<p>hey so how many middle eastern people get accepted and should i put that as my ethnicity or asian.</p>
<p>What are my chances of getting into the PLME program if i put that as my ethnicity???</p>
<p>umm it wont help you or hurt you</p>
<p>why not don't the admissions people need to fill a certain quota?????????</p>
<p>oh, you want to know the sad and awful truth? I'm an arab. They do have a quota for the middle east. One of the admissions officers is a turkish woman, the ass doesnt accept arabs and fills up the quota with turks. its complete bulls*it. I recently got rejected ED. Everyone was shocked to find that out including me, I have a 98-99% and amazing stats overall, my SAT scores aren't the best, but are very good considering the people applying from my country. Anyway, i called to ask why i got rejected, and one of the admissions offficers told me my grades were too low, ofcourse everyone knows thats bs because how the hell can my grades be low?! she could have said my essays weren't that great, she could have made up any excuse, but using my grades as a cover is stupid. I know 5 arabs apply last year to Brown, all whom got rejected. Now, they are at Harvard, georgetown, wellesley, and UCLA. Brown don't like arabs, its a fact, so unless you're turkish, I think being middle eastern will hurt your application. Sorry.</p>
<p>I don't think that is a fair statement. I know of a couple of Arabs here. One of them are from Kuwait and the other are from Palestine. I don't think that is a fair comment on your part...</p>
<p>2 arabs mhmm...frrom like more than 10 countries, how many turks? more than the arabs.
and btw I'm from Saudi, are there any saudi's there? I think not, my cousins graduated from there a few years back and since then I'm pretty sure no saudi has got it.</p>
<p>That's an awfully strong statement to make without knowing more about the inner workings of the admissions department. I understand that you're bitter, but I think you're jumping to conclusions a little too easily.</p>
<p>I really dont think I am, the admissions lady told me your whole application was perfect and the only reason we rejected you was because of your grades? I dont get it, i asked her how is a 99% low, shes like uhh,,,uhh,,,,and just said its okay u can always transfer!
my interviewer implied I would get in cause, he told me I was one of the best applicants hes seen in ages, and still I got rejected, even my interviewer was surprised.
and yes, I am bitter about it, but I really dont care anymore. If a university doesnt want to accept just because of where Im from, I really don't think I want to study there. Hopefully Ill get in somewhere better, and send them the acceptence letter from that uni with the rejecttion letter they sent me.</p>
<p>so my father is half turk and half Saudi then i guess my best bet is putting down turk for my application right?????????</p>
<p>Actually, I know of another guy from Egypt. That's like 3 guys that I know. I mean.... It shows that there're much more arab students. Besides, I remembered the prince of Jordan attended Brown as well. As far as I know, Brown isn't exactly well known in that part of the region and we do not receive a lot of applicants from that part of the world. But, the fact that I know 3 persons alone show that they're probably well-represented. I still don't think that you are making a fair statement here. And given the fact that there're 2 admission officer reading your applications, your decision were agreed by the 2 of them. Anyway, I don't think that they really want to talk about the admission proccess. Like, a rejection letter would always say "unfortunately, we received a lot of qualified applicants." when in real life, it might not be true. I mean.... They'd have to be diplomatic and stuff.</p>
<p>Just would like to make sure that we're in the same wavelength. i am talking about international mid-eastern. American mid-eastrn... There're like a lot of them....</p>
<p>I do realize Brown isnt very well known in the Middle East, but still, a lot of qualified Arabs apply and get rejected. Btw, how is 3 Arabs at Brown well represented when there over 10 Arab countries, whereas Turks have a much bigger presence on the Brown campus when its only one country.
A lot of my friends get into the top schools in the states, but all get rejected from Brown. Don't you guys just find all of this a bit weird or suspicious?</p>
<p>hahahha this thread is hilarious :P</p>
<p>You, juggieburger, are incredibly bitter</p>
<p>I understand that Brown was your first choice, but it's unfair to other applicants and representatives of the university to hear you make these statements with no foundation.</p>
<p>I understand that you're upset and please.</p>
<p>And btw, I doubt that the lady you spoke to knows the real reason why you were rejected. She was probably just saying something to answer you. Imagine how many applicants request to know the reason that they weren't accepted. It'd be impossible and unfair to the people in the admissions office to fill you in on the areas that were lacking.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you in your other applications.</p>
<p>You, sir, have no statistics to prove the claim that there are more turks than arabs at brown. I, for instance, know no turks where as I know 3 arabs personally. Well... It'a not for you to say what and who is considered qualified. Also, it is ridiculously illogical to suggest that there ought to be a correlation between states and number of students. For example: I believe that Brown accepted about 50 people from Singapore last year while the number from, say, China is significantly smaller.</p>
<p>ofcourse there is, they use the quota system, and its not something that happend one certain year, its been happening for years.
I dont get why so many of you are getting offended.</p>
<p>I don't see the reason how you are suddenly acquainted with the whole admission proccess and are able to come up with the most ridiculous thesis that some turkish lady who is out to ruin all the arabs. I mean... The fact that you are not able to take the rejection very well and the fact that you are blaming it on someone else shows that you deserve to be rejected. The reason why some of us are offended is because you are making groundless accusation,which is both improper and immature.</p>
<p>I read that Brown accepts only a few foreign students with considerable financial needs during ED. They want to make sure they use their OWN money (no federal aid) for the best people; if they accepted too many during ED, they would regret to see better students applying RD. So you have intact chances still, unless they see your posts here, hehe just kidding.</p>
<p>i didnt come up with this **** on my own, a family friend who is sort of affiliated with Brown he was on the Board or something told me this before my decision came out.
Ky07, I didnt apply for financial aid</p>
<p>Well, they do have a quota for internationals in general, so it might apply as well (change money for space). It's just hard to believe that one single Turk can control middle eastern admissions just for her preference...it's a heavy accusation.</p>