<p>Going on what tetrisfan said, yah, here’s the article about the increase at Brown: </p>
<p>[The</a> Brown Daily Herald - Early applicant pool grows for Class of 2014](<a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/early-applicant-pool-grows-for-class-of-2014-1.2112435]The”>http://www.browndailyherald.com/early-applicant-pool-grows-for-class-of-2014-1.2112435)</p>
<p>I have no idea what happened at Brown. Maybe it’s the Emma Watson effect? Or it’s because last year, so few got in RD? Brown’s experienced RIDICULOUS application growth over the past few years without instituting any firm changes in its recruitment policies, from what I can tell. It sounds like Duke changed its message, Chicago adopted the common app and recruited much harder, etc. I have no idea what Brown’s doing, but it’s leading to what will be some crazy admissions numbers in Providence when all is said and done (maybe a 10% overall accept rate?).</p>