<p>I recently applied to Brown via regular decision. Brown is my top choice school. I did everything I possibly could.</p>
<p>However, a guy in my school, ranking say 5th of the class (I rank 1st) also applied to Brown via Early Decision. This guy, I’m sure will make it into Brown. He said that his interview was phenomenal, and he’s very involved in extracurricular activities.</p>
<p>Now the decision comes out next week, but if he ends up getting accepted into Brown, does this mean that my chances are over? Since technically it is rare for an Ivy School to accept 2 kids from the same high school - especially a high school with a small class of only 400 students.</p>
<p>I am very anxious and disappointed. I would have done early decision, but the fact is - I don’t want to be bound financially to a school. My family simply can’t afford it. I don’t want my chances to be ruined because of this. Will they reject me simply because they accepted someone else from my school? I am very worried. My credentials are just as good as his - if not better. I am also the first to attend college and a minority. And I spent weeks on my supplemental essays as well as my main essay.</p>
<p>Please, can someone clarify if that would make a difference? Just because someone in my high school got accepted - does it mean I’ll get rejected? Are the odds really against me?</p>
<p>Brown doesn’t care who else got in from your school, they only care about you. If they want you, it doesn’t matter if 25 people from you school were accepted; they’ll accept you. The only thing that matters about which school you go to is how well you’ve taken advantage of what is available to you. Also, applying ED at Brown doesn’t give you any leg-up in the competition, so waiting to apply RD won’t hurt you at all. Good luck :)</p>
<p>You made the correct decision because Brown has a reputation for not being as generous with financial aid, you need to be able to compare packages. I also wouldn’t be so sure that your competitor will be accepted. Even if they are Brown won’t mind accepting two kids from the same school.</p>
<p>well maybe because you live IN RHOAD ISLAND. I know that’s a cheap shot. I live in a under-represented area in Virginia (not northern). I only know of 2 or 3 students who have got in to brown in the past 5 years, and I know of one from another local school who has got in. I am one of 3 or 4 applying to Brown ED at my school and I am the only guy applying to Brown ED or RD as far as I know from my school (if peeps from my school are reading this, hello to you). Now I am not the 2400/4.0 student, in fact I would say Brown is a major reach for me. However I have highly compelling extra circulars and I made a very good argument for myself when applying. What I have been hearing is that Brown really wants to see the motivation and some competence, but possibly more importantly a justification. If you got the motivation and if you got a compelling reason beyond “it’s an Ivy league” or “I want to join the pirate accapella group” (I do!) then you should have a reasonable shot as long as you are not a axe-murderer. Just by looking at class of 2013’s results, allot of kids with slightly lower SAT’s more often than not got in to Brown instead of the 2400 SAT 4.0 GPA god-incarnates because they did not have a reason to go to Brown. </p>
<p>That being said, and for me especially, they could just say my grades or SAT’s are not good enough and reject me for somebody else more qualified in the numbers. This could happen with anybody here. What I am hoping for (and you should too) is that they care more for this motivational reasons, but there is statistic for that so I am going nuts over here.</p>
<p>I just read the rest of this post… awkward… well I wrote all that crap above and I am not deleting it now… yeah…</p>
<p>Thank you, everyone. I find the holistic approach a better way to choose applicants. I like how the Ivy Leagues choose their candidates (mind you… it’s wicked hard to get in). But my friend applied to a state school here, and she is hardworking and assiduous. She didn’t make the Honors program, because state schools and less selective schools rely moreso on numbers - SATs, ranks, etc.</p>
<p>I know this isn’t Brown, but last year out of the 14 kids who applied EA to Yale 7 got in. </p>
<p>Mind you, my school isn’t the norm as we only have 120 kids and about 20-30% go Ivy each year. </p>
<p>In case you are still worried, you will have as good as a shot as if he didn’t apply assuming your school sends kids to Brown every year/every other year.</p>
<p>No worries. My school sends kids to Brown about once every 3 or so years, except the last 3 years when we sent one who’s now a junior, and two from my year. I don’t think anyone got in the year before.</p>
<p>My brother’s class had <em>less than 100</em> kids, and I think seven got into Dartmouth. Granted this is a very competitive school, but I’m just trying to show you that Ivys won’t overlook you just because someone took the first shot.</p>
<p>omg where do you people go? at my school we had 2 people last year go to ivies and one was an athlete. and im the first one in my high school to get accepted to Brown in 10 years!</p>
<p>I have always wondered about OP’s question. I can’t help but feel ivies have quotas on schools, especially relatively small public ones (cough mine)</p>