<p>^ Minimum of 2 for Brown and maximum of 4 (I believe). Subjects aren’t necessarily needed except it makes sense to get recommendations from your intended major. However, I applied as a math major and I got 3 recommendations: My junior/senior year chemistry teacher, my freshmen/junior year english teacher and my senor year english/tok teacher. I was accepted ED. So, you can still make it work. I just didn’t trust the math teachers in my school for a good recommendation.</p>
<p>just got pleasantly surprised that Brown is open to international applicants through Questbridge. I have always been in love with this school. So I’m applying =)</p>
<p>I ran into a web site with stats on over 7k applicants, mostly to top 20 schools and in a matrix which has high statistical significance Brown ranked 6h overall as the top choice with only HYPS slightly ahead of it…I believe it outranked Penn and not sure if Columbia was ahead of i saw it ahead of MIT, Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, and others that US news ranks higher. So students given the choice choose Brown a lot and that is why its entry stats for percentiles on SATs are almost identical to the top 4 or 5 others…</p>
<p>I think I’ll apply to Brown as a reach. I have complete confidence in my abilities to succeed at such a school, but my weighted GPA is only a 3.7 and at my school this past year, I was only in the top 29 percent.</p>
<p>I’m probably transferring, so that at least my rank will go up. Is it even worth it?
I sound very trite and run of the mill, but i’m also very confident my writing abilities and think I could be very convincing in my essay.</p>
<p>somethingmonica, don’t worry about your GPA and your rank. I believe you should definitely go for it. I always tell the people who feared of being rejected to their dream schools, but again, if they don’t try to apply, they will never know if they will get into their dream schools or not. Only the admission deans will know if you will be the best fit into the school or not, only they decide, and don’t try to listen to what other people say to you, like, “Well, you shouldn’t apply because of your GPA and such.”</p>
<p>I would love to go to Brown. I feel that I’m very qualified, but my class is arguably one of the most competitive in my school’s history and it’s going to make it that much harder to get into a school like Brown over dozens if not hundreds of other applicants.</p>
<p>Anyways, I feel like I would be incredibly happy at Brown. It was one of the best colleges I’ve been to/toured at, all of my friends who go there love it, and I absolutely love Providence.</p>
<p>Sheesh y’all. Tis a dream.</p>
<p>I’m finally going to visit Brown later this month, but I’m quite certain that it’s one of my top choices. I’m applying RD, though, because I have no interest in any kind of binding decision plan.</p>
<p>I’m not a big fan of ED admissions either.</p>
<p>Saw your post about applying ED to Brown, well oops I replied to a guy talking about ED in 2009–hey did that work out for you???
Anyway, since topic of ED still up here FWIW when we toured Brown the admissions person who headed the info session said specifically, “Do not apply ED!”. She did not say much more about it but there are a lot of reasons its not good, mainly as you are locked in and could get into school you like more, and also the financial aid, though they swear its the same, could wind up way better at another school. If you are wealthy enough to lock in and sure its number 1 choice great.If its a reach I do not think you are likely to get in any much more easily than in RD pile. You might actually have more time to add a few meaningful grades and ECs also by applying RD. But hey you gotta do what you gotta do. Only thing I am advising my D is to possibly do EA on maybe one school…I think that EA is not binding but if she got into this school I am sure she would take it, I do not know why Brown does not go with non-binding EA instead. It seems a lot more reasonable and less hard on families who may not be able to swing the money stuff. ED has been proven to benefit mainly rich caucasian kids…not just saying it, its states all over the place and its why P and H got rid of it.</p>
<p>Dartmouth guy!
You are are an embarrassment to the Dartmouth admissions committee who accepted you (I assume you got in by your ID). Sitting on CC when you are already admitted trashing Brown as “Not a serious academic institution” sure makes it sound like you applied and have sour grapes. Why else the vitriol for one of the finest colleges in the US?
