<p>i have heard that brown is unique in that its quite difficult to tab a trend on what kind of students they like because they tend to ignore board scores/gpas more than other colleges. is there any truth to this? for example, kids with scores/gpas would be expected to be rejected/deferred get in because of some eccentricity in their application? pretty much, do they focus more on the uniqueness of applications more so than their accomplishments more than any other school?</p>
<p>Take a really good look at [Brown</a> Admission: Facts & Figures](<a href=“Undergraduate Admission | Brown University”>Undergraduate Admission | Brown University). </p>
<p>You’ll see that Brown cares a lot about GPA and SATs. Accepted students who fall on the low end tend to have hooks – athletes, development cases, URMs, first-gen college. The first thing Brown looks at are your grades in school and the rigor of your classes. Brown does not seek to admit a class of eccentrics with mediocre grades and SATs.</p>
<p>Brown cares a great deal about both SATs and GPA. The curve and correlation between them and success in admission is definitely linear, and does not belie some sort of predisposition toward “schizophrenic” acceptances.</p>
<p>Tea, your post here is one of the few I wholeheartedly agree with. Whatever Brown’s representations about holistic admissions, the fact is that higher board scores and a high GPA gives you a significantly better chance of being admitted, all other things being relatively equal.</p>
<p>I can’t deny the truth. The facts are on Brown’s website.</p>
<p>@fireandrain~
just out of curiosity, what do you mean by ‘developmental cases’?</p>
<p>Rich people who give lots of money, especially those who give so much that they have buildings named after them.</p>
<p>brown tends to take a slightly more hollistic approach than other ivies. slightly. very slightly. Grades and scores still matter significantly. It’s kind of like a threshold. they won’t consider your unique prowess if you don’t have the primary essential characteristics. </p>
<p>fireandrain, that’s true absolutely everywhere. </p>
<p>websites can be misleading</p>
<p>Napoleon: I know.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t think they’re schizophrenic, they just look at apps more holistically.</p>
<p>^I LOL-ed at this thread. Even if Brown was ‘schizophrenic’ (and I have no idea how that word even applies here), would it change your decision to apply? If you really want to attend Brown, does it matter how Brown chooses to admit people? If you came here looking for reassurances, I’m quite certain that being told that Brown is ‘schizophrenic’ would make you more, and not less, worried.</p>
<p>I am not an admissions officer. I’m just a teenager who spends way too much time reading about controversies in college admissions. :)</p>
<p>Sure, Brown doesn’t have a formula. Of course it’s interested in GPA and scores. Yes, it likes to see originality, creativity, nerdiness, etc.</p>
<p>However, when a school has thousands more applicants than it could possibly admit, it has to make some decisions. Sometimes these decisions aren’t predictable or, arguably, sensible to the outsider. It does what it needs to do to reduce 25000 applicants to 10000 or 5000 or whatever until it can afford to be more picky.</p>
<p>Not a very pleasant process, in my opinion.</p>
<p>That probably didn’t help. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>actually brown has one of the widest SAT range spreads among admitted students - i definitely think they are more forgiving</p>