<p>Anyone know how many people apply PLME ED? I know about only 20 people get accepted. </p>
<p>Also, PLME doesn’t look at nationality right? Doesn’t matter if your international? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>20? </p>
<p>Well since in the whole year they accept around 50-60 out of around 1600 applicants, don't they take about 40ish?</p>
<p>They take 20 from ED </p>
<p>and like 60 from RD.</p>
<p>Noone has answered my question yet =(</p>
<p>ya I wanta know this too!!!! Does it hurt your chances if you don't check the box-that binds you to Brown?</p>
<p>I dont really know the answers to your specific questions. I do know that over 1650 applied (total) last year, and about 100 were accepted. About 55 matriculated. The acceptance rate was somewhere around 5% or so. Some ppl will tell you that not checking the box to be bound to brown does hurt you, b/c they want to see you're committed to the school as well as the program, but I have no idea if that's true. Ppl do get in without checking the box.</p>
<p>if 55 matriculated, does that mean that the top 45 people that applied for PLME and got deferred earlier, got into PLME after?</p>
<p>Hmm not sure i completely understand your question, but the numbers i gave earlier were for the TOTAL admissions, not just the early. I haven't heard any numbers regarding just early admission. The 55 that matriculated presumably include everyone accepted early and then some people who were accepted regular. The remaining 45 who were accepted chose to go elsewhere.... sorry if I was confusing before.</p>
<p>yes yes, so then there are 45 EXTRA plme spots, do they get filled up with the plme deferred people? Like taking people off the waitlist</p>
<p>Ah, i get your question. No, the TARGET class size is around 55, anyway - they expect a certain amount of kids arent going to matriculate and so they take more kids than they have room for. I've never heard of a PLME waitlist but I guess one might exist... I doubt they'd ever really need to go to it, though.</p>
<p>Just use common sense about that little box-- you're applying to a specific program, yes, but you're also applying to an undergraduate college, and an institution that is first and foremost an undergraduate college. The very notion that they'll accept you to the school and not the program suggests that your application is primarly to the college, and secondary to this program within the college. Do you want to accept someone who wants to be there for the next four years, or someone who is using this as a stepping stone strictly? It's not that people don't get in, it's just I know that if I were an adcom, the kid who doesnt check the box just wants to be a doctor at any cost, and the kid who does wants to come to Brown for all that it offers, and happens to also be interested in being a doctor and figure it's worth applying to med school so they can take advantage of Brown while they're here, have a little security for their future, and beacuse they have enough vision to know where they are going.</p>
<p>Is this valid? I don't know, I'm only human. BUt then again, so are the admissions counselors.</p>
<p>By checking the box you are commiting yourself to that school ED. You have to go, no matter if you get in to someother program or not. Obviously, the adcoms are going to look at an applicant who checked the box silghtly favorably, but by not checking the box you are def not offending them in anyway; it's like applying ED or RD to any other school.</p>
<p>Yeah, I mean I wasn't implying that it would be offensive not to check it, but they're certainly going to see that you're applying to BROWN if you check that box, not just applying to med programs.</p>
<p>OOO ic, so if I don't want to commit to Brown, I should just apply RD.
thanks!</p>