<p>So, I just found out my friend is applying to Brown. In a way, it’s making me feel uneasy because we’ve always been friends and the fact that we are competing against each other makes me feel discouraged. She has better stats than me too…</p>
<p>Another thing is that whenever I tell her I’m applying to LACs, she would frown upon it and ask, “Uh, why would you do that?”</p>
<p>She doesn’t even know what you wants in a school…and that bothers me because I know why Brown is my first choice yet she doesn’t and she’s applying.</p>
<p>And I don’t think she even knows Brown is a LAC…how should I tell her in a nice way that Brown probably isn’t best for her?</p>
<p>My friend and I are both applying ED as well. </p>
<p>She used to be one of my best friends but we fell out two years ago. She’s really competitive and I’m much more laid back so we don’t really click. Now we still hang out occasionally but whenever Brown comes up in the conversation everything gets VERY awkward, so I can absolutely relate to you. :/</p>
<p>I met this girl when the Brown representative came to my school to give the introdution speech about Brown and anyone who wanted to listen to it was welcome to participate. She was from a different school so I didn’t know her. When we saw that we were both applying ED to Brown we started talking and we have been inseperable ever since. It’s unbelievable how much we “clicked” and we don’t think we are affecting each others’ chance of acceptance at all because we both believe that we’ll both get in.
And even if neither of us do, we still have each other to comfort, so we are quite happy.</p>
<p>At my school, with a senior class of 98 girls, we all try very hard to avoid ED overlaps. It’s a big deal, and it’s considered a personal offense if one student applies ED without telling another student who’s already informed the class. </p>
<p>Yay girls’ schools and our abundance of useful formalities.</p>
<p>At first I rolled my eyes, it’s true. But there are scary stats in the counselors’ offices that show when two students at my school have applied to the same selective school ED, one is always rejected–not deferred, but rejected.</p>
<p>It’s probably because my school is so small. Not only are colleges wary of having too many Catholic schoolgirls from the same place, but at a school the size of mine, competition for the same place does not go over well unless it’s for sports (and boy do we love sports).</p>
<p>I’m sure I scared someone away from Brown. :-</p>
<p>That’s crazy that it’s a “personal offense”, but then I go to a public school with 300 people in my grade…
Two other people in my class are applying ED to Brown so I’m KINDA nervous, and we all have similar stats.
The 11th seems so far away =[</p>
<p>my grade has about 300 or so students, but only three or four other kids have applied to any school ED, and none of them to brown. one of my friends applied to columbia ED, but i’m so glad that none of my friends have applied to brown so far, because they sound just like the girls at your all girl’s school!! haha…i’m more laid-back too.</p>
<p>also, i’ve heard that sometimes admissions staff will know your specific school, but it is generally more of an area thing. i can’t wait for the 11th!!! good luck to everyone, we should stop stressing out so much!! ;D</p>
<p>I promise (really, I PROMISE) that ten years from now you’ll look back and wonder why you were obsessing so much on this. There are times when a highly selective school will take a whole collection from a single high school. It DOES happen. And many years it doesn’t. Those that don’t get their first choice will weep bitter tears and then find another path.<br>
I was jilted a month before a set wedding date (had church, dress, invites, cake . . you name it). I cried for three days straight. I thought my world had ended. Eventually I got tired of crying. I went to work, went to graduate school . . . and have had a marvelous life (including marrying the most incredible man — WAYY better than Groom 1.0).<br>
So, sometimes you get disappointed and spend three days with Kleenex. I PROMISE that it’s a marvelous world and there are some other wonderful paths out there if Path 1.0 doesn’t work out. Good luck!</p>