Brown Likely Letters

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<p>bravo, Eisensteinprime</p>

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<p>Awesome job. :)</p>

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<p>Congrats-- for those of you out there panicking, we only send about 100, it's pretty much a small pilot program, and I'm pretty sure it exclusively goes to special cases where Brown feels we need the nudge or that the student needs more information earlier.</p>

<p>For instance, I'm positive that part of Eisenstein's receiving that letter early is that he/she was home schooled. Not to say every home schooled kid gets a likely, but I bet that situation (lack of guidance counselor, perhaps a unique set of skills or unique set of schools applied to, encouragement to enter a drastically different social environment for the next four years of schooling, etc) has a lot to do with it.</p>

<p>Btw, Eisenstein, as someone very interested in education, if you have anything in the past written down about your homeschool experience and why your family chose that route and how it worked in practice, I would absolutely LOVE to read about it. Don't write anything extra for me but please send it along.</p>

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<p><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v149/eva_c/IMGP1497.gif%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v149/eva_c/IMGP1497.gif&lt;/a>
The above is a photo that was posted here on CC back in 2007 by a young lady who received a likely letter that year. Brown does, indeed, send them, and this is proof.</p>

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<p>Modestmelody, could you possibly go into the "email from brown this morning thread" and calm everyone down about what time they were told to check the brown site? i know we're all reading too much into this (or are we?) and it might be really helpful for everyone to know whether or not they have any reason to worry.</p>

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<p>Thanks, franglish. Wow, the good old days of 2007, when there were <em>only</em> ~19,000 applicants...</p>

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<p>You're welcome! Yeah-- the good old days--2007. My D was admitted then!</p>

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<p>Lucky! I'm so jealous! I'm still waiting... <em>sigh</em></p>

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<p>me toooo :)</p>

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<p>i'm still waiting that is lol</p>

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<p>wooooooooo Marylanders at Brown! <strong>cheers</strong></p>

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<p>Congrats Eisenstein. That is encouraging to hear. </p>

<p>I had heard that the Ivies and many private colleges are open to homeschooled students because they know they make excellent students.</p>

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<p>how could only 2-3 RDs get likely-letters?</p>

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<p>^because not everyone who's gotten a likely has been on CC or has chosen to become a member. There are people who visit this site without ever contributing to it. What you see on these forums is only a small sampling of the entire applicant pool.</p>

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<p>ab2013,</p>

<p>thanks.</p>

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<p>Just got mine today! It's not too late!</p>

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<p>I applied ED and was deferred, and I didn't get a likely letter (not that i thought i would), but I just want to say congrats to everyone who did! It's just an incredible school. :)</p>

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<p>Any likely letters for PLME RD applicants?</p>

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<p>LogansSN@, what's your information? Not necessarily stats, but why do you think Brown sent you a likely letter?</p>

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<p>I'm not really sure what made me get one.
I'm a white male.
4.71 GPA (4.0 unweighted)
2220 SAT (just took it once junior year)
EC's alright
Good essays (I think)
Really good recs</p>

<p>My guess would be that it helps that I'm from the South (Baton Rouge, LA.)</p>

<p>Another guy at my school got one too with similar stats.</p>