<p>WHO ELSE IS APPLYING BROWN EARLY?? So exciting!</p>
<p>ME!!! I hate/love this supplement.</p>
<p>I submitted my app today! :)</p>
<p>Me!
So excited!!
Does anyone know if submitting my subject test scores around the 20th will be a problem?</p>
<p>It shouldn’t be! Brown does everything electronically and they don’t start looking at apps/have all of the pieces of every app completely together for a few days I think!</p>
<p>I want to apply ED because Brown is my dream school but I am taking my SAT Subject Tests in November. Would I be able to apply to Brown ED and if so how?</p>
<p>hey guys. does anyone know if november sat scores count?</p>
<p>They say they will “consider” them but strongly urge you get them done by October. Not sure what this means in practice…</p>
<p>yeah i mean i’m happy with my october score but i think i can do a little better in november so i will go ahead and those also.</p>
<p>@rd2012
How do you know your October scores already?</p>
<p>well i basically know how i did by checking my answers with the collegeconfidential sat threads.</p>
<p>Hello Brownie Hopefuls! I too am applying ED 
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<p>QUESTION FOR YOU ALL:
I posted an actual thread on this today, but thought I might give it a try in here too. So I went on the Common App today to read over my Brown Supplement questions before I submitted them. To my horror, all the questions had increased in character length by like 100. I know its only like a few sentences, but still, that changes things. I’ve read that a few of you have submitted, and considering that this change occured like today…isn’t this an advantage for the later applicants. Do I need to/Should I rewrite or add more to my responses?</p>
<p>Hey fellow EDers.
Uhhhh the character count increased? Oh my gosh I need to go check on this immediately</p>
<p>yeah wth the character count increased. thankfully i didn’t submit my supplement yet but now i have to re-edit all of my essays</p>
<p>Hey just popping in to give a morale boost!
Don’t worry, just keep on chipping away at that supplement! Work hard, and try not to stress so much.</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY!
<3</p>
<p>JUST SUBMITTED ED! Good luck to everyone…( we need it!)</p>
<p>I would find that very hard to believe that a cut off would be that high as an “absolute”. Brown takes many things into consideration, and SATs are only one factor. Also, unless a candidate feels that there is going to be something that is going to significantly change (which in some cases might be board scores) there is no penalty to applying ED if the student is truly sure that Brown is their absolute, decided first choice school. In the worst case scenario, you find out early that you are not what they are looking for. In the mid range, you might be, and the decision is deferred into the regular pool. (and they MAY be deciding to put a higher number into that pool) and best case, they know you are very sure you want to go to Brown, you have the right stuff, and you are in! I don’t know of any ED schools that make their ED pool/deferred criteria tougher than the students they take as regular decision.</p>
<p>And I was hoping that ED would help :/</p>
<p>As a Brown student who runs info sessions in conjunction with Admissions Officers, and hence spends plenty of time listening to our Officers on and off the record, I feel that I need to step in here. Simply put: Brown has no SAT cut-offs. </p>
<p>Your SAT score will neither guarantee you admission to Brown nor preclude you from gaining admission. The SAT is one four hour long test. As such, it is in no way given equal, let alone superior, weight compared with your high-school transcript during the admissions process. Furthermore, Brown is not a school that places among its top priorities being ranked highly by a magazine. Had admissions wanted to, in the past it could have admitted a class filled exclusively with students who gained 800 points on at least one section of the SAT, and Brown’s ranking would have theoretically soared. Yet, admissions has never done this. Why not? Because it is not students having great SAT scores alone, but rather students having a diversity of perspectives, intellectual vitality, passions, and warmth that make Brown such an amazing place. Hence, it is students with these qualities, rather than exclusively test-taking abilities, that, as far as I have been able to glean, Admissions seeks among its applicant pool.</p>
<p>Also, as far as ED is concerned, Admissions has the same standards for RD and ED applicants. ED is the better option if you know Brown is your first choice, as if you are admitted, it will save you LOADS of work and stress. The main substantive difference between RD and ED is that with ED your application is considered during the ED admission round, and if deferred, it is considered again during the RD admission round. Hence your application is de facto considered twice - the admission rate of deferred ED applicants is essentially equal to that of normal RD applicants.</p>