<p>Since these threads popped up on the Harvard and Yale boards, I thought I’d create one here! Hooray for us stressed juniors! 
Good luck to everyone next year, and congrats to everyone accepted this year!</p>
<p>i look at this and almost want to cry that i dont need to go through this process again until graduate school, but by that time I’ll be more confident because of Brown’s amazing ability to make their students successful. GOOD LUCK AND START THE APPLICATION PROCESS ASAP!!!</p>
<p>Hii, just wondering when you started your application. When do you think we should start the application/do you know when it’s avaliable?
Thanks for the advice, and congrats on getting into Brown! :D</p>
<p>Thanks for starting this thread!!! I’m so pumped/stressed about college next year -__-</p>
<p>Brownnnnnnnnnnn</p>
<p>Honestly, I waited until the start of school to do my application (I got into the PLME and regular Brown), but I wouldn’t advise that. Try to get a start over the summer, if you can.</p>
<p>Take your time with the essays, write and rewrite them. I can’t stress how important they are, especially as the number of applicants gets bigger and bigger, the essays are really one of the few parts of the application you can still completely control at this point and use to show a different side of yourself.</p>
<p>Ooooo, mmk. Thanks for the advice :]</p>
<p>I still have this on my list, even though it’s not as natureish as I’d like. Because I <3 Brown. So I’m definitely applying, probably ED.</p>
<p>PROBABLE ED APPLICANTS:
Jaddua</p>
<p>(haha, this list is probably going to die with this post)</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m soooo nervous, already. But excited at the same time!</p>
<p>To the Prospective Class of 2015:</p>
<p>I do not know how much hope I can offer you as one of the many rejected from Brown’s class of 2014. I can assure that Brown was in my heart and soul my top choice, and as much as you embrace and expect the rejection, it often doesn’t hit as hard as you thought it would.</p>
<p>From personal experience, I cried over MIT and Stanford, and I think over getting waitlisted at WashU too. However, I think I cried over all those places because I hadn’t heard from Brown yet, and I thought my rejection there would impede my ability to go to Rhode Island for school.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, plenty of people rejected from Stanford and MIT got into and were waitlisted at Brown, although I was not one of them.</p>
<p>However, I can say, that rejection from a dream school is like getting a shot. You fret and worry about it until the needle goes in, and then you realize that it wasn’t as bad as you originally thought.</p>
<p>Face it, if you’re applying to Brown, you’ve got some pretty impressive credentials. Credentials that will take you far in life. And, even if you aren’t going to Brown, you’ll be in a new environment after next year, experiencing new things.</p>
<p>This of course, all implies that you’ll be rejected. Odds are, many of you posting on this forum won’t be. So, start working on those applications. The more times you proof your essay, the better!</p>
<p>But remember, you future seniors, that there are things you will do that the admissions office will never see, and frankly, couldn’t care less about. These things are important too. Don’t miss out on your last year of high school because you want your Brown application to be perfect because then you will be behind all the rest.</p>
<p>So, from the bottom of my heart, good luck prospective class of 2015!</p>
<p>So nervous about applying!!</p>
<p>My school doesn’t send Unweighted GPA…so do the colleges only look at the GPA the HS sends?</p>
<p>I feel so lost as a Europlant (our affectionate name for the expats, like myself, living in the European international school bubble). It’s all so unorthodox. But I managed to get over to the US, visited Brown yesterday and fell in love! I didn’t realize how hugely important it is to actually visit a campus to really know anything about it. After the tour/info session I feel as if I now know exactly what the word “quirky” was intended for. I think I’m in love with my tour guide, too. Not that that serves as any kind of incentive. Promise.</p>
<p>@europlant: I applied from Europe 
so good luck</p>
<p>im really surprised that i got in. but my interviewer sent me a message saying how i was one of the most notable people shes talked to in the 6 years shes been doing this. i guess you just have to be a good fit for the school. i know it sounds vague. but i think everything that im doing now and my future goals and my interest in my field just made me an attractive student. i didnt want to hope for brown too much because of numbers, but just try to be yourself and show some passion that you have that isnt related to going to brown. tbh my why brown essay was SUPER weak. but between the abstract essay, the interview, and who i am as a student i got in. and now i want to go to brown even more :P</p>
<p>good luck</p>
<p>I started working on my common app may of 2009. Finished with my final copy round august. Other essays I worked on from july (when supplement came out) to october. I recommend starting asap. I rly feel as if my essays made a huge difference</p>
<p>I always worry though that starting as early as April/May of junior year can set certain parameters on the final copy - you can change it in terms of content, style, punctuation, etc, but if you lay the groundwork down in May when you might have been able to come up with something more thoughtful in August, I worry that you set yourself limitations based on what you could come up with in junior year. I guess it’s about finding the line between maturity of thought and of style, which I guess I consider less than optimum before you hit the summer of senior year. But maybe that’s just me, being pedantic as usual. I may just need that time to come up with a gimmick. How is shamelessly pandering internationalism? :)</p>
<p>Brown economics hopeful here!</p>
<p>engineering~</p>
<p>I might apply ED, anyone else?
-economics/applied mathematics major</p>
<p>europlant, the point isn’t to get your topic perfect the first time. I have 50 essays+ on my computer of failed essays lol. I just worked and worked and worked until I found the perfect topic that represented me as a person along with a very intellectual perspective.</p>