Brown will make nearly 900 offers of admission to next year’s incoming Class of 2026 through Early Decision. Fifty-seven percent of students admitted to the Class of 2026 have applied to receive financial aid.
Seventeen percent of accepted students represent the first generation in their family to attend college. Additionally, 51 percent are students of color, defined as those who self-identify as African American, Latinx, Native American, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander or Asian American.
The students accepted from the Early Decision applicant pool come from 47 nations, 43 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico. The countries most represented outside the United States are China, the United Kingdom, Canada, India, Brazil and Singapore.
The Board of Admission has voted to defer 25 percent … Deferred applicants will receive decisions from us along with all Regular Decision applicants on March 31. … We have also denied 60 percent of this year’s Early Decision applicants.
They send it to all the counselors whose kids applied. My counselor got an email a day before RD and she told me how low the %acceptance rate was in RD . Lucky, we received good news.
Good luck!! Deep breath. You guys got this. Hug your kid no matter what. It’s ok to cry :). You did all you could to get them here. They will succeed and thrive based on that!!
As parents, we gotta be ready either way. I prepared to give my son space for a few days to stew (he was deferred) but he didn’t need any of it. I told him he fully earned his right to apply with his stats and resume. Then I told him to move on. “Screw Brown. On to better things.” I had one ready had he gotten rejected on Ivy Day. Luckily, he had Berkeley in the bag by then.
You already know the percent getting accepted, so prepare for all outcomes. Give some space if needed. It is hard to see them hurting a little even if they have a few other acceptances already. They are resilient. Either way celebrate their many accomplishments. You have got this.
Total side note…ED applications have been down at all of the Ivy leagues so far, perhaps because Princeton started EA again this year and is taking up some of the applicants. The only 3 schools not reported yet are Harvard, Penn, Brown. Some of the early info out was that Brown got 10% more applications than last year ED…that would be amazing, especially since Duke, Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale, and MIT were all down…Stanford, Cornell, and Princeton are not sharing results. Makes those early #s reported on Brown hard to believe but, still, seem likely to be true I guess…
I saw some of that online, but from an actual brown source? I believe it to be true, but it really would be an amazing result for Brown, Anecdotally at my son’s school seems like everyone is applying to Brown. Still, would be unexpected…really doubt Harvard up with Princeton starting EA again. Would mean Brown may be the only top-10 school up.
. Lucky, we received good news.
I had one ready had he gotten rejected on Ivy Day. Luckily, he had Berkeley in the bag by then.
