I see that brown’s ED acceptance rate is much much higher than it’s RD acceptance rate. I also realize that they encourage recruited athletes and other hooks to apply during ED. Is there any advantage to apply to brown ED as an unhooked, white applicant from the pacific NW?
I am applying ED as a mostly unhooked white applicant from CA. I’ve seen the math before when legacies and recruited athletes are taken out of the equation, and I believe the resulting acceptance rate is about 16% down from 22% – which is still substantially higher than the RD acceptance rate of 7%.
@ap012199 It’s that high after legacy and recruited athletes? That’s quite nice to hear!!
Bump
This has been discussed over and over and over again on this forum. Do a search and you’ll find lots of previous threads on this.
I just learned that Brown defers most ED applicants, instead of making up or down decisions. Last year, about 22% of ED applicants were accepted, and only about 14.7% were rejected outright, leaving everybody else to wait until the regular decision outcome. That’s not the approach at all Ivy League schools and is really unfortunate. Seems like they could take the time now to make more final decisions, given that those ED applicants chose Brown. I’m disappointed to learn this.
It certainly is for HYP
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/01/24/early-programs-not-created-equal/
Yes I have learned that it varies significantly across schools. Cornell engineering makes mostly up/down decisions for ED applicants. It really seems inefficient to defer so many ED applicants and truly is not nice treatment of applicants who showed their devotion by choosing Brown for their ED school. Sigh. Could be a MUCH longer wait than we had anticipated just a couple of days ago.
This might be changing this year.
What makes you think it might be changing?
@fireandrain Which part might be changing?
The large percent of deferrals might change. Remember, there is a new director of admissions. He will implement changes – if not this year, in future years. As an alum, I have sources (can’t be more specific, sorry).
Well, since the new Dean of Admissions is coming from Princeton, there may actually be more deferrals this year than last, and less rejections. According to post #6, that seems like a possibility.
@fireandrain This wouldn’t increase the ED acceptance rate though, correct? Either way, would these changes be helpful for hurtful for the stronger applicants, on the edge of an acceptance or nonacceptance?
As I understand it, Brown might not defer as many students, deciding to deny instead. There would be no impact on the ED admission rate at all. These changes – if they happen, and I don’t know when they would happen – should have no effect on “stronger applicants on the edge of an acceptance or nonacceptance.”
@fireandrain I see! Thank you!
@fireandrain do you have any idea as to how many more applicants (percentage wise) Brown is trying to reject rather than defer for ED?
No. And I need to stress that I do not know for a fact that this change is happening, I do not know when it is happening if it happens, and I do not know the process for deciding whether it does happen.