<p>My brother attended Brown and is graduating this year. He has been a TA in five separate courses across his four years and had a pretty high GPA. Does this help me at all? I’m not trying to piggy back off of him into college, I’m just wondering if this is similar to legacy or if it is nothing. Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m sure it will play a small role in your chances. Brown does like having siblings. I don’t think it’s officially “legacy” status as that only applies to parents/grandparents, but this should help a bit.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply :)</p>
<p>Definitely helps in a “legacy” way. Also in a comparative way if you went to the same HS, had similar grades there, admissions is going to have a better bet that you may also do well at Brown. (When /if you are at Brown then he will already have graduated so he will be a legacy first degree relative. And Brown knows that increases the chance that either of you or your parents will “feel kindly” to Brown.)</p>
<p>It helps in a “legacy” way but your grades & all that have to be Brown-level too.</p>
<p>My son will be a sophomore a Brown. He is doing very well.</p>
<p>My daughter is two years younger and loves Brown. She did a Summer@Brown course and now she wants to apply ED. I think it is a little risky because her ACT composite is only a 29. She is taking it again next month and I would guess that she could get a 30 or even a 31. Here weighted GPA is 4.08 and she takes many AP courses. She also is strong runner–19:04 in the 5k and a 2:21 in the 800m. This is not strong enough to get recruited at Brown but it should strengthen her application. She is a recruitable D3 athlete. She is also from an underrepresented region. </p>
<p>Can the sibling card tip the balance in her favor?</p>
<p>It can if they get a feeling from her ap essays that she really understands Brown (in part from a sib there) and they get the feeling that she really wants to attend, and is not just “applying because brother went there so more likely to get in.” I’m sometimes surprised at sibs, friends etc who say they really want to go to Brown, have “X” at the school who got them really excited and then proceed to demonstrate that they actually know almost nothing about the school except “X says it’s so cool and really likes it”.
The track could also be a tipping point if there is a strong demonstration that she wants to keep running. (quite a few recruits don’t stay on teams, so coaches like to have “extra interest” even if they can’t go to the level of “likely” I’ve heard of them “putting in a word” for an applicant. Esp a tipping point for female athletes.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response.</p>
<p>She really loved it there for the week she was taking the “Writing the College Admissions Essay” pre-college course. She met so many people that she liked.</p>
<p>She’s also leaning toward engineering which I am told helps females. (Normally, acceptance rates are lower for females at Ivies because they are trying to maintain that 50/50 balance.)</p>
<p>As great as summer@brown is, I would not use the people she met there as reason to apply. The two pools of students are quite different (speaking from personal experience as both a s@b attendee and a brown alumnus)</p>