Brown Class of 2019 ED Results Thread

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<p>Decision: Deferred</p>

<p><a href=“International%20Relations”>b</a>**</p>

<p>Objective:

[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[</em>] ACT (breakdown): 35 (35E/33M/36R/36S) 12 essay
[<em>] SAT II: 730 Lit, 720 US History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA: not available, most likely >3.9
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.71
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/305
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5s on Lang & Comp and APUSH; 3 on Bio (ew)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Macroeconomics, AP Calc AB, AP Lit, AP US Gov, AP World History, Spanish 4 Honors, Honors Concert Choir, typical PE class
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Scholastic Gold Key and Silver Key Awards for poetry, AP scholar, National Merit Scholar commended</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:

[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model UN, 9 awards (President & head-delegate 2013-15, VP 2012-13); Student Council (President and BOE rep 2014-15, VP 2013-14); school musical in ensemble/dance company/minor roles (2011-2015); jazz/chamber choir, placed 2nd and 4th at two national competitions (Alto section leader); Class Council of 2015 (president 2011-13); NHS (VP); published poet (published 3 times with Creative Communications, 3 times in print and 11 times online with Teen Ink, twice with the Live Poets of NJ); Mu Alpha Theta
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Just an internship at a local historic site
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Relay for Life team captain (3 years); tutoring biweekly through NHS; organizer of open mics, poetry slams, and movie nights at a teen coffeehouse in my town
[</em>] Summer Activities: took Intro to IR through the Young Scholars Program at the University of Maryland – I highly recommend the program!
[<em>] Essays: My common app essay is possibly the love of my life, my current AP lit teacher (who is also an English professor at NYU) raves about it any chance she gets. Although I was deferred, my advice for the commo napp essay is to choose any experience or moment that truly allows you to write your heart out! Brown specific supplements: Why Brown 9/10; where you have lived 10/10; group/community prompt 10/10; academic interests 6/10 (oops, I admit it was boring)
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: 147/10 from my AP Lang teacher (it honestly made me cry), 8/10 from my APUSH teacher
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t read, but probably average
[</em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[<em>] Interview: 10/10; 2 hours long in a Starbucks. It was certainly more like a conversation than an interview, so don’t be nervous. Besides the beauties of Brown, my interviewer and I ultimately ended up talking about mental illness and other life struggles for a while (#realtalk) so don’t be afraid to talk about whatever’s important to you!
[</em>] Supplementary Material (portfolio, etc.): N/A
[/ul]</p>

<p>Other

[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket: 100,000-150,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation
[/ul]</p>

<p>Reflection

[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: ECs, essays, ACT, rank/GPA
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT II’s, over-represented state, no huge awards, wish I submitted a music supplement, etc.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: ED applicants to Brown are obviously top-notch and it’s quite possible I just didn’t stand out enough! I plan on adding some awards and details about ECs in my post-deferral letter.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted to Northeastern (University Scholar full-tuition)
[/ul]</p>

<p>**General Comments: ** For me, applying ED to such an amazing school meant bracing myself for a deferral from the beginning. I wasn’t happy about my decision but I’m grateful that 1. Brown is giving me another chance and 2. I now have the opportunity to consider several other schools RD! Congratulations to those accepted, and for others who were deferred, hold in there! xx</p>

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<p>**Decision: Accepted **</p>

<p><a href=“Biochemistry%20&%20Molecular%20Biology”>b</a>**</p>

<p>Objective:

[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): did not submit
[</em>] ACT (breakdown): 35 (36E, 36M, 34R, 34S, 10W)
[<em>] SAT II: 780 Biology M, 790 Math II
[</em>] Unweighted GPA: 4.279 out of 4.300
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.600
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1st decile, valedictorian
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP US History-5
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Lit, AP Micro, AP Bio, AP Spanish, Band, Choir
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): not really that major, but 4th place and 2nd place awards at local science fairs</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:

[list]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): All-National Honor Mixed Choir, New York All-State Choir, Area All-State Band (principal trombone player for two years), Intermediate All-County Band and Choir, high school band-4 years (concert band, wind ensemble, jazz band, pep band, brass quintet, jazz combo, full orchestra; section leader), high school choir-4 years, fall drama-4 years, musical-4 years, drama club-3 years (treasurer-3 years), taekwondo-2 years (black belt and assistant instructor), National Honor Society, Big Buddy program, student newspaper staff writer-2 years
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Relay for Life (2 years), internship at town hall (3 years), church choir member (3 years), help with boy scout projects, internship at local farm (1 year)
[</em>] Summer Activities: science research (2 summers), internship at town hall (3 summers), Cornell University Summer College, band camp
[<em>] Essays: Common app: English teacher said it was one of the best she had ever read, spent one month on it; supplements: also spent one month on them, in Why Brown I talked a lot about my visits to campus and included information about my Experience Brown day
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: didn’t read, but I assume they were very strong. Asked teachers who taught the classes that I was most passionate about. They had seen how hard I had worked throughout high school and had me for more than one year. They also had expressed interest in the extracurriculars of the students and their lives outside of the classroom, which I felt was important.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: didn’t read. Counselor knew a lot about how academically motivated I was and how much I really wanted to go to Brown
[</em>] Additional Rec: didn’t have an additional rec
[<em>] Interview: Went very smoothly. Interview responded to my answers to his questions with “that’s the right answer” a few times.
[</em>] Supplementary Material (portfolio, etc.): Instrumental trombone supplement, vocal supplement
[/ul]</p>

