<p>Sent in my application an hour ago after rewriting my What Don’t You Know? for like the fourth time.</p>
<p>Hey guys, has anyone received an official email from Brown after sending in the application? I sent in mine almost two weeks ago, and did get the confirmation email from Common App about both my supplement and the main portion. I never got an actual email from Brown though. Do they just not do this? Or are they just really behind?</p>
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<p>Don’t worry, they’re probably just swamped with applications. </p>
<p>When I applied under Early Decision, the admissions office had a backlog of applications to process, and I didn’t receive an email until a week and a half after I applied. Only 2,850 people applied through early decision, while over 22,000 people applied through regular decision. </p>
<p>Also, they might be waiting until the deadline has passed and the holidays are over to begin processing applications.</p>
<p>^Yeah, I’m assuming they’re just waiting to process applications. Until they have their first working day, I doubt anyone is going to get anything. Meh</p>
<p>@ rmadden, You still haven’t gotten your ACT scores? 
I would be so mad! Hopefully you get them soon. I really don’t want to take them again. I don’t want to go through all that studying… again! :p</p>
<p>Does anyone know the RD acceptance rate for international students? I don’t know whether I’m considered “international” or not, because though i’m a US citizen, I’ve been living in a foreign country since I was two.</p>
<p>sent in my appppp, whooo</p>
<p>You’re an American citizen. Don’t worry!</p>
<p>Our applications still go through the person in charge of your international region but you’re considered an American citizen, so you can still apply for financial aid and all that good stuff!</p>
<p>I remember asking the Brown admissions officer when she came to my school in China.</p>
<p>This is pretty ridiculous… For the first time, I actually had too much for the “Why School X?” essay. I just love Brown so much. It’s ridiculous. For one, my grandpa went there, and I admire him more than anyone else in the world. Not only that, but one of my best friends went to RISD when she graduated last year. Not only that, but Brown’s New Curriculum… Well, overused as it is, I love it. I can focus on working towards professorship in public health and medicine through their human biology major, but I can also explore everything else I love. I can keep dabbling in computer science. I can take a studio art class. I can study a smattering of the world’s religions. I can continue my four years of Spanish and one year of Chinese, and try out all the other languages I want to study, too. And despite not pursuing a career in art, as a currently employed illustrator and art enthusiast, I have all of RISD at my fingertips (except taking classes, haha, I did not choose to double-enroll; like I said, not pursuing that career)— not only the resources, but the social life. I’ve always thrived most in artistic social scenes.</p>
<p>That was part gushing and part introduction. Even though it’s a reach school, I’ve decided to primarily hunker down here for the rest of the admissions wait. Maybe I’ll even earn authorship of another decisions thread, hahaha (hopefully things won’t turn out like Stanford did, though…).</p>
<p>So, hello, everybody. I’m actually still polishing my Brown short answers and I’ll be submitting later today. After that, I just have Caltech and I’m done (though I admit I’m having second thoughts about applying there, everything else is already in, sooo… Nothing to lose? Haha.). So incredibly edibly glad that applications are basically finally done! Ahh!</p>
<p>Good luck to everybody! I hope we are all delicious Brownies by the end of the year!</p>
<p>Hey Prussia! I remember you from the Stanford thread. Nice to see you hanging out on the Brown thread now 
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<p>Brown is also one of my top schools now (a very close second to my first, Yale) after hearing bad news from Stanford a few weeks ago (it seems like it’s been much longer than that O.O). I love Brown for pretty much the same reasons as you. </p>
<p>Good luck to you too! </p>
<p>Haha, delicious Brownies. I love brownies :D</p>
<p>Good luck, all! </p>
<p>Sent mine in too. :P</p>
<p>My Why Brown essay was just me raving about <a href=“mailto:Summer@Brown”>Summer@Brown</a>… It was awesome! :D</p>
<p>Mmm, brownies.</p>
<p>I think I’m like a lot of the posters on here! If Stanford and Yale fail me, hopefully Brown doesn’t.</p>
<p>To drpvv, yeah, I can’t even handle this. I mean, those ACTs are my LAST chance, especially when I could have made my app just a little bit better.</p>
<p>:( I want to go so bad, but I’ve given up hope!</p>
<p>thank GOODNESS. haha i would hate to be in the pool of international applicants- not that my changes are really any higher in the US pool, but you know what i mean.</p>
<p>Anyone want to swap essays :)?</p>
<p>@ djayym: Tell me about it. I remembering looking at the stats for the PSAT and internationals had one of the highests scores needed to become a semifinalist.</p>
<p>Hahaha, well, I admit, if I were, by some miraculous fluke, accepted to say, Harvard, I would almost definitely choose that over Brown. However, I think Brown is the most realistic of my reaches (but it’s still a long shot), mostly because of my (somewhat questionable) legacy status, and it actually offers a lot of unique things that make me question whether I really would turn it down.
Especially RISD. I heart RISD.</p>
<p>At this point, though, I’m not letting myself get too set on any particular school. I love the idea of being a Brownie, but I won’t be too inordinately crushed if I’m rejected. …Hopefully. Haha.</p>
<p>^Yeah, I too am also trying to stay open to any possibility knowing my slim chances at any school of the private schools I applied to. If I’m accepted to any of them, I will def. attend them over the University of California schools I applied to. But I’m trying not to dwell on the likeliness of rejection. POSITIVE VIBES! Ahh!</p>
<p>Well now that I’m all philosophical after writing my Brown essays, positive vibes lead to positive energy.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter if you get in or not, as long as keep a positive outlook on life, grand outcomes will follow.</p>
<p>Who knows! Lightening could strike :)</p>
<p>Oooh hey Prussia! :)</p>
<p>Wowie, I admire your optimism but sadly, I try not to share it.</p>
<p>The only school I’d choose over Brown is Amherst. Sadly, I probably won’t get into either, they’re both huuuge reaches. Oh well. In retrospect I shouldn’t have gotten soo attached to Amherst - and to a lesser extent, Brown - but what can you do?</p>