<p>So how does Brown compare to other ivies. I know it is the only one to have an open curriculum. </p>
<p>I have decent SAT’s (2200) but only a 650 in math and I really want to go there. Most ivy schools only look at numbers because there are so many applicants but does Brown treat applicants the same way?</p>
<p>Brown is highly selective. It shares much of its successful applicant overlap with Penn, Columbia and Dartmouth; it is more competitive than Cornell, and slightly less so than HYP. Occasionally students from that level, however, will be lured to Brown because of it's open curriculum. </p>
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<p>This is incorrect for the most part. What most Ivies look for is a certain combination: excellent SAT scores and HS grades. At that point, they're still left with thousands more students than they can accept. Following this, they search through those looking for the most interesting and who will promise to offer the most to the campus community.</p>
<p>Improve your math scores, get yourself within the group that COULD be accepted, and then try to look really interesting.</p>
<p>most students that have the choice, go to brown over columbia, dartmouth, penn, and cornell</p>
<p>most students that have the choice, choose harvard, yale and princeton over brown.</p>
<p>that being said, everyone is different. people have chosen columbia over brown and brown over harvard. they're all great schools.</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Hey newjerseykid! </p>
<p>Welcome to the world of college admissions (I'm not being sarcastic ... but serious). You're about to embark on a new journey on learning even more about yourself. Last year around this time I was just like you ... scouring the web and wondering, "Am I good enough?" Look up my profile. My first post was a "Chance me" on the UMich section on CC. Seriously. </p>
<p>Truth is, with the 2200, you are amazing. There's a chart on College Board that lists the percentiles of each score. Your 2200 places you in the 99th percentile ... you're in the Top 1% of this country. Congrats! But there's more to life than your test score. </p>
<p>I can't tell you exactly what you "need" to have to get in, because no one really knows what Brown and other Ivies look for. Just do what you do best and do what you like in school, and have that passion show in your app. Write really good essays. Be yourself. (I know that's a vague term, but there's no guide book in being yourself ... you have to find your personal voice!) Then after clicking the "Submit" button, hope for the best ... maybe the admissions committee will find you a good fit for their school, and if they don't, other schools may want you. </p>
<p>I have a 2260 SAT. I applied EA to Chicago. I was deferred. So what? I already have one or two options on hand, and I feel lucky enough to have schools that want me. After all, anything's better than nothing.</p>
<p>Good luck!
-ab2013</p>
<p>"most students that have the choice, go to brown over columbia, dartmouth, penn, and cornell"
just wait until muerte reads this...</p>
<p>So right, Millhouse. Stating that any ivy other than HYP is somehow "better" or otherwise "preferable" than Penn is like putting a salt lick in the woods... muerte will appear soon.</p>
<p>dcircle was just stating statistics. It wasn't a personal attack on Penn or any other school. dcircle also said "they're all great schools." BTW, my son didn't follow the norm. He chose Brown over Yale. But Yale is still a great school.</p>
<p>I got into Brown with a 670 on the SATI math section and I had no hook, so don't despair about that..</p>
<p>i had 550V on my SAT. i still like to think that i can communicate intelligently :)</p>
<p>A close friend of mind chose Brown over Harvard and Dartmouth. As far as admissions are concerned, there is no trend either. In my school, the students accepted to Yale and Princeton were all rejected from Brown. The only student that got into Brown, also got into Harvard and Dartmouth and ended up going to Brown over Harvard.</p>
<p>dcircle is right about the overall trends. Brown beats Penn, Columbia, Cornell and Dartmouth in cross admits for the most part.</p>
<p>Oh, please. Give me a little credit. It's completely true that 5 years ago, the revealed preference study reported that Brown was the most preferred of the lower Ivies. Whether this is true now remains to be seen, but it certainly is just as selective as Columbia/Penn/Dartmouth, and in a number of ways more desirable (no requirements!). I'm not going to say anymore, because it isn't strictly relevant to the thread and no one has insulted any specific schools wrongly yet.</p>
<p>muerte sounds reasonable on the post above.</p>
<p>Maybe she was rejected by Brown...</p>
<p>Just joshin', muerte!</p>
<p>For whatever is worth, Brown seems to be one of the hottest ivies this year..</p>
<p>Brown 21 % increase in applications from last years record.
Yale 13.5 %
Dartmouth 7.5%
Harvard 5.6%
Princeton 2.3 %</p>
<p>Brown's admission rate is going to be around 10% or less this year.</p>
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<p>Didn't apply, although two of my best friends at Penn were accepted out of HS. They loved it, but came to Penn for specific reasons (architecture and anthropology, respectively).</p>
<p>And yes, it does appear as though Brown is red hot at the moment.</p>