<p>Other

[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): New York
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]</p>

<p>Reflection

[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Strong essays, strong extracurriculars, strong recommendations
[</em>] Weaknesses: dropped science research
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: applied EA to four other schools, but I heard from Brown first and then withdrew those other four apps before hearing back.
[/ul]</p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred</p>

<p>International Relations</p>

<p>Objective:

[ul]
[<em>]SAT I (breakdown):
[</em>]ACT (breakdown): 30 (E: 36, R: 33, M: 26, S: 26; W: 11)
[<em>]SAT II:
[</em>]Unweighted GPA: 3.8
[<em>]Weighted GPA: 4.6
[</em>]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 35/725
[<em>]AP (place score in parenthesis): Psychology (5), Lang (5), World History (5), US History (5), Macroeconomics (3), Microeconomics (3)
[</em>]IB (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>]Senior Year Course Load: APBio, AP Art History, AP Lit, AP Government, AP Stats, Entrepreneurship, Ethics in Business, Speech and Debate III
[</em>]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar w/ Distinction, I suppose.
[/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:

[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Creative Writer, Model UN (Founder of chapter; secretary, treasurer), Speech and Debate (Treasurer), DECA (executive), FIRST Robotics (CFO), Bowling (Varsity Captain)
[</em>]Job/Work Experience: N/A
[<em>]Volunteer/Community service: NHS, all Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation events
[</em>]Summer Activities: Writing, travelling, nothing notable
[<em>]Essays: Really good… essays are my strongest point.
[</em>]Teacher Recommendation: Exceptional, I think
[<em>]Counselor Rec: No clue
[</em>]Additional Rec:
[<em>]Interview: It went alright; I couldn’t really tell what my interviewer was thinking at any given time. Incredibly smart guy, though.
[</em>]Supplementary Material (portfolio, etc.):
[/ul]</p>

<p>Other

[ul]
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>]State (if domestic applicant):
[<em>]Country (if international applicant):
[</em>]School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: M
[<em>]Income Bracket: >50k
[</em>]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First Gen
[/ul]</p>

<p>Reflection

[ul]
[<em>]Strengths: Essays and recs
[</em>]Weaknesses: Tests, tests, tests…
[<em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Test scores. My right brain alignment is extreme.
[</em>]Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Deferred from UChi
[/ul]</p>

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**Decision: Accepted **

Computer Science

NOTE: I go to a vocational school

Objective:

  • [] SAT I (breakdown): 2350 (770W/800M/780CR)
    [    ] ACT (breakdown): -
    [] SAT II: 750 Physics, 720 Lit.
    [    ] Unweighted GPA: 4.0
    [] Weighted GPA: 4.3
    [    ] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 / 262
    [] AP (place score in parenthesis): school didn’t offer any for students that weren’t seniors
    [    ] IB (place score in parenthesis): -
    [] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc, AP Comp. Scien, AP English, Chemistry, Honors Social Contemp. , Programming & Web (vocational area), Programming & Web Related
    [    ] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): International WorldSkills Web Design Runner-up; SkillsUSA Web Design Silver Medalist ( National ); MA State Gold Medalist; 2-time district gold medalist

Subjective:

  • [] Extracurriculars (all are 4 years unless otherwise specified): NHS (3 yrs Treasurer), S.A.D.D. (Executive Council), Spanish Club (3 yrs), Soccer JV & Varsity, Basketball JV (2 yrs, tore ACL BOTH seasons of soccer junior & senior year; playing basketball without my right hand was part of my essay), SkillsUSA Competitor
    [    ] Job/Work Experience:
    [] Volunteer/Community service: made own charity website that recommends LGBTQA literature and earns money through link clicks. Over 300,000 donation clicks at time of my applying, web development for nonprofits SAC Entertainment and Center4LivingLearning; leader of my school web redesign project
    [    ] Summer Activities: ^ website above, though it runs all year; various programming and web design projects; teaching self C++, SFML, VS, Unity, etc.
    [] Essays: Wrote on how being born without my right hand made me strive to always improve myself.
    [    ] Teacher Recommendation: English (generic), Calculus (he literally begged to not have to write me one since he hates writing)
    [] Counselor Rec: Awesome, he knew me very well and wanted me to succeed
    [    ] Additional Rec: Programming & Web Vocational Instructor (knew me really well)
    [] Interview: I showed up to it on crutches since I’d torn my ACL during soccer season. Went really well though. Lady and I connected and I was myself through all of it.
    [    ] Supplementary Material (portfolio, etc.): art supplement of original digital music compositions; focus on merging classical and modern sounds together; I sang in it as well

