<p>Nope. Didn’t happen post-OC, won’t happen now. Brown is already a known quantity amongst 98% of the qualified community, so while we may get a slight bump from the UK or something, overall, the market is mostly tapped out of qualified applicants when it comes to pure name awareness.</p>
<p>I don’t know, I think it’s going to help a bit. </p>
<p>I mean, it’s not like we’re getting the Olsen twins, who are famous for…acting (and not very well) at a young age. She’s a star of an incredibly popular film franchise that is a series of adaptations of the world’s most popular literary franchise in the past fifteen years.</p>
<p>I mean, Georgetown blew up after Patrick Ewing created a basketball dynasty. </p>
<p>You never know what’s going to make more people apply or not apply. </p>
<p>I’d say applications rise very slightly over last year’s number, which will still be significant because there are fewer total applicants (i.e. number of graduating seniors) overall.</p>
<p>I think applications will rise of last year, but not due to Emma Watson, not by a long shot. I actually think the comparison to Patrick Ewing is insane. Ewing invigorated the culture around something about the school, bringing pride for his actions as an athlete and representative of Georgetown. Emma Watson’s accomplishments are not something which can serve as a community rallying point, and don’t come during her time at Brown or as a function of her participation in the Brown community.</p>
<p>We’ve had film stars, famous politicians, royalty, etc here in the past, albeit perhaps not of Watson’s visibility. I still don’t think it’ll have any meaningful effect on applications. I just hope people aren’t ridiculous and leave her be on campus.</p>
<p>I’m sure that when John F Kennedy Jr went to Brown there was a tremendous excitement around. I also hope that folks on campus let her be a normal (whatever that means) student.</p>
<p>I was on campus for JFK Jr.'s first year. I don’t recall any huge hubbub. I do, however, think Emma Watson is a bigger celebrity to this generation than he was to mine. </p>
<p>Natalie Portman went to Harvard, Brooke Shields to Princeton and Jodie Foster to Yale – and I don’t think their applications shot through the roof as a result.</p>
<p>I see all of your views (it actually makes me think about mine again), but I do have to add one thing:</p>
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You have to know that she is an international sensation. A huge amount (like millions) of people love her. Few people knew JFK Jr., I mean JFK Jr. wasn’t really a celebrity, he wasn’t admired like Emma Watson.</p>
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Again, models are not exactly the most admired people in the world. Compared to Emma Watson who stars in the most popular book series AND movie internationally and nationally, Brook Shields would seem somewhat inferior in admiration by the public (not exactly a lot but when it comes internationally, it will). Then again I might be wrong because I didn’t live during that life time. My thoughts is that Emma Watson has way more publicity than Brook Shields, mainly because the Harry Potter series is just different than modeling, it has been the top in book and movie, modeling hasn’t exactly been as popular as Harry Potter series. Also college admissions have changed dramatically. In the past the admit rate was quite high, few people applied to top schools when compared to now. And also a lot of people now apply to top schools even if they know they most likely might not get in (a common thing with Ivies).
Also Natalie Portman’s popularity didn’t exactly boom until when she was going to college. When Star Wars came out and became a sensation, it was pretty much the time she was about to start college. Emma Watson on the other hand has been a popular actress internationally for 8 years. So Emma has been more widely known than Natalie Portman at the time of starting college. Jodie Foster, I really can’t comment, the time difference makes it a little too difficult and also even though she was popular, TV and films weren’t exactly like today and publicity is different so me trying to make a argument would be a very bad one.</p>
<p>I don’t know really either, it’s just a theory…</p>
<p>Next year will be fun… maybe Emma will be spotted eating in the ratty or the v dub. I know a few celebs at Brown… it is easy to not feel anything towards them if you DON’T know they are famous or celebrity status, but when you find out it kind of changes things a bit (atleast for me I always end up feeling inferior kind of, or like I am only friends because they are famous, but I think this feeling is changing)… but it will be hard for Emma because everyone will immediately know that she is Emma Watson it won’t be like oh whats your name, Susie… and a few weeks later you find out Susie is Obama’s daughter.</p>
<p>I think more people will end up knowing about Brown. Atleast most of the people that ask me where I am going to school and I say Brown kind of shrug it off, now may have a greater chance of knowing what Brown is…</p>
<p>“I think more people will end up knowing about Brown. Atleast most of the people that ask me where I am going to school and I say Brown kind of shrug it off, now may have a greater chance of knowing what Brown is…” = publicity</p>
<p>Which is nice because many people honestly don’t know Brown University at all or that it is in the Ivy League.</p>
<p>Students who go to Brown, other ivies, or any schools don’t need Emma Watson, celebrities, or their barbers to justify their education. They are who they are. :)</p>
<p>emma is a celebrity, but there will be students who are wealthier than her, and students who have famous parents. and by now i’m sure she can differentiate between real friends and people trying to rub against a celebrity. so she’ll be fine.</p>
<p>as for skyrocketing applications, brown already has a 10% acceptance rate. and it’s probably not gonna get any lower.</p>
People who are going to randomly apply are. There are always people applying to top school just because they want to see if they get in even though they know they won’t like Duke and basketball people. Of course your statement which people who are accepted and go obvious don’t need to because they care more about education. But a lot of people just want to say that they apply for Ivy League. (like they would be ask “where did you apply?” “Stanford.” “Oh you must be smart”). It happens and people apply even though their chances are slimmer than other people.</p>
<p>As for acceptance rate, it can go down if many more random people who apply just for the heck of it knowing that they probably won’t get in.</p>
<p>But your probably smart. There are some that isn’t so, some people just randomly apply. Like I have seen people who apply to Harvard just because they want to even though they aren’t even accepted to non-Ivies.</p>
<p>I just did a little google searching and apparently Natalie Portman began Harvard as a freshmen just a month or two after Star Wars Episode 1 came out (it came out during the early summer). Which means she was basically at the height of her popularity while at Harvard, and Episode 2 and 3 were coming out while she was attending.
I think that one at least is bigger than the Emma Watson factor.</p>
<p>And then apparently Zach Braff went down to Cambridge to party with her at the university, to get to know her before they began filming Garden State, so that too must have been pretty damn ridiculous.</p>
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. Maybe, but that doesn’t change the fact that when Emma visited Yale the whole dining hall went quiet, and all those “top Yale students” started snapping cell phone pictures the second she walked in…</p>
JK.</p>