<p>Also does it hurt your chances to apply PLME
(Regular Decision to Brown University and the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME))</p>
<p>To answer you question, yes. I applied about 11 years ago, and was accepted to Brown but not PLME. </p>
<p>Initially it was quite sad because my acceptance letter’s second paragraph was the rejection of PLME. It didn’t exactly go on my refrigerator.</p>
<p>Honestly though, everything turned out just fine. My years at Brown absolutely rocked. I did get into medical school, and am now practicing at a top research hospital on the west coast. Brown opened all kinds of doors for me.</p>
<p>Good luck to all the hopefuls!</p>
<p>It definitely doesn’t hurt your Brown chances to apply PLME. The way it works is that the Brown undergrad admissions office evaluates your application first, and then if you’re accepted, they send your packet to the PLME admissions people. Remember to check/not check the box, depending on whether you still want your Brown acceptance if you don’t get into PLME. Good luck!</p>
<p>^ohh I see. So you have to get into Brown undergrad first or PLME won’t even get to see your application. That sucks :(</p>
<p>Does the admissions office for Brown also read your PLME essays?</p>
<p>^good question. Can someone answer?</p>
<p>I believe that a different admissions committee (from the medical school, probably) reads your PLME essays.</p>
<p>yes, but only after you are admitted into Brown. The question is: do the Brown undergrad admissions officers read your PLME essays too?</p>
<p>note to OP: on the common app, there is only an option to check a response to “do you want to be considered for Brown undergrad even if you don’t make it into PLME” if you do <em>ED</em>. It says it only applies to ED, so I’m not sure how it works with RD, but to my understanding, you can be accepted into Brown and not PLME even if you do RD</p>
<p>An addendum to RainbowSprinkles:</p>
<p>The reason it says it only applies to ED is because the ED is binding - they don’t want to bind you to Brown if you only applied because of PLME. You can definitely still only get in for Brown RD, but they don’t bother asking whether you’re still interested in Brown undergrad there because you can make the decision on your own.</p>
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<p>I don’t know – I’ve never asked this question or heard it answered – but my guess is that admissions reads everything. It’s hard to imagine them ignoring anything in your folder.</p>
<p>someone said in a different thread that they don’t look at PLME essays. They read the “normal” Brown undergrad essays and only send PLME essays off for the PLME admission officers to read</p>
<p>ok here’s a more detailed question</p>
<p>Let’s say Student X applies to PLME Early Decision and checks the box that says that he will be released from the ED agreement if he is not accepted to PLME </p>
<p>Student X is approved by the general admissions committee and his application is sent to the PLME committee. The PLME committee decides Student X cannot make it to PLME and as such, Student X is deferred.</p>
<p>Will Student X’s application be reread in the RD round or will it be basically automatically accepted to general college because his application was already approved in the ED round?</p>
<p>Iceberg: I’ll try to answer your question.</p>
<p>If Student X was approved by the general adcom but denied by PLME, student X would be released from the ED agreement and basically rejected from Brown, not reread in the RD deferral round. As I know about the process, at least.</p>
<p>What?! That’s ridiculous. How could Brown entirely reject a student just because they didn’t make it into PLME? If they accepted them into undergrad, and not PLME, doesn’t the student get into undergrad anyway?</p>
<p>Wait what?</p>
<p>I thought if the student was approved by the general adcom but rejected my PLME, then he would simply be deferred to the RD round.</p>
<p>For RD, if a student is accepted into Brown undergrad, but got rejected by PLME, is s/he still accepted into Brown (general undergrad)??</p>
<p>As far as I know,</p>
<p>@Iceburg: Yup, you presume correctly, but only if the said student checked the box indicating “Yes, I wish to still be considered for admission to Brown University even if I am not admitted to Brown’s PLME” on his/her application when s/he applied ED.</p>
<p>@RainbowSprinkles: Yup, you’re correct. S/he is still accepted into Brown’s normal non-PLME undergraduate program.</p>
<p>Guys please correct me if I am mistaken :)</p>
<p>@Jayster</p>
<p>No, that is not what the statement says. It actually says:</p>
<p>" If your Early Decision application to the PLME is not successful in December, do you still want to be considered as an applicant to The College under our binding Early Decision program?"</p>
<p>So even if you check “no”, you are still considered for Brown in the regular round (assuming you don’t get completely rejected ED)- just not under the BINDING agreement.</p>
<p>okay, but what’s it like for<em>RD</em>?</p>
<p>to quote my previous post:
“For RD, if a student is accepted into Brown undergrad, but got rejected by PLME, is s/he still accepted into Brown (general undergrad)??”</p>