Yet another PLME thread...sorry

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>I’m a rising senior with interest in applying to Brown’s PLME program ED, or just Brown ED. I just wanted to know what you thought of my chances of getting into either Brown or the PLME program. Thanks!</p>

<p>STATS:
SAT: 740 Math, 720 English, 630 Writing
SAT II: 780 American History, 760 Math 2 C</p>

<p>AP: 5 in American history, 4 in European History, 4 in Comp
I’m taking AP Calc, AP Gov, AP Lit, and AP Biology senior year</p>

<p>Grades:</p>

<p>Freshman Year: Weighted 3.9, Un-Weighted 3.6
Sophomore Year: Weighted 4.1, Un-weighted 3.7
Junior year: Weighted 4.4, Un-weighted 3.9</p>

<p>President of Amnesty at my school, largest group on campus “120 members”, raised over 20,000 for charity, have brought in speakers to school events, staged protests, made massive letter writing campaigns</p>

<p>Volunteer at UCLA medical center since Freshman year, 300+ hours</p>

<p>Member of boys JV soccer team freshman and sophomore year</p>

<p>Went to summer school to accelerate math with geometry honors, recieved a B+</p>

<p>Went to the University of Chicago’s research in biological sciences program between sophomore and junior year, received an A</p>

<p>Was invited back to intern in a lab at the university of chicago based on my performance “5 percent of the class was invited back”, worked 6 weeks between my Junior and Senior year</p>

<p>Member of the school jazz band “guitar”, 9-12</p>

<p>Founding member and leader of the Radio Club</p>

<p>President of the pre-med Club, we put on various events where we bring in doctors and and others related to the medical profession and have them speak to students</p>

<p>Ranked 3rd in a class of 175 students, private episcopal high school
Sorry I wrote so much!</p>

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<p>If PLME is your dream, why not apply? You never know. Besides, people on cc don't really know anything about college admissions or the total mindsets of adcoms. So chances threads are essentially pointless.</p>

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<p>Hmmm, Don't get me wrong, I will be applying; just wanted to get some idea of where I stand in relation to others applying as the stats on people being admitted to PLME are kinda hard to come by.</p>

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<p>Then look at the 900 other overanxious people posting stats like it's their job all over this site and compare.</p>

<p>The people who get into PLME have amazing stats, as do almost all of those who get into Brown. Try and keep your fingers crossed.</p>

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<p>630 writing is pretty bad</p>

<p>your race is important</p>

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<p>I'd say you have a slim chance at PLME but a much better chance of Brown ED in general. Just apply to PLME, but make sure to mark the check box that says you'd still go to Brown if you weren't accepted into PLME. This program is highly saught after by many more individuals who have better stats than you. You of course have a chance, but I'd say you'd do better in the regualr ED pool.</p>

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<p>halopeno and others out there in cyberspace, about that checking the box thing...
If you apply for PLME, but say you only want it to be a binding acceptance if you get accepted to the PLME versus if you want to have a binding acceptance regardless, do you think one would look better in the eyes of the adcoms?</p>

<p>I'm thinking that it'd look better if you decided to apply ED to Brown, rather than just the PLME...I absolutely love Brown, but it'd be sad if someone were to do that and then, say, get accepted to the Rice/Baylor program.</p>

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<p>I see absolutely no quantifiable way of proving what looks best to adcoms, but common sense tells me, if you say you'll go to Brown no matter what happens, that looks a lot better than the "all or nothing" approach.</p>

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<p>I would say the easiest way to think of it is this-- are you applying to Brown, or are you applying for PLME. The answer to that question is the answer to what you should check for yourself, and it's what I would think as an adcom, YMMV.</p>

<p>"This student wants to come to Brown."
"This student wants to be a doctor."</p>

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<p>Actually, thequaker applied ED for PLME but not Brown. He/she got deferred and got accepted into PLME in the regular round. So it's still possible.</p>