<p>Hey. This'll be my second time posting for chances. Last time at the end of sophomore year, now at the end of junior year, and probably once more around application time. Would like to know whether you think I have a chance at HYP, Brown, Columbia and schools of that caliber in general. Anyway, here goes...</p>
<p>GPA UW: 3.7 W: 5.4 (rumors that i may be salutatorian)
I have made A's in most classes, but i'm weak in math: C in alg2, B in IB math studies1 and B in honors chemistry, B in IB math studies2. Still taking honors calc next year though.</p>
<p>my major passion is continental philosophy. debate has been my outlet. likely going to major in it. </p>
<p>old SAT: 780v 670m
(plan to take new one next year, hoping for 700m, 800v, 750-800w)
750 US history
770 literature
800 french
taking bio soon (expect 700?)</p>
<p>past APs:
euro 5
french 5
french lit 5
expected scores:
english 5
US hist 5
psych 5 (self studied)
english lit 4-5 (self studied)
bio 4-5 (self studied)</p>
<p>honors: check out some of my art here: <a href="http://artattack.to/display.php?artist=1000001004%5B/url%5D">http://artattack.to/display.php?artist=1000001004</a>
-expected national AP scholar
-regional gold key for art
-national silver key for art (congressional art award pending. crossing fingers!)
-art exhibited at coconut grove women's club twice
-3rd best speaker at Florida Novice State in Lincoln-Douglas debate
-ranked 1st nationwide on French exam (division for native speakers)
-named junior scholar at my school
-national merit semi by senior yr
-co-editor and co-founder of school's literary magazine, Encore (some of my art is in it)
-vice president of debate club</p>
<p>ECs: long-term job tutoring french and english
long-term member of creative writing club
spending 4 weeks at Pratt Institute for art classes
short Lincoln-Douglas debate seminar this summer too
unfortunately not more than 100 volunteer hours. hope to catch up on those during the summer.</p>
<p>Sorry for how long this is....please be honest with me. I know it's sort of unusual to be setting sights on Ivies with crappy math skills like mine, but i feel that i may be able to compensate for it.
By the way I have legacy at Harvard; how does that impact my chances there?
Thanks for your input!</p>
<p>thanks....i certainly hope so, though maybe <em>too</em> realistic and human for hahvahd? ;) didn't even make straight A's this year :/
ivies are for superhumans.</p>
<p>Some odd feeling that I felt while rading your stats was...I can feel the "human-ness" of the person behind the numbers. Does that make sense? I don't know, but I don't think I'm the only one that felt this, as all the previous comment imply. </p>
<p>NICE JOB with the AP test scores, add legacy on top of that like you said, will top it off nicely. I'd say you have a good of a chance as anyone, possibly a bit more for the legacy, so try and apply and hope for the best.</p>
<p>would it redeem me if i took a calculus course online, or tried calc bc through online study and did well? i don't think my schedule would accommodate it very well though...Somehow i feel better able to accomplish more through a single concentrated effort...so what if I were to purchase a Math ic or iic review book and study really hard and get a very good score on the test? i think i can do that. Would it be advantageous, or would a college think i'm smart but lazy, in that case..... i don't know. please help, thanks :)</p>
<p>"ivies are for superhumans."
Nah. Even Peter Parker had to go to NYU. And Superman never went to college in the current continuity.</p>
<p>Your "stats" look fine. Just keep doing what you love, and you'll wind up at an institution which will support you artistically and, hopefully, socially. You seem rational, so don't buy into the Harvard-Yale-Princeton hype.</p>
<p>Hi! My d applied to Brown 2 years ago. During the Admission session at Brown- it was mentioned that there is some connection between Brown and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and that if you were artistic, your portfolio could be reviewed by RISD and it might be a factor for admission. I really don't remember much of the details (I almost failed Art 101 in college). But I strongly suggest you review the websites of both schools & talk to admissions counselor at Brown. Getting into an Ivy is tough- so try to take advantage of any "hook" that you have. Good luck.</p>
<p>thanks. thing is i don't plan to pursue art in college; going to do philosophy. perhaps i am better off not telling them...don't know, but philo is really my life. i'll most likely write my essays about it.
as for the math thing, which i badly need to show some sort of improvement in, I'm going from
9th: C in Alg 2
10th: B in IBmathstudies1 and B honors chemistry
11th: B in IB mathstudies2 (by some amazing feat of idiocy i failed to ace the really easy final. very frustrating. and besides this is idiot-math)
12th: honors calculus </p>
<p>would that idea about taking a math SATII and doing well on it help? or taking an extra math class online, i have no idea....</p>
<p>I've heard that Brown really value if you have special talents. May be this is the place for you... They put talent in very important admissions factors. </p>
<p>Otherwise I really liked the debate thing, is it common in the US to do Lincoln-Douglas. I'd really enjoy it because I'm an individualist to some extent...</p>
<p>well first, initial interest probably means you'd like it. often people shy away from it because they're under the impression that it's stodgy and boring and heavily intellectual, which it is to some extent...but really if you're into philosophy, logic, abstractions, you'd like it. I, for one, avoid policy and public forum type debates because i hate debating facts; in LD though, facts are just a means of achieving a slightly more abstract end (supports a conclusion, makes impact to sway judge). It really all depends on what you're more comfortable with intellectually.</p>
<p>wow. well then you're pretty versatile :) lately, LD has become "contaminated" with policy-type debating styles...which honestly is not bad, but it's a shift towards something i am less comfortable with. so now it's really a combination of both. in principle it should not be! i'm a firm adherent to the old style. hehe.</p>