Having been a Brown interviewer for 22 years (and Area Chair for 4 years) , I can tell you that everyone is supposed to be offered an interview whether they are qualified or not. Sometimes, hopefully not often, applicants are not interviewed if the area they are in does not have enough alumni volunteers and/or the load is too much for the volunteers to handle. The bottomline, an interview does not mean you are being more strongly considered. However, the interview can be important, especially if Brown admissions is on the fence.
Hey yâall, for those of you who have applied for FA, when u login to the IDOC site, is Brown in your list? Do you have missing schools?
@harper3125 Brown was never in my IDOC list from the beginning. Maybe itâs cuz they donât require the tax returns for all internationals and only ask for them when they enroll?
Lol @harper3125 stop speculating over nothing.
Brown doesnât even request IDOC.
@greenfrogmemes Brown is an IDOC school, a school that uploads w2 and tax forms for the IDOC database
Brown does not require IDOC from everyone - only on request.
So if u were not requested Idoc by now does that mean u are probably rejected?
@bros20000 no.
I applied for FA and Brown didnât request IDOC from me! For reference, Harvard and Notre Dame both requested IDOC from me.
@rocklandmom Does it make any difference if the Brown rep did the interview over phone versus in person. Even when student offered to meet in person, rep insisted to have only over phone. In big metro commute takes time but in this case it is hardly 25+ miles and pubic train was there to reach the rep city. Curious if it made any difference. Thanks.
im so nervous!!! Brown is my dream school and I canât believe Iâll find out in less than a weekâŠ
While you are anxiously waiting for the results, if you have not watched the video âHangout On Air with Brown University Admissions Officers â What Happens After You Press Submitâ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDKLQnheUUk), please take some time to watch it. Madison Frye was the only admit last year from Thailand. She was deferred from ED to RD and accepted at RD. See her success story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hC7tgpHIr0).
Everyone has a different circumstance. So when you choose to go a certain school, you should calculate the odds you would be happy there. For example, 50% of kids at Princeton and Yale are happy and the other half either need to seek mental help or are depressed. It is âThe New Hunger Gamesâ. People at Penn seem to be a bit insecure (http://www.thedp.com/article/2018/03/isabella-simonetti-insecure-ivy-league-penn-upenn-philadelphia-harvard-princeton-wharton). And one of the students from my childâs high school who went to Columbia has died recently. No news so far. (we were truly shocked) This is last yearâs news â (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4184840/Frightening-wave-suicides-Columbia-University.html)
Just a FYI, 11% of Brown students are not happy and @preppedparent was one of those who had to transfer to Cornell to get a chemistry degree. Only less than 1% students transfer out of Brown every year. He also said âMy daughterâs friend tried to transfer from Yale to Princeton and he didnât get in.â (http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/21196824/#Comment_21196824). Since 1990, Princeton University has not admitted transfer students (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/03/princeton-university-will-resume-transfer-admissions-first-time-1990). Is his daughter that old? I would like to hear his story if he is willing to come back.
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I forgot to mention that, at the first YouTube link on #1711, you would hear âevery application goes to committeeâ. I think what she meant was âevery application goes to (sub)committeeâ like what Harvard was doing. (current Brown Dean of Admissions used to work for Harvard too). See http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/4/30/dont-touch-that-file-by-the/. In fact Fitzsimmons says "After the subcommittee process, all the readers meet in full committee for about three weeks, and go through every school and every person, ⊠asking again if we are sure this is a person we want to accept on April 1st ⊠As far as we can determine, there is no other college that spends as much time in committee as we do.â
I got waitlisted by Amherst. Can I still get into Brown?
@AceAttorney21 Yes!
@AceAttorney21 I got waitlisted by Colby and I got into Bowdoin, which is considered to be more selective (granted my Colby application was incomplete so they really shouldâve rejected me lol). Anyway, schools arenât the same and they are all looking for slightly different things and one school may like you more than another. You were waitlisted, not rejected, so that means you ARE qualified. Northeastern rejected me, but Bowdoin accepted me. One of my friends was rejected by Bowdoin but they got into MIT. College admissions is weird and inconsistent. Fingers crossed for you!!!
Literally, this is my last best hope and of course being rejected to 7 schools doesnât help in this process
Yo guys thanks for te support and congrats. I got into Northeastern and others so at least I have options. You guys are right. If you were gals I am sorry I did not use more inclusive language Iol. Seriously Bowdoin thatâs rad!
Penn people are not any more insecure than Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell or Columbia people are. All these schools have the same reasons to be insecure about, i.e. they are not seen as the elite of the elite (HYPSM) and were not the first choice for many of their students who wanted a HYPSM school.
Anyway people should expect the ivies to be high-octane, stressful environment. You put together a bunch of extremely ambitious, competitive and smart people, what do you think is gonna happen?
Lol why there is a Penn shill in a brown applicant discussion is beyond me