Another Brown Screwup

Transfer Students
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<p>What's the deal with Brown? I just got the transfer app i requested long ago in the mail the other day, and it turns out that, in spite of containing a cover sheet addressed to tranfer students, the application itself was of the normal, first-year applicant kind. Lump that on top of setting the posting of the online app back three or more times and you have what appears to be a pretty inefficient, if not incompetent admissions committee. Whats the deal, is it always like this?</p>

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<p>yeah after all the runaround by Brown (and we've barely even begun) I really don't love it so much anymore. Wesleyan, with an online materials check system in place since October and a friendly staff, is definitely winning me over.</p>

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<p>Maybe this is all a PLOY TO ENSURE THAT THERE ARE EVEN LESS SELECTIVE WITH TRANSFER STUDENTS THIS YEAR THAN LAST YEAR!</p>

<p>Maybe they're trying to destroy Middlebury's 1 out of 230 mark!</p>

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<p>Brand, you will be going to school with students, not members of the admissions department. Don't rule out a school because of something as miniscule as this.</p>

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<p>Does Brown not have the Transfer app online?</p>

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<p>Nope. It is also the only school I've looked at that doesn't.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-088.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-088.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>med school named</p>

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<p>It's online to download and print.</p>

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<p>Jmbarr - I doubt there is anything that would make me just flat out not apply to Brown. It's too perfect in most ways. But I am disappointed in the way they run things, which could or could not be predictive of my experience there if I'm accepted/attend.</p>

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<p>oh my god! whats the deal? the downloadable app on the website doesn't include a dean's report or multiple professor recs, but rather a "secondary school instructor report" and much of the wording in the forms that follow "Form 2" seems geared towards high school students. What to make of this? Anyone?</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Admission/appforms/Transfer/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Admission/appforms/Transfer/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>there are supposed to be no forms for dean/prof recs</p>

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<p>They just want professors/deans to submit letters written on your college's stationery.</p>

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<p>Yea, what's the deal with that form 2A with all the stuff for our HSs? Does all that paperwork need to be done by guidance counselors who haven't seen us for a year or two?? Seems really weird.</p>

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<p>At my high school, they don't even use the paperwork I give them from the apps. They have their own letterhead and protocol for sending transcripts and guidance counselor recs to schools.</p>

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<p>but why does brown and virtually no other school require something from the high school guidance councelor. the application feels slapdash, is that just how it is? How can they "just want professors/deans to submit letters written on your college's stationery."?</p>

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<p>I think that's just how it is. Normally, your guidance counselor will submit a brief letter with your high school transcript.</p>

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<p>that makes no sense. so one has to fax all this **** to you high school councelor, and then request that your college dean and faculty reccomendations to write template-less, freeform letters? Its needlessly confusing.</p>

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<p>I'm confused too for the same reason. I went to high school years ago in different country, and I doubt anybody in my old HS would ever remember me to be able to fill out the 2A...
What should I do? Should I let my current community college councelor fill the form?</p>

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<p>hopingtotransfer-
"virtually no other school require something from the high school guidance councelor." is wrong!
my son is also hoping to transfer and EVERY transfer application he has downloaded [from 5 colleges, mostly Ivy] asks for or requires the High School transcript, because it is as important an indication of how a student might do academically as the college transcript, especially for Freshman looking to transfer after only 1 semester.. So I think you are overreacting to the request for HS records, and suggest you take a deep breath and proceed. It is the way it is.</p>

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<p>um, it seems you misunderstand me. Naturally every school asks for a high school transcript, my gripe, and the spiritual heart of my last message was the outrage of having the brown app look just like a high school app in its exclusion of dean's report and professorial reccs and its inclusion of a HIGH SCHOOL GUIDANCE COUNCELOR RECOMMENDATION in its stead. So menlopark mom, YOU take a deep breath.
(this is in jest, but the points made are real)</p>