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I’m thinking ED at Brown.

I am a white jewish male
GPA: 3.75 U / 4.2 W
SATI: 1420 (720 V, 700 M)
SATII: 780 Writing, 680 US History, 780 Math IIC
No class rank, but my school is the #3 private school in the country (Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, CA)
By the end of HS, 7 APs total.
Scores so far:
English Language-5; Calculus AB-5; US History-5

My classes this year:
AP Calculus C, AP Physics B, AP English Lit, Advanced Newspaper: Editors, Spanish 3 Honors, Fitness, Advanced Sculpture, Worldviews and Decisions: The Self and the Spirit, and AP Geography.

I am the Editor-In-Chief of my school newspaper which is (a) in the High School Newspaper Hall of Fame and (b) has twice been named the best high school newspaper in California in the past two years by two different organizations.

I personally have won two write-off competition (writing on the spot) awards at national journalism conferences and an article I wrote will be published in the upcoming issue of Columbia University's Student Press Review.

I am also the President of a community service organization called Youth Ending Hunger. We make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, bake cookies, and cook pasta and meatballs for local homeless shelters then serve them the food.

My third (and final) EC is a program at my school called Peer Support (similar to peer counseling). I was selected to be part of the program (only a select amount of juniors and seniors are asked to be in the program) and I am a Peer Support Leader. I lead a weekly discussion with students (no faculty present) and just talk with them about life, school, and anything on their mind.

I have made Honor Roll freshman, sophomore, and junior years in high school and in freshman year I won an award for being the best freshman english student/writer.

umm... thats about it. this summer i did an outward bound course (for 22 days i mountaineered and kayaked in alaska. no showers, no shaving, no toilet paper... ie hardcore outdoors stuff, like ice climbing, glacier travel, 20-mile paddles in one day, etc.) this is what i plan on writing my essay about


and thats me.

will i get in to brown ?
and just for kicks, here are the other schools on my list if ED doesnt work out: Wesleyan, Amherst, middlebury, Dartmouth, Colby, Carleton, Oberlin, Lewis & clark

By Soozievt (Soozievt) on Sunday, September 26, 2004 - 05:20 pm: Edit

"will i get in to brown ?"

I don't think anyone on this message board can tell you if you will get in. My opinion is that your qualifications make you an appropriate candidate for Brown and that you have a chance to be considered. While you have fine looking credentials, you have to go into this process fully aware of the status of elite admissions these days. It is not enough to be qualified (and you appear to be). There are WAY too many qualified candidates for the slots in the freshman class at a school like Brown who accepted 15% of applicants last year. They could fill the class easily a second time with kids just as "good" as the ones who got in. They build a diverse group of kids and there is an element of luck if your profile will fill one of the slots. They reject many valedictorians, kids with perfect scores, editors, team captains, school presidents, etc. So, go into this with open eyes. If Brown is your clear first choice, applying ED increases your odds a bit. You would have to articulate why Brown is your first choice. You have to showcase who you are in your application and make it come alive. You have some good things there to work with. But just be aware that you have what it takes to get to the gate but none of us can say whether you will get in that gate. I hope you do but make sure you love several schools and make sure you have safeties that you love.

I hope you get to visit Brown if you have not yet. I have a daughter who is a freshman there who LOVES it so far and is so happy she picked this school now that she is there. You certainly have a chance but admissions at this level is unpredictable. Go for it! But make sure you like SEVERAL schools.

Susan

PS, as I was writing this, my other kid who is currently applying to college, told me that the person she did a babysitting job for last night told her that she went to Princeton, had also gotten into Yale, but did not get into Brown. That is a good example of what I was writing about above. UNpredicatable at this level of schools.

By Deerhunter (Deerhunter) on Monday, September 27, 2004 - 12:41 am: Edit

You're the EIC of Harvard Westlake's Newspaper and you have good grades and good test scores. Enough with all this "We don't know" stuff. If you apply ED you're pretty much guaranteed in. Case closed ;-)

By Beckygirl383 (Beckygirl383) on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 10:28 am: Edit

will you marry me, cantwait05?