@Bluebrry Lol UCLA rejected me and comparing to some who got it I didn’t understand why. Now the best school I have is UMich. I definitely think private schools are better than public ones, since I pay about the same being international. I like UMich but I’d die for Brown.
@BrownPlsThx I wish you best luck too. I have few schools left, some which I have no hope for whatsoever. but there’s still the chance
Concentration, etc…
Me:
Concentration:
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.
Brown UG “LL” recipient:
Yes.
Applied to PLME or RISD:
Yes, PLME.
Location:
FL.
Received email reminder of decision release date/time:
No.
When did you receive the LL? Thanks!
.
@Bluebrry The worst thing we can do to ourselves right now is to lose hope. Superstitious or not, let’s believe that the best always comes last, and that a rough process will lead to a happy ending!
Does anyone know (from previous years) if after you log into the portal at decision time, your decision letter automatically pops up? Or you have to click something like view decision?
@stressedblessed I’m not sure about Brown, but everywhere else from which I have received a decision so far has offered a link in the portal to a decision, so I think Brown will do the same.
@jl2800 apparently they sent mine to my school address on March 8, but that’s the day my spring break started so I haven’t seen the physical letter yet. But I got a follow up email on Tuesday–that’s actually how I found out!
@stressedblessed When my daughter applied a few years ago, there was a link to click on to view the admissions decision after she logged in the Brown portal.
To those lucky few who got LLs, what was the one thing you think really made your application stand out? Was it test score? Amazing ECs? Legacy?
@ORM1229 Most probably a combination of factors. But, if I have to make an educated guess, in DD’s case, I would say, her interdisciplinary research interest, which is very much aligned with an existing research track at Brown, plus her Intel STS research report that detailed her work.
@ORM1229 I was totally shocked when I got mine. I don’t think that for me it was any one thing, since I haven’t done any one particular outstanding thing that would make me irresistible to colleges. But I did emphasize fit and emotional connection to Brown in my “why Brown” supplement so maybe they just felt a connection? I really have no idea.
S just got his rejection from Stanford.
Given it’s incredibly low selectivity, it wasn’t a big surprise. Not as brutal as the rejection from Berkeley yesterday.
We’re hoping that his many years of acting in community theater and at the junior college level, that his chances at Brown are somewhat better. His interviewer seemed genuinely interested in his academic and theatrical portfolios.
ACT 33
WGPA 4.6
UWGPA 4.0
Hooks: URM, 2 years of AP Research class (Capstone)
EC: 10 years acting; 10 years sailing
Hospital volunteer during the summer
Tutor for AP Chem, APUSH, AP World History
Accepted to UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCD, UCI, UCR, UCM, UCSC, Cal Poly SLO, Cal Poly Pomona
Frost Scholarship to SLO
Chancellors Scholarship to UCR
CHP at UCI
Rejected: Berkeley, Stanford
Waiting to hear from Brown, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth
Thoughts on submitting supplementary material this late in the game? Should I notify the dept. through email first or will uploading it be enough?
It’s a 20-page article commissioned last month by a gallery in my city for an event. They read some of my blogging through a friend and were looking for a cheap “youthful” writer. Ended up getting brief positive mentions in some major regional newspapers. Qs: Is that too long and should I just use an excerpt, do I buy a copy of those newspapers/is that generally not worth mentioning, and not that this ups my chances but in case none of this even slightly helps, what are some good alternative career paths for a failed writer with no skills?
@DefineHuman no, they probably made their decision already
Well, if it can’t help, can it hurt? Not to seem like I’m disregarding your opinion here, but I’d like to at least feel like I’ve done all I could (plus, reading something you researched and wrote in print was pretty awesome, and seemingly a significant enough event to notify them of—it’s not a Nobel but it at least it’s something, right?).
@DefineHuman I mean you could. But, I tried to do something like that as well late february, but i was late too. I mean, you could, but they’re not going to change the decision that was already made.
Maybe I should take up voodoo. Or Crossfit.
@Bluebrry Hey, what do you mean by “I tried to do something like that as well late february, but i was late too.” Did you send it and they told you that it was too late to be considered? Or did you just not end up sending it?.. I sent one in late february and was hoping it would be considered… 