<p>I believe no matter what, some of the accepts to other top schools but rejects from Brown can be explained away. Brown seems to take a different approach to admissions that doesn’t put quite as much emphasis on the numerical data. In addition, at my high school, I personally know a fair number of students who were rejected at a school or schools with lower accept rates, but accepted to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. 1 of 37 is a pretty big sample, but there’s also the 1 person who was accepted, and it sounds like some qualified candidates may have been scared away (and the number says nothing of the calibur of the applicants; some may just not have been qualified at all). So…even if the school is blacklisted, someone has gotten in, so your case is not hopeless.</p>
<p>If the cost of applying, in money and time, is too much for something you perceive as a small chance, by all means follow your intuition. But if you just don’t want to receive a rejection, you’ll never know unless you try; if you could see yourself at Brown, see what happens.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>