Other

  • [] Applied for Financial Aid?: oh god yes
    [    ] State (if domestic applicant): MA
    [] Country (if international applicant): -
    [    ] School Type: Vocational
    [] Ethnicity: white
    [    ] Gender: Female
    [] Income Bracket: 70k but my mom who I live with makes 0k a year
    [    ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): born without my right hand due to constriction band syndrome

Reflection

  • [] Strengths: essay, essay essay – I was able to use something that most people would view as a defect and shed positive light on myself; also my supplements focused a lot on how much I want to create new things during my time at brown, SAT I, class rank; also a girl applying to a STEM major
    [    ] Weaknesses: vocational schools are not as academically rigorous; not many
    [] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I am lucky enough to have been born without my right hand, which gave me a killer essay topic and a uniqueness that I wouldn’t trade for anything. Also, my passion for CS shown through. I believe that my physical disability and my unique major interest set me “apart” from the rest of the equally-skilled applicants.
    [    ] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: ED @ Brown; didn’t need to apply elsewhere

**ADVISE TO APPLICANTS: ** Play off of what you have that no one else does. You need to find something that sets you apart. Don’t be general–a love for academics, passion, drive are all too generic. Make it specific, make it personal. Make sure the admissions office does not and cannot forget you. Your application is as much for you to get into Brown as it is for Brown to get you.

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I know that my reply is super late, so I’m sorry about that. But better late than never, right?

**Decision: Accepted **

Undecided

Objective:

  • [] SAT I (breakdown): 730 CR, 770 M, 780 W (2280 total)
    [    ] ACT (breakdown):29 (did not send)
    [] SAT II: 730 Math I, 730 Math II, 710 Literature
    [    ] Unweighted GPA: School does not calculate
    [] Weighted GPA: 95.5 (out of 100)
    [    ] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school does not rank/give percentile, but “just out of the top 20%” (21% maybe?)
    [] AP (place score in parenthesis): English lang and comp (5)
    [    ] IB (place score in parenthesis):
    [] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Bio, AP Calc AB, Honors Astronomy/Film and Media (semester courses), Psychology/Economics (semester courses), Theology of the Body/Religion, Science and Society (semester courses)
    [    ] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): lol no

[]Subjective:**

[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): (Founder/President) Pope Francis Forum for Diversity and Dialogue - we bring speakers to/offer cultural events at/have a support group for our school to promote acceptance/diversity; (President) English Honor Society; (Vice President) National Honor Society; National Spanish Honor Society; Mu Alpha Theta [Math Honor Society]; National Science Honor Society; Quiz Bowl; Philosophy Club; (Presider/Head of) Encompass - student support group started by the Pope Francis Forum for Diversity and Dialogue; Theater; Member of what was basically a Christianity discussion group
[] Job/Work Experience: sales associate at Gap (Sophomore-Junior year)
[] Volunteer/Community service: 60 hours helping disabled people maintain their homes
[] Summer Activities: above community service, also spent a summer coming to the school regularly to convince administrative members that the Pope Francis Forum for Diversity and Dialogue (PFFDD) was necessary
[] Essays: Common App (10/10): wrote about how through founding the PFFDD I came to appreciate conservative Catholics, who I’m supposed to hate because I’m a gay liberal
Why Brown (9/10): wrote about how I appreciated Brown’s work-life balance and the naked donut run
Where have you lived (?/10): wrote about how my dad’s death caused my family to move to South Carolina from Connecticut
Community (8/10): wrote about the people I sit with at lunch and how I shifted from thinking they were sheltered theater kids to appreciating their lives/experiences
Topic of Study (8/10): wrote about how I haven’t had enough exposure to different subjects to decide and how I’m always asking the question “Why?” when I’m learning something
[] Teacher Recommendation:Teacher 1 (9/10): extremely conservative football coach whom I debated with about LGBT rights on a semi-regular basis (respectfully, of course)
Teacher 2 (9/10): sassy history teacher who I volunteered at a Greek festival with
[] Counselor Rec: (9/10): I’ve gotten to know her pretty well throughout the ~college process~
[] Additional Rec: (10/10): teacher who I founded the PFFDD with, she told me it said I was the most mature student she’d taught in 19 years
[] Interview: it went pretty well, we had a nice conversation about Brown/cooking/being from rural areas
[li] Supplementary Material (portfolio, etc.): nope[/li][/ul]

