I am a transfer student from a local community college. I have received mostly all A’s and A-s, a couple of B’s, completed multiple research papers as part of an Honors Programs and received academic compensation. I made the Dean’s List every semester. I also have a good list of achievements from high school (Rhode Island Honor Society, National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, President’s Award, Writing Awards, etc.). I have a lot of community service hours, have tutored, led Save the Bay, published an online novel that received 5 million reads, and had a 3.94 out of 4.0 GPA in high school with 10+ AP classes. I have published articles in the newspaper and had an internship at a nursing home. I went to CC for money purposes. Despite all of that, my SAT score is only 1200. I recently submitted my application and wasn’t sure if I should have submitted the SAT score (I did). I also got a letter of recommendation from my old professor, who now works at Brown, and other really good recommendation letters. Do I still have a good chance? I’ve been worrying over the submission of the SAT score and the couple of B’s I got. I’m also trilingual.
I think the reason you did not get any answers the first time you asked is because Brown is so extremely selective that just about everyone has extremely small odds.
Obviously your SAT scores is the weakest part of your application, and while Brown does require old high school test scores even for transfer students, it is anyone’s guess as to how much they will hurt you. Clearly Brown is going to consider them at least to some extent or they wouldn’t require them, but what to make of four year old scores?
Your odds of getting in are zero if you don’t apply, however, so you might as well give it your best shot. Just make sure you give equal time and care to several match school apps too.
If you look at Brown’s common data set you will see that they accepted 164 transfer students out of 2.130 transfer applicants so the acceptance rate is in the single digits. You have to consider Brown to be a reach school. IMO it is impossible to chance when it is so competitive – there will very likely be many more well qualified applicants than there are spots available.
As I tell everyone for both freshman and transfer admissions be sure you take the time to craft an application list that includes not only reach but also match and safety schools that appear affordable and that you would be excited to attend. There are tons of amazing colleges and universities out there!