Appeal to Brown

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>ilovepeople712, I respect your hardwork and dedication. U of C is a wonderful school! When you enter there, I hope you’ll use less time thinking about Brown and refrain from comparing it U of C excessively, because that might stop you from fully enjoying life at U of C. Just let things work out naturally, and follow your heart’s desire. You may eventually decide to transfer to Brown. I say go for it if that’s what you really wish.</p>

<p>The whole process of college application is like a lesson for life. We are all winners if we learned something from it. I hope you have learned that, sometimes, happiness comes from low expectations. =) Work more but expect less, and don’t compare yourself with others. That may leave you feeling happier in the end. =)</p>

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<p>"e been basically screwed to the worst position in my life. "
Its not you were screwed others got lucky </p>

<p>“never had a counselor, a tutor, connections, legacy. just a kid who worked her butt off to get into brown and hoped that pure merit could get her in. the best extra curriculars in my entire school. 2140 SAT. (i guess it’s average for brown)”</p>

<p>Well take this as a lesson in life, the people who work the hardest do not always get what they want, in fact they often do not get what they fully deserve. People get lucky breaks, others get screwed, its life, deal with it.</p>

<p>“the kid who was accepted from my school is known for having cheated in high school”
Sounds like Ivey league material to me already, LOL. Don’t you realize all the wall street bankers who ruined america are just like this kid, a bunch of incompetent ivory tower egg head ivey leagurers who cheated, thats why our economy is broke. Wall street is full of people from the ivey leagues and most of them are engaging in at the very least unethical behaviour.</p>

<p>" and he has a sibling attending brown. the kid who got wait listed was a two time legacy with ZERO extra curriculars. another girl i know who was accepted has parents with a history at brown and in addition her parents paid 1,000 bucks to get her essay edited by the princeton review. "
Realize alot of the ivey league admission process is about who you know, it is about culture and all that fluffy non sense of coming from the right class and speaking the right way or acting in a certain manner. Taking the best grade students is not their top concern and they acknowledge that they look at holistic factors.</p>

<p>“it’s not fair.”
I agree it is not fair that ivey league school get to be dicks and turn away good students and take bad ones but what are you (or even me) going to do about it. Sue Brown for being unfair or bias to children and siblings of alumni. I think you will find in university you will be put in a great deal of situations where you be treated purposely unfair (by professors) for no other reason than for them to teach you the life lesson that your going to be treated unfairly for life.
" what did i do wrong to deserve these circumstances? i’ve never cried so much–or felt so lost. i wanted everything and more to go to brown."
You never did anything wrong, the circumstances where beyond your control, just understand that it is not personal and that had you parent gone to brown you would be admitted right now.
" i did everything i could, despite not having any connections or help along the way. "
Thats ok, sometimes you try your best and you fail, its part of life, everyone cannot get into brown</p>

<p>"i never had a tutor for my SATs. I bought a book and studied myself and brought my score up 270 points. "
good for you</p>

<p>“i always believed i was the type of kid brown looks for. hardworking, passionate, intellectual, curious, creative, artsy. i’m crying while typing this.”
Nope ivey league is only looking for people who can promote their cause and give them money or who are over the top intelligent. George Bush got into yale, do you think they cared about the fact that he was an alcoholic, lazy, hardly intellectual, definetly curious but not in a good way, creative as a paper mache cup, lack of art talent, nope. there are lot of good schools besides brown</p>

<p>“i wanted to go to Brown SO badly. more than anything. i showed incredible interest. but of course, the kids who they accept are the ones with connections.”
Its like real life, do you know why people run for office, its not because of the lousy salary that they can make 10 times the amount in the private sector, or all the free bies, or the power or prestiege, it is the countless amount of connections that a politicians makes. Connections are what count in this world, you seem like a smart kid, you got rejected-thats a failure, but take your failure and turn it into a life long learning lesson, remember connections count from now on.</p>

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<p>O ya, and as for an appeal to brown, well, you better show them procedural irregularity if you want even a 1% chance. Show them why you should have been accepted over xyz. You will need to have a great deal of facts and it will be very hard for you to win because the applications process is so unbias in the sense that they never see your face and your application is evaluated by multiple people.</p>

<p>What are you going to say in the appeal, I’m a good candidate? They have lots of good candidates its brown.
The only chance you have is really to ask them to review your application and question them thoroughly on how they made the decision to see if you can find any mistakes. Only if you find some kind of mistake (or if you can for example provide actual proof that the other kid is a cheater - like written proof, preferably coming from your old schools information records-which would require you to hire a private investigator or request records under the freedom of information). Then and only then would you have a chance of getting in on appeal. And thats still no guarantee you get in, they might kick him out and replace him with a higher ranking candidate</p>

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<p>There’s no use in resurrecting dead threads. This was from admissions for the class of 2013.</p>

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<p>I feel so bad for you, i lovepeople712. Yeah, the whole selection process is really arbitrary. You have to be an athelete, have connections, be super rich, or be better than Einstein to get in to an Ivy League.</p>

<p>Think about it though, if you are TRULY talented and work hard to get where you are now, then not getting in an Ivy should not stop you from succeeding in LIFE. I know that doesn’t really help, but just know that some of the best, most successful, most intelligent people didn’t even pass high school (BILL GATES haha). Life’s too short to mope around. There’s nothing to bitter about. Punch a pillow (or a dozen), call up a friend, cry until you run out of tears, eat some ice cream, watch a movie, and sleeeeeeeep! You’ll feel better in a week, I know it!</p>

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<p>… Well, he/she has had more than a year to feel better about it.</p>

<p>LOOK AT THE DATE, EVERYONE.</p>

<p>Case closed.</p>

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<p>This is an old thread–but here’s something from a more recent thread, posted by ilovepeople712:

So perhaps this will be of some benefit to somebody who’s feeling bad now.</p>