Other

  • [] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
    [    ] State (if domestic applicant): SC
    [] Country (if international applicant):
    [    ] School Type: Competitive Catholic (~20% of grade has >2100 SAT)
    [] Ethnicity: White
    [    ] Gender: M
    [] Income Bracket: <35k
    [    ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection

  • [] Strengths: Extracurriculars, SAT score, essays/letters of recommendation
    [    ] Weaknesses: GPA, rank, volunteer/summer stuff
    [] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I showed a lot of passion/curiosity and justified why I wanted to go to Brown pretty well (in my opinion)
    [    ] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Deferred UChicago EA, Accepted to second round of Deep Springs College’s admissions

**General Comments: ** Don’t read/take in what you hear on this website! I know that sounds awful but I was considering applying ED to somewhere much less selective because I didn’t think my grades were high enough for Brown. Also, explain stuff that needs explaining, i.e. I signed up to take a much more rigorous course load but couldn’t because of scheduling issues. Finally, stop comparing yourself to others. This process is a crapshoot for everyone, and just because you’re not the Valedictorian/don’t have the highest SAT score in your school doesn’t mean you aren’t qualified for schools like Brown. The “intangibles” of your application, in my opinion, matter much more than a lot of people think they do.

Also, I’m not really sure how this works, but you can pm me if you want about college stuff/Brown stuff. Sorry again for being so late!

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Choose one:
**Decision: Accepted **

b**

Objective:

  • [] SAT I (breakdown): didn’t take
    [    ] ACT (breakdown): 34, E 34 M 34 R 35 S 32
    [] SAT II: didn’t take
    [    ] Unweighted GPA: 3.91
    [] Weighted GPA: 4.43
    [    ] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/350
    [] AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH 5, US Gov 5, Comp Pol 4, Lang and Comp 5, World History 5
    [    ] IB (place score in parenthesis): don’t have IB at my schools
    [] Senior Year Course Load: AP Phys 2, AP Chem, AP Lit and Comp, AP Calc BC, Choir, Spanish 4, and independent studies about Sudan and economics (both one sem. long)
    [    ] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none

Subjective:

  • [] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): A whole bunch. I did a huge amount of social justice work with planned parenthood and other organizations. I started a Dialogue group at my school, which was pretty big. All of my ECs were social justice except VP of NHS and VP of history club.
    [    ] Job/Work Experience: Internship with a state senate political campaign
    [] Volunteer/Community service: none??? idk I don’t remember listing any volunteer hours. I did say I volunteered with some organizations in the “Additional info” section, but I didn’t list hours or anything because I barely had any actual volunteer work. All of my EC stuff was social justicey.
    [    ] Summer Activities: The internship with the political campaign
    [] Essays: Common app was really good. About being adopted and jewish with divorced parents. Pretty sobby, but super triumphant and used extended metaphor of family tree.
    –My supplements were all about social justice. I live in St. Louis about 15 minutes from Ferguson, so I exploited that lol. My “why brown” didn’t focus on any specific attributes of the school, but I talked about my visit and how some students there inspired me.
    [    ] Teacher Recommendation: Not sure. One was super good from an english teacher who knew I wanted her to write about my social justice and in-class dialogue about those topics. Other was from a chem teacher who had me for both honors chem and AP chem, which was pretty eh I bet.
    [] Counselor Rec: Really good. She’s super into social justice and LGBTQ+ work, so we connected over that.
    [    ] Additional Rec: None.
    [] Interview: Really good, I think. We talked a lot about my independent studies. Independent studies are good I guess because, you know, independence.
    [    ] Supplementary Material (portfolio, etc.): none.

Other

  • [] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes (they gave me baaaaaaank)
    [    ] State (if domestic applicant): St. Louis, Missouri
    [] Country (if international applicant):
    [    ] School Type: Decent public school with around 1500 students.
    [] Ethnicity: White
    [    ] Gender: Man
    [] Income Bracket: 90k ish
    [    ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Adopted??? Does that count?? That’s it though.

Reflection

  • [] Strengths: literally my entire application was pointed to social justice. My recs, my EC’s, my essays. Everything. I have good scores and stuff too. HUGE upward trend in grades.
    [    ] Weaknesses: I had SUPER bad grades my freshman year w/ a whole bunch of B’s. (In the end, I think this helped me because it showed growth)
    [] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Social justice
    [    ] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Deferred Tulane EA, Waitlisted WashU, Accepted Truman State University. I also applied to Grinnell. Obviously once I got in I didn’t apply anywhere else lol.

**General Comments: **
SUPER EXCITED. It’s a crapshoot, and I hope everyone gets into a school they’ll enjoy.