<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>