They send this out a few days before decision day. Good luck to all the ED kids!! May your Xmas gift be full of goodies from the Brown Bookstore on Thayer!
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We just received the email about the checklist on the portal no longer being open after the 9th I think.
Any international students here who got an IDOC request to submit financial aid documents to Brown?
If so when?
No. Did not receive anything like that yet. Not sure if that means a ding!
Are you international?
From a little research I did online, the common answer Iām finding is that most intāl students who got into Brown and applied for financial aid usually got requested for financial aid documents through IDOCā¦
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Yes. Iām an international student. Perhaps I should see this as a ding 
I was wondering if there are others here whose school did the Pass/Fail route for the second semester of 2019-2020 school year? Wonder how that will impact admissions.
If your school did Pass/Fail, just make sure your counselor shares that. My kidsā school had that option and that was captured in the school report the counselor sent to the universities. Colleges wonāt punish you. They have the ability to see how you did prior to 19/20 and then now, so donāt worry.
Thank you! Although it wasnāt an option provided by the school district. That was the only choice and a decision they made in the last two weeks of the semester. It was very disappointing for the kids that had put in the work.
I havenāt! Not sure whether thatās a good or bad thing though. I know Brown doesnāt always require IDOC documents. If the financial aid department see your CSS profile as informative enough then they usually donāt request, and the financial department is separate to admissions so it may not be indicative of whether or not you got accepted
Have you applied finaid? If not, then the IDOC thing does not apply to you.
yes I have.
Hopefully they put in the work in preparation for success in college, rather than just to get into collegeā¦ in which case none of it was wasted wherever they go (and in particular at Brown, where the seats on either side of them will be occupied by people used to putting in an incredible amount of work whatever the incentives are or arenāt). But yeah, sort of like the one time my wife took an off-concentration Brown elective P/F, ended up aceing it, and then it was āShould have taken it for a grade.ā At least she had a choice.
Oh for sure! 
All that wisdom sinks in at 50 but given the abrupt end to the school year during covid, pushing through online school (not easy for social ones), working to excel when you see others take it easy, to be told itāll be P/F, I have to give that to her. I am sure she would done exactly the same even knowing it was P/F from the get go.
Yup, that is the sort of student Brown is looking for: A lot of internal motivation/drive. As a Brown prof once put it, āPoint them in the right direction and get the hell out of the way.ā [An oversimplification, perhaps.] Hopefully the hard work of these HS applicants was rewarded one way or the other. For example, by teacher recommendations which were that much better.
@bbstar123 did you get the IDOC request and are you an intāl student?
Thank you. I hope so too.
Iām international. I applied for aid. I did not receive any IDOC requests. Hope it does not mean a ding. I was really hoping to make it to Brown ED. Had strong Essays, strong SAT, strong grades, strong EC, great reccos (hopefully!), good relevant internships, and a strong SOP.
It seems too early to jump to a negative conclusion. You will know soon enough and either way it will work out. So have a great day in the meantime.
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