Brown Class of 2022 Applicants Discussion

@mhop72 Maybe they give u the financial aid award many days after u get accepted, so they may ask for it after u find out the acceptance?

@pz1818 still hopeful for Tufts. If not (knocking on wood) then I guess Northeastern.

You guys will be fine! I am part of Class of 2018! Hopefully you guys will all choose us over Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, Duke, Berkeley, and UT Austin like I did!!

@Jessey010 i think you got me confused with @MaybeHarvard2022

Does the "Upload Materialsā€™ box (for uploading supplementary materials) still appear for everyone?

Guys letā€™s answer if we still have the upload Materials box and if Brown requested our IDOCs to maybe determine our acceptance?

Hereā€™s my status:

Upload box - YES (bad sign?)
IDOCs request - NO :frowning:

Yes it does @cliffhanger2018 (i also received a likely)

Thank you, @MaybeHarvard2022!

@cliffhanger2018 @MaybeHarvard2022 did brown request IDOC from you guys??? reddit is speculating that it correlates with acceptance

People who havenā€™t applied for FA canā€™t speculate anything right? xD

Iā€™m really worried that Reddit may be correctā€¦Brown didnā€™t request IDOC from meā€¦guess Iā€™m rejected

@lananasneparlepas Financial aid does NOT correlate with acceptance. Brown is a need-blind school. Whether you have your financial aid documents or not, that does not impact your decision.

@myskoolcool It doesnā€™t make sense that Brown is updating/uploading certain docs from IDOC and w2s VeRY RECENTLY according to users on this thread, Reddit, and Brown 2021 Discussion Thread. And the people who didnā€™t get them requested on the 2021 thread got rejected or waitlistedā€¦Like Brown would only request IDOC and further financial information for people who arenā€™t flat out rejected because they probably canā€™t make financial packages until they determine who is accepted (this is a policy at Dartmouth, I believe)

@lananasneparlepas Brown has been on my IDOC list since January. So i donā€™t think it has to do anything with admissions.

in my IDOC portal under ā€œInstitutions Requesting Documents,ā€ Brown is one.

@MaybeHarvard2022 @Harvard2022maybe looks like this is a good sign then!

At the same time, I am still of the opinion this does not mean anything and everyone is over-speculating. Weā€™ll find out in 33 hrs.

Isnā€™t it true that other institutions can see IDOC once another college requests it? My Brown portal shows all of the IDOC documents (2016 federal income tax returns, W-2, etc), and I was one of the people who had further financial aid info requested, but I think the only schools requesting documents for me on IDOC are UPenn and UChicago. Iā€™m not 100% clear on how the financial stuff works, but they were obviously considering my financial profile even without IDOC, so Iā€™m not sure that alone should mean anything. Moreover, I was waitlisted from Chicago (requested) and accepted to Hopkins (not requested), so I think that should be evidence enough that this doesnā€™t mean anything.

I thought it was established that anything said on Reddit should be taken with a grain of salt. lol

I have no IDOC docs on my portal :frowning:

Hopkins (accepted) and Duke (still waiting lmao) and Rice (accepted) requested for my items through ā€“ my EFC is lower than the cost of attendance at those places, but my EFC is a bit close to cost of attendance of Brown, maybe thatā€™s a factor? Like they saw my CSS and were like ā€œnah famā€ā€¦idk in the end. Reddit is making me super anxious.