Brown isn’t TO. Personally this is all BS. Brown gets through thousands of apps for ED in roughly 6+ weeks. They’ve had transfer apps since March 1 so approximately 10 weeks. They have zero excuse to not be finished by now.
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Only test optional for community college students
Meh, just don’t blame the admissions workers for the delay. I found out a comparable institution who I won’t be naming had literally 1 person dealing with all of their transfer applicants files.
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Also unacceptable! Those apps better have all been “no fee” then.
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yes they are
TO for CC not for 4 year applicants.
Never said it was acceptable, but it’s not really the fault of the individuals working in the admissions office. It’s an institutional problem and a problem of where some of these colleges are putting their endowment money.
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no. read the requirements for this year.
Testing Requirements for Transfer Applicants
Standardized Tests
Applicants can satisfy our testing requirement with one of the following. This applies to both domestic and international applicants:
- The redesigned SAT (The essay section of the SAT is optional).
- The ACT (The writing section of the ACT is optional).
Standardized testing is optional for all applicants with U.S. military service.
American citizens or U.S. permanent residents applying from domestic community colleges, junior colleges or two-year colleges are permitted to apply without submitting SAT or ACT scores. However, these applicants fare better in our admission process if they do submit the results of those tests. For the 2021-22 admission cycle, transfer applicants who do not fall into the above categories who have not previously been able to take a standardized test may also apply.
Applicants can satisfy our testing requirement with either (1) the redesigned SAT (the essay section of the SAT is optional) or (2) the ACT (the writing section of the ACT is optional). These requirements apply to all applicants, domestic and international, with the exception of domestic applicants applying from domestic community colleges.
I read that to say it’s pretty much required.
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“For the 2021-22 admission cycle, transfer applicants who do not fall into the above categories who have not previously been able to take a standardized test may also apply.”
Sure, feel free to apply. The number of applicants that might fulfill that exemption is small. If you went to college starting any time before fall 2020 it doesn’t really apply.
I’d say proceed TO at your own risk 
. TO means test optional not test blind.
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I’m just saying. They had 2800 applicants this year compared to roughly 2000 applicants in prior years. Probably due to the TO policy.
Can’t really fault them for delaying a few days, especially since they’re reviewing Class of 2025 waitlists at the same time.
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I really hope we can get a decision by friday 
not sure what I’ll do with myself during another weekend of waiting 
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And TO does, statistically, disadvantage an applicant the majority of the time. Also ur right the majority of transfer applicants have taken a standardized test in order to apply to their current university—Duke also states that as their reason for not being TO for transfers. Covid only affected testing for HS class of 2025.
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Yea I’m sure a ton of otherwise unqualified applicants applied this transfer cycle because TO policy akin to the massive increase in freshman applications at all the elite schools this year.
And I don’t believe we should absolve Brown from fault; they review the freshman waitlist and transfer applicants simultaneously every year.
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they probably also have to manage yield from people taking gap years and coming back from them, I’m not sure if the admissions office takes care of reviewing gap reinstatements but they have to wait until they find out how many spots are open nonetheless
found this from another thread: “1,769 First-Years in the Class of 2024, which means that Brown is currently over-enrolled by 104 students (projected enrollment is 1,665 First-Years.)” will this impact how many soph transfers they admit?
Yes. They barely accepted any transfers last year, and it looks like it will be more of the same.
Two observations: 1. the school purposefully over enrolled the 2024 class.
They took 194 kids off the waitlist to reach that 1769 (according to the cds 1751 actually enrolled - no data on how many gapped if any) and 2. They may have taken fewer transfers because they were de-densifying the housing and classes etc…so they probably really didn’t want/couldn’t easily absorb more students.
Not saying that means they’ll take more transfers this year but what happened with the freshman class wasn’t an accident. They also could have accepted less students for the 2025 but they didn’t. Hopefully they’ll return to their 100+ transfer numbers this year.
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this is random but it looks like the financial aid section got moved down in the portal, it used to be above the video portfolio and now it’s right above the personal info section
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