<p>Who is applying ED this fall & what are your stats?</p>
<p>I'm not...darn finances!</p>
<p>my stats would probably get me laughed at so I won't list them. Let's say my only, and a very small and insignificant one at that is my urm status. Good luck next fall alexmcavoy</p>
<p>I want to apply ED this fall, but a lot of things might happen between now and November. I'll probably have more of a picture of what I want to do after my college visits during Spring Break.</p>
<p>I want to apply to brown.. My stats are really low for Brown's standards and that's why I'm really iffy. If i do apply, I'm not sure if applyign ED would be the best choice for me, seeings as ED applicants are generally very strong and well, i'm not! lol. Maybe RD would be the better choice. Oh, who knows.</p>
<p>My stats are low for Brown also. I am working really hard this year to try to bring them up, but who knows. I don't have much time taking 18 credits and two college lab sciences this semester.</p>
<p>Wait, you can possible be taking 18 classes? Sorry I don't know what you mean by credits, I just thought a year long course was a credit. By the way, I'm interested in Brown, too, but it seems like it will be so hard to get int because it has become such a popular school</p>
<p>Oh yeah, sorry I should have explained. They are at college. Three of my classes are 4 credits each, and the other two are each three credits. 18 classes would be impossible lol.</p>
<p>i might apply ED</p>
<p>1360 (taking New) SAT 2 writing: 730 .. Average GPA .. Great EC's ... Hopefully Recruited Athlete</p>
<p>ra2000a, what is your sport?</p>
<p>I would apply ED to Brown (Its my first choice) but I need to compare financial aid packages so the whole binding admission doesn't work for me. My gpa is a 3.99uw and I'm ranked 6/375. My SAT is a 1320(bad I know) and I haven't taken my SAT 2's yet. ...I'm praying on getting recruited for music (Opera/Vocal) and for URM status (african american). The only problem is I want to major in Political Science and International Relations.</p>
<p>even if I was a "shoo in" (i know they don't exist being hypothetical) my parents are struggling to pay 12k a year for my older sister, so 40k and binding isn't such a sweet deal.</p>
<p>Yeah, but I got some sweet financial aid. You could, too.</p>
<p>yeah, if you're family doesn't have that much money they will hook it up yo ;)</p>
<p>I'm hoping to apply in the fall......my biggest problem is my parents, who refuse to even think about the possibility of me not living at home. I desperately want to go to Brown, but I'm gonna have a hell of a time just convincing my parents to let me apply. </p>
<p>They seem to think that I will forever abandon them once I'm out on my own.....any advice about how to get rid of their irrational fear?</p>
<p>Tell them seriously that you want to go to Brown (don't make it sound like a whim). Tell them that you will have to move outside your nuclear family eventually, and that college is the best time to do it. Make it clear that you will of course come back on vacations and that applying to Brown is important to you.</p>
<p>Sorry, this wasn't very good advice. :(</p>
<p>Or ask them to move to Providence with you! (I actually know people whose daughter got into harvard and then her father took a job there.)</p>
<p>Or pester them with questions about minimum SAT score and GPA requirements and what they're looking for in a student. Just kidding ;).</p>
<p>Thank You all,</p>
<p>I've tried to ge through to them, and I'll keep trying still. I jsut feel like every time I broach the subject, a wall goes up....anyway, they'll have to come to the realization that eventually I will leave home and be on my own, and college IS the best time to do it.</p>
<p>On a more positive note, what is everyone's favorite thing about Brown? How many of you are applying ED?</p>
<p>I'm a current junior and I would love to go to Brown. I would also love to apply ED but like a lot of other people here, I'm not sure that it is in the cards for me. I know that applying ED gives you an edge in admissions, but you lose a huge edge in trying to get the best aid package. We'll see.</p>
<p>Like most other juniors a lot of my stats are still unknown at this point. I have a little over a 4.0 unweighted GPA (for now!). At my school 4.0 is an A, and the rather elusvie A+ is a 4.33. My weighted GPA is so ridicuoulsy high that I think it is meaningless for admission purposes (my school gives a ton of weight to honors classes and even more to AP's). I haven't taken my Sats yet. I've taken 2/3 SAT II's (760 and 800). </p>
<p>My parents want me to keep as many options open as posssible, mainly for financial reasons, but also to give me more of a chance to know what I really want. They aren't crazy about the ED route, but I'm not sure that they really understand just how tough a game college admissions has become.</p>