Brown Class of 2023 By The Numbers (RD approaching 5%)

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What we know:

ED round 4,230 applications (20.8% YOY increase) and 769 acceptances (4.3% YOY increase).

Total applications received 38,640 (9% YOY increase).

RD round 34,410 applications (7.7% YOY increase).

Last year Brown accepted a total of 2,566 applicants. Of that total 1,829 were RD applicants.

What we can approximate:

Brown will likely accept fewer total students this year having offered 32 “committed” ED spots. Additionally, the “Brown Promise” is anticipated to increase yield. With that in mind it is conservative to anticipate total acceptances reduced by 66 spots to 2,500 and consequently RD spots to 1,731.

That will result in a total acceptance rate of 6.5% and an RD rate of 5%.

These are just estimates but likely close to where things should land. Good luck to everyone given how challenging the odds are.

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Thanks for this terrifying information.

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@Nocreativity1 Likely RD acceptance rate (if the 1,731 is in the ballpark) will be even lower than in the calculation above because you have to account for the 55% of ED applicants who were deferred (http://www.browndailyherald.com/2018/12/13/university-accepts-record-low-18-percent-early-decision-applicants/) and are now in the RD pool, so add another 2,326 to the 34,410. So total RD pool right now = 36,736.

Projected RD acceptance rate using projected 1,731 acceptances = 4.7% 1,731 might be on the low end, although I agree that the yield is likely to increase this year.

Seems like the Brown Promise spoke to many and resulted in a significant increase in applications.

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^Thanks for the correction.

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@Mwfan1921 @Nocreativity1 Although I agree that the acceptance rate will be terrifying this year, it will be greater than what you calculated. The school will admit more than 1731 because not all the admitted ones will attend. I bet they will admit at least 500 more to make it up, which is the normal rate of rejection in the previous years.

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@Junerain Last year Brown accepted 1,829 RD students…that is accepted, not matriculated, so does take into account Brown’s expected yield. As I stated above I am not sure about @Nocreativity1’s estimate of Class of 2023 RD acceptances, but I do think yield is likely to increase, meaning RD acceptances will probably be lower than last year…how much we don’t really know.

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Where are all these new applicants coming from? Are more American high school believing they have a shot, or is most of the growth coming from international applicants (esp. China)?

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There was a mini baby boom in the year 2000, particularly in Asia where it coincided with the Year of the Metal Dragon, which is apparently extra-lucky. Combine that with the fact that Brown improved their financial aid profile this year and I would be shocked if they hadn’t had an increase in applicants.

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Any reason why does Brown enjoy the huge increase of applicants while other Ivies are basically hit plateau? the change of FA alone?

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http://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/01/22/goldstein-applicant-pool-profile/

This is the “official” explanation…