<p>I didn’t submit part 1 or part 2 yet but I gave one of my teacher the third recommendation form and i think it was mandatory if i wanted to do PLME (i really don’t remember). What should i do?</p>
<p>Perhaps you could include a short letter in your app that tells them to disregard that recommendation.</p>
<p>recommendations can't hurt, if they're good. i applied for the b.a. but i sent in three recs. so unless you think the third rec isn't going to be great, don't worry about it.</p>
<p>isn't the third rec form quite specific to PLME though?</p>
<p>How do i do that if i'm applying online?</p>
<p>You can just stop the PLME part of your app. The Brown part of app stands independently, and you can get accepted there and not accepted to PLME which frequently happens. Just continue with the Brown portion of the process and drop the PLME. You should let your teacher who wrote the rec know that you are not going to continue with the PLME and it is entirely appropriate to give him a nice basket for his troubles and a kind note.</p>
<p>but my teacher already sent it in and i already gave her a gift basket lol</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, Brown will look at your app independent of your PLME situation. As I said, I know many kids accepted to Brown, very few to PLME when they applied to both. You do have to get accepted to Brown in order to get into PLME, the reverse is not so. You can just send PLME a postoffice card letting them know that you are not applying to that program. That is all you have to do. If an integral part of your Brown app was referring to the PLME program, you may want to call the adcoms there and ask what the best thing is to do. A letter explaining your change in mind might be in order. If little mention was made, then you don't have to do a thing. You are not the first who has done this.</p>
<p>thanks so much...i really appreciate your help! id give you a gift basket too if i could hahaha lol</p>
<p>the third rec is specific to math/science, but if you're still applying for an A.B. in, say, biology, then it can't hurt to have the extra rec. in fact, if you're still applying for an sc.b., just not PLME, then the third rec is still mandatory. what program / major are you applying as?</p>
<p>i'm doing biochem Sc.B. u?</p>
<p>i'm doing math, creative writing, and either poli sci or sociology or anthropology or some social science. all A.B. :p</p>
<p>but the reason i asked was because, you definitely should /not/ retract that second rec - as a sc.b. applicant, you need it too.</p>
<p>i'm not exactly sure what the difference is between scb and ab. care to explain if youve got the time?</p>
<p>ab is for the pure sciences: physics, chemistry, biology
scb is for sort of interdisciplinary sciences: engineering, neurology, biochemistry, sciences that are a mix of physics, chemistry or biology</p>
<p>I have a question, too: If my Science Statement or PLME Statement is not good, do you think it will hurt my chances for admission? If my Personal Statement is fine, though?</p>
<p>oh i see....i really like chemistry and biology a lot! should i do ab or scb?</p>
<p>If you do chemistry OR biology, that's ab.
If you do biochemistry, that's scb. </p>
<p>If you decide to put chemistry, you need to complete the Chemistry Statement for 3A, which includes a few essays. And the science recommendation becomes mandatory
If you do biochemistry or biology, these extra forms are not needed. </p>
<p>Btw, weren't you supposed to have declared (not binding) this on part I application? In which case you probably wrote biochem sc.b. --> no extra science essay for you!</p>
<p>no i didn't send part one yet</p>
<p>suburbian, biology is also scb, and same with chemistry and physics. They can all be either ab or scb. The full list can be seen on Brown's Application Instructions:</p>
<p>Scroll down and you'll see it. :)</p>
<p>back before the new curriculum was created, brown had both a.b. and sc.b. degrees so that people who took hardcore science majors, like chemistry or engineering, would be exempt from most/all of the general education requirementsbecause otherwise they just had too many required courses.</p>
<p>now, the only real significance is that the sc.b. degree offers a more rigorous preparation for grad school, if that's what you plan on doing. sc.b. concentrations will still always be bigger, which is why most of the interdisciplinary science concentrations are sc.b-only. for example, cognitive science a.b. requires thirteen courses, but cognitive neuroscience sc.b. (same department) requires sixteen.</p>
<p>most general sciences, like biology, offer the choice of a.b. and sc.b. because they're more likely to attract students who want to get a general science education but don't plan on going to grad school, whether they want to go to med school, business school, law school, or just get a job. a prospective doctor still needs to concentrate in something, and biology is a good candidate, but they don't need to take the same kinds of courses that a prospective biology ph.d. would.</p>
<p>Are we allowed to use the same essay for both the undergrad app "tell us something about yourself" and the PLME "why you want to be a physician" essay or will that look bad?</p>