<p>So I am an incoming senior in High School and I am not asking for a major chance thing. I am simply wondering how likely it is for someone to get in who is not in the top 10% of their class? In my school I will be in the top 11% but due to some people taking easy classes and doing perfectly in everything I will be unable to get into the top 10%. So how likely would it be to get in if you just barely miss getting into the top 10%?</p>
<p>It really depends on your school and what your guidance counselor says. At many private schools and selective high schools (like Stuyvesant in NYC), Brown will go deeper into the class. If your GC makes it really clear that your rank does not reflect your true status because there is no weighting of GPAs, then that will help you. If you offer something that Brown REALLY wants (like, athletic ability, geographic diversity) then it will overlook your rank. But in most cases, it is rare that Brown accepts a student who is outside the top decile – in fact, usually only the very top students (top 1-5%) are accepted.</p>
<p>Well this gives you some info (but you probably know this): [Admission</a> Facts | Undergraduate Admission](<a href=“Undergraduate Admission | Brown University”>Undergraduate Admission | Brown University)</p>
<p>Regardless though I don’t think there should be a huge difference between top 10% and top 11%, esp. if you do well on test scores and stuff.</p>
<p>Brown’s admission system is highly unpredictable, but the posters above are correct. You’re chances are much higher if you’re in the Top 5-10% of your graduating class. But I was accepted with a 12% class rank, so go figure.</p>
<p>Yeah I was 60/400 and I got in ED, it’s definitely not impossible.</p>
<p>(But then again I had a 3.98 GPA – one B+ – so there was clearly pretty rampant Grade Inflation going on there)</p>
<p>I’m under the impression that it depends on the caliber of the high school you go to.</p>
<p>Hey, though, fireandrain, will Brown go deeper into the class at high schools that aren’t selective but are very good? I go to a public HS and am barely outside the top 10%, but many people do very well on standardized tests here (I think a couple people got 36P’s on the ACT last year, aside from a few regular 36’s) and our honors classes are considered to be not much below (sometimes a bit above) the level of AP classes. Our school may have a profile there, but I don’t want Brown to just think of my school as equivalent to an average inner-city one just because it’s public.</p>
<p>Emberjed,</p>
<p>You are correct. I cannot speak to how your school is viewed but some high schools are treated differently than others. For example, I was just outside the top 20% of my class and got in off the wait list. For reference, the median SAT score for my class was 1490/1600, and nearly 40% of my class ended up at ivy league schools.</p>
<p>^Holy… FORTY percent? That seems amazing even among what I’ve heard described as “Ivy feeder” schools. With a record like that, I’ll assume those SAT numbers are out of 1600.</p>
<p>At my high school, probably around 3% go to Ivies, though a lot more go to a pool of schools like Stanford, MIT, Rice, UChicago, Northwestern, etc. Still pretty good, I think.</p>
<p>Yes, I went to one of the fabled “feeder” schools. I was class of 2005 so I meant 1490 back when there were only 2 sections. I’ll be honest, the numbers have dropped as the admissions game has intensified (and our renowned college counselor retired). When I was accepted I believe Brown had literally half as many applicants as it does now.</p>
<p>How has the top 10% of your school fared in the past few years? If most of them end up at top 25 schools then you’re rank won’t keep you out of Brown. There’s a reason that admissions officers are assigned to certain regions and thus schools.</p>
<p>Oh, they totally do. The range of people who’ve ended up at top 25 schools probably extends throughout the top 20%. Not everyone wants to go to those schools, though; even some people with very good GPAs and test scores just end up at fairly selective liberal arts colleges that wouldn’t make that list.</p>