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<p>I calculated your chances on the mathematic statistical analysis contraption I designed through research in conjunction with a math professor at MIT over the summer (although only on Thursdays). They are as follows:</p>

<p>23/191.73222 (more or less)</p>