<p>Does Brown limit the number of applicants who can be admitted from a school or geographic area in a given year?</p>
<p>No. We view our applicants as individuals, regardless of the number of candidates from a single school or area. We often hear rumors about “patterns” of admission for an individual school. Please trust us when we say that we never place a school limit on the number of students we might admit (nor do we guarantee that we will admit a minimum number of applicants!).</p>
<p>I had heard that there was sort of a quotient in that x % of applicants from a certain geographic region were figured in the who gets in equation (ie one of the best ways to get in would be to be from a relatively small number state, and then have an extra forty people you know with much worse grades and scores apply, and then you had a better chance of getting in! LOL.) I don’t think that is really true having seen some years 0 kids from local top prep school get in and the next year 4/100. (similar scores, grades). There are many more variables than geography, and the only student applying from North Dakota won’t get in if they are not qualified. There are some “competition variables” from extra heavy admit areas: CA, NJ, MA for example. In other words, I think it is a bit harder to get in from those areas from what we hear. But a strict limit, No.</p>
<p>15 people got into Brown from Florida during the ED round. I was worried about geographic residence as well, but including myself, around 5 of us came from my town or the town nearby.</p>
<p>I don’t think it is true. 5 girls from my county have already gotten into Brown ED (3 from my school,) and the year before 2 just from my school. And we’re all public school kids.</p>