<p>Hi I am applying for 2010 entry from the UK and would really appreciate if any current UK students could post a link to/put up their admission profiles. Mainly as American academic and extracurricular terminology is very confusing (and therefore a little difficult to compare my own to)! Thank you in advance!!! :)</p>
<p>Just curious, uk student, has Brown’s profile in the UK risen now that Emma Watson is going there?</p>
<p>she’s not god you know, she’s just a person!
why would one person change an entire university’s profile?</p>
<p>Um I don’t think so! I heard she was going to Columbia though, am I mistaken?</p>
<p>She’s at Brown. If you’ve been on the internet in the last month, I don’t know how you could have missed it. </p>
<p>Jen, I meant “profile” as in “high profile” vs. “low profile,” not “porfile” as in “description.” It’s not that one person would change the place…it’s that one person could make the place about 20 times as well known as it was before. It happened with Boston College with Doug Flutie. The U of St. Andrews became far far far more well known in the US when Prince Whoever went there. In Spain Georgetown University became very famous overnight when the son of King Juan Carlos went there for a master’s degree a few years back.</p>
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<p>Whoa, slow down there. Nobody said she was God. I think the point is she’s a high profile UK student who goes to Brown, thus Brown might be getting some pub in the UK these days.</p>
<p>Hey ukstudent,</p>
<p>I’d like to give you some detailed advice. I am busy at the moment, so I’ll try to be back later tonite to answer some of the questions you may have about applying to Brown (which I did do for the 08-09 year)</p>
<p>Ah that would be great 
thanks so much!</p>
<p>Thanks, coolbreeze, that’s exactly what I meant.</p>
<p>ukstudent, </p>
<p>Before I get started, I’d like to go off on a tangent about how no matter where you go (prestigious school vs. not-so-prestigious school) you’ll still be challenged … really challenged. Because, well, it’s college. I still have a lot of work to do, but I am incredibly distracted right now because I want to audition for the Symphony Orchestra here at Michigan but for some stupid reason the conductor, who promised to e-mail me today to schedule a time, STILL HASN’T E-MAILED ME YET!!! I’m about to explode, because I love music (but not to the point of wanting to major in it, but still). So I figured that while I’m still so off-focus, I might as well put my time to good use by helping others. End tangent. </p>
<p>OK. So I applied to Brown last year as a domestic student (but still got rejected, oh well), and I’ll do my best to explain the admissions process to you, since your thread is a good 4 days old now and no one has bothered offering any good explanation yet. Before we get started, since you’re an international student, you must understand that Brown is need-aware for internationals, which means that if you request financial aid, your chances of admission are much lower and it will be much harder for you to get in … harder than it is already now. So without further ado… </p>
<p>Brown is a member of the Common App. In other words, it uses the Common Application as its main core of your application for entry into the university. Think of the Common Application of the UCAS. The only difference between the UCAS and the Common App is that not every school in the USA uses the Common App and every school may choose to add on a supplement to the Common App if they choose to do so. (Brown is one of those schools). So click on <a href=“http://www.commonapp.org%5B/url%5D”>http://www.commonapp.org</a> to get started now.</p>
<p>You have two ways of filing the Common App. You can file it on-line (over the Internet) or by mail. Preferably, you should file it on-line because of the wealth of mail the office receive, they have a greater chance of processing your app incorrectly (or with delays) if you send it in via the mail than over the Internet. And there’s no way of knowing, except when they realize they’ve admitted too many people (as in the case of UC San Diego for our year). </p>
<p>The first part of the application is pretty self-explanatory. It’s where you live, who you are, who your parents are, where you went to school, etc. etc. It allows the admission people to understand the environment in which you live in … to picture how your childhood has been like. It doesn’t really matter admission-wise. The second part is more important. If you’ve attended summer school that was not graded for credit, do not fill in the school under colleges and universities, because the college will ask you to submit a transcript. For your high school, you should have them submit your transcript (as in the official sheet that has all your marks from your courses during secondary school) directly to Brown by mail. Also, have your school seal the transcript in your school’s official envelope so that the admission office knows that no one has tampered with your transcript. </p>
<p>Now test scores. Filling this out does not mean that you don’t need to order scores from SAT/ACT/ or any other testing org that you may have tested with. You must still order official test reports from your testing source so that they are directly submitted to Brown from the testing organization. (SAT charges something like $10 for this.) If you score above a 600 on the SAT Verbal, you will not need to take the TOEFL, which I’m sure you’ll be able to ace the SAT Verbal … you live in the UK! A good SAT score to start with is a 2100 or 2200, but of course applicants to Brown usually aim very high. (use your imagination)</p>
<p>For honors/honours, think of something important that you have done in school. Do not put trivial things here, like winning an essay contest in your school. Brown admission officers aren’t usually very impressed with those things. If you’ve won something on a regional or national level, say a Science Fair or Chemistry or Physics Olympiad, or another academic competition of prestige, put that there. If you have nothing, don’t be concerned, just leave this part empty. People have gotten into Brown without being geniuses. You may also choose to put any sports awards here if they are of regional or national level, something that is noteworthy and raises eyebrows. DO NOT LIST VOLUNTEER/COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS HERE. If you’ve published a paper in a prestigious journal (or in conjunction with a noteworthy researcher) or you’ve won a national writing award, you may put this here as well.</p>
<p>The next part … extracurriculars, essays, interviews, recommendation letters, and declaring a major (which really is no where near as important as it is in the UK) … I will touch on once I get back from what I need to do.</p>
<p>Hey ukstudent again,</p>
<p>I hope you’re finding my info useful. I have a math test and research applications that I need to send out to profs, but I guess you’ve waited long enough. </p>
<p>An extracurricular is an activity that one does outside of school. It may be a sport, community service or volunteering (a job that doesn’t pay … you just do it out of good will), playing in a band or orchestra, academic organization (does extra stuff outside of the classroom, a venue where you apply knowledge and skills to make yourself better … not to be confused with being tutored). Things like that … things that you do to go the extra mile. Now, leadership is defined as having a position of authority in the organization. For example, you maybe a webmaster (or you are in charge of the web site of some organization) or your a captain of your football (we call it soccer) team. You may not have any of these and that’s okay too. </p>
<p>For your essays, you don’t have to be scholarly. The admission officers just want to understand you on a more personal level, so tell them a life story … something that happened to your life and (maybe) what it meant for you or tell them about something that you are passionate for … what you like to do just for fun (it may be something weird, like cooking or creating music). Admission officers love people who are true to themselves. For one thing, don’t overblow what you do. </p>
<p>Interviews are unlike those in the UK. They will usually ask you things similar to the essay and are very casual in nature. Not sure if they are offered on an international basis. Overall, they’re not important.</p>
<p>Give your recommendation letters to teachers who know you well … perhaps you’ve done something for them outside of class. It doesn’t necessarily mean give it to the teacher who taught the class you performed the best in (earning the highest marks) … You could also give it to a teacher who taught a class where you struggled at first but ultimately pulled through. Things like that. Just make sure the rec letters are personal and can provide admission officers an additional perspective. </p>
<p>Now declaring a major. What do you want to study? Pick anything! It doesn’t matter. Admission officers here realize that many people ultimately change their choice of major, they just want to know what you’re interested in now. It probably will have almost zero bearing on your admit result.</p>
<p>Lastly, good luck! if you have any questions, please feel free to PM me or reply to this post. Understand that I am a full-time university student now and life is getting busy, so I may take some time before replying to them.</p>