@archaeologygirl I think you are over-analyzing it. I am a RD applicant and what I can say is that one of the recommended courses is one I mentioned in the Why Brown? essay. I doubt there is any correlation.
Where are you clicking to look at the courses?
My D can go into courses page and it says Welcome with her name.
She can see a long list of courses under Undergraduate
Is this the same for everyone?
She is an ED deferred
One day more
Another day another destiny
This never ending road to Ivy leagues
Those schools that seems to know my score
Will surely reject me anyways
One day more
(more like 23 hours and 36 minutes, but hey)
@2D2020- I think many kids were playing around and were able to add courses to the cart a few weeks ago, including D. Don’t know what any of this means- possibly nothing. Just another 23.5 hours…Best to keep busy and not think about it ( if possible).
@2D2020 If she has attended Brown summer school then the course selection and welcome info was activated from there.
@2D2020 @IviesRus Im RD and never did Brown summer school. In the upper right corner, It says “Welcome [name]”; I can also add courses to my cart, see things like “Other students like you took these courses…”, but cannot proceed with course registration.
I dont think any of this is a sign and am sure everyone can do it.
Other on the thread - feel free to check and comment
Okay, so I don’t have all those options with course selection and stuff. It’s possible that some people just have those links, but we all have access to those pages. One way we could test this is if someone posted the link for course selection (or the chem exam, or anything else ppl w/out options don’t have). If we paste the link into our browsers after loggin in and can access the webpages, then it means nothing. If not, then idk (although probs still nothing - LETS NOT STRESS GUYS)
^just a thought
course selection link (sign-in is in top right corner): https://cab.brown.edu/
We’ve been waiting for essentially 3 months and tomorrow by this time we will know. Ahhhh
@archaeologygirl So I was able to login - I’m guessing this doesn’t mean anything then
i don’t think so. i’m more concerned about the chem exam stuff because i don’t have that
Hey guys! In a way to make us all feel better, what would all of you say is your best “hook” on your app?
I’d love for someone to post the chem exam link…that one actually sounds promising. I’m concerned
@jacobpilawa haha, not sure if talking about our hooks will be reassuring, but I’ll go ahead. My big hooks are that I want to double major in history and theatre (apparently a rare combo) and that I’m a 2400 with a personality.
@collegebound1915 @archaeologygirl I remember someone with LL said he/she didn’t have the chem exam option. Don’t stress over it. We’ll make it!
@BrownPlsThx Ahh that’s good to hear!! I do feel a bit better. I think I need to go have a cup of tea and relax lol
I guess my “hook” is that I’m the first person in my school’s history to apply (and it’s been around for forever), have an almost perfect ACT, and wrote some crazy essays (wait, this one could go one way or the other…)
Okay I just joined the site to ease(?) some nerves about applying RD but can I note similarities across the ED/questbridge applicants that applied and got accepted.
- They all have a sense of liberalism. And obviously duh brown is a very liberal place but I’m talking about intersectional liberalism. On Twitter when you go profile to profile regardless of race or economic background they have this sense of ‘we gotta do something about our world.’ Also they all hate trump :))
- None of them are perfect. I mean this not berating those who got in but their character made up for things that may have been lacking in their profile. The scores truly were not everything or class rank were everything.
- Going along the they weren't perfect train, most of them have varying interests. Prospective engineers are in dance or other artsy courses while prospective poli sci majors have a foothold in AP Bio or Physics. They truly will take advantage of Brown's liberal curriculum
This is not me saying that if you have these traits you’re sure to get in but this is definitely what they were looking for (along with a splash of diversity). Even if I don’t get into Brown this year I’ll definitely apply as a transfer because it’s such a unique experience.
I was deferred and was swayed by the access I had before my deferral, I think all this access is regarding the summer program info I’m getting everyday by email pushes and flyers