Seems that students given the choice prefer Brown with it ranking as the 7th most popular choice vs. Dartmouth being 14. Now old US news ranks Dartmouth 11 and ranks Brown 16 but the US news parameters are pretty weak. Opinions of other colleges deans and administration of the other schools as a major factor? Okay. How about the students rankings of their teachers quality etc. How about which kids are the “happiest” attending, which Brown ranks in Princeton Review consistently as number one or two. Sure, you will say its cause they are all partying and drunk. Students with 2300 SATs, 750 SAT 2 subject tests, 5s on their APs and ranking in top 6% of their HS are usually major slackers who just want to take all their classes S/NC.
The reason its more popular is because kids see that the administration has a liberal attitude towards the students and trusts them to pursue their passion, even if it does not fit a cookie cutter mold.</p>
<p>Personally, I think you can get the exact same quality of education at Dartmouth or Brown with maybe slight variances depending on your major, but its mainly what YOU make of it. Now stop wasting time her and embarrassing the ADCOMS at Dartmouth for making a bad choice on you. You are not doing anything to make your school seem more likeable, just reinforcing the notion some people have that it attracts more conservative, snooty types…which I disagree with except in your case. If my D got accepted to both Dartmouth and Brown I would not even enter into the discussion helping her to choose. To me its a personal choice and I see them as pretty much equal. Now if it were me, I would prefer Brown because of its willingness to trust students…“give then enough rope to hang themselves” is probably how you would see it. Well, that takes a certain amount of really progressive thinking from the administration. When we visited the concept was, “Every kid who is in a class is in that class BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE IN IT!” Now that seems like encouraging passion. Of course you can not avoid classes you may not want if you are pre-med or engineering. And the admcoms person said that typically students at Brown take between 1 and 3 classes S/NC…so much for that assertion.</p>
<p>Now I will bet my D gets into Dartmouth and not Brown, then I might be inclined to suddenly have sour grapes like you seem to. “Not a serious academic institution?” THe guys at Pixar who named Andy (of Toy Story fame-Tom Hanks right?) after their beloved Computer Science teacher at Brown might beg to differ with you on Brown not being serious-then again they are just millionaires making cartoons so maybe they are not serious!
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<p>Interested in applying to Brown! 
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<p>Is the Supplement for 2011 admissions out - I can’t find a link for one at the Brown website, but there is one up on Common App (or is that last year’s?)</p>
<p>^ Brown supplements are under Common App Supplement section. </p>
<p>Applying to Brown from Canada as my first choice, ED (:
I know I’m not the strongest candidate when it comes to stats, but I really love Brown for what they have to offer and what I can do to make the most of it. Love the school, hoping for the best as I write my essay at 6:40 in the morning (;</p>
<p>Oh my goodness, a lot of people are trying to get on those essays! I have no idea what to write… actually, no. I have a lot of ideas, but I don’t know if my ideas are too crazy or too normal. I don’t want to write about my accomplishments-so typical! At the same time, I don’t want to scare away the admissions officers haha…</p>
<p>Who’s an international applicant here? SAY “I”!
We gotta stick together :D</p>
<p>^ I think Brown’s essay topics kind of call for some craziness - in a good way. I mean, of course, there’s the “why Brown” essay that can’t be that crazy, but the long-answer topics are actually quite interesting.</p>
<p>And where are you from? (I’m an international, too!)</p>
<p>Yeah, so I decided this a while ago but I’ve decided to apply to Brown ED, considering I wub Brown much much more than any other school and finances won’t be a hindrance. So hello, fellow EDers!</p>
<p>I’m from Canada where are you from?
& to Basajaun: I would totally apply ED except I might change my mind last minute. Brown is an amazing school and I would love to go there :)</p>
<p>I’m applying RD. I would apply ED, but it’d be a lot of money to go with the income my family makes. So if I get in and it looks good, I’ll go. If not, I’ll go to somewhere like it for grad school while I save money going in state for undergrad.</p>
<p>I’m from Northern California.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t know anyone else IRL who is applying anywhere ED, it doesn’t seem to be a very popular option around these parts.</p>
<p>I just visited Brown and I absolutely loved it! Definitely applying RD, most likely PLME.</p>
<p>@ RainbowSprinkles</p>
<p>Same! I live in Toronto (: how about you?</p>