<p>oooohh....the deadline isn't that far off and yet...the results... Well, :) at least you don't have to wait until April to get results for the uni you REALLY want to matriculate at!</p>
<p>well, you haven't thought about that most probable fact: that I may be deffered or even rejected from Brown ED. so....</p>
<p>I did think of that. I decided not to mention it because <em>wagging my finger at you</em> you gotta be optimistic!! :D:D:D:D</p>
<p>well I am optimistic....still have to maintain my sense of reality though... :)</p>
<p><em>plunking hands on hips</em> It's hard to be both, sometimes!!! So just think "I'm passionate about Brown... I will show it through my essays. And if they don't accept me, that's okay cause I don't want to be in the same uni as Izzy's previous principal's uptight daughter!"</p>
<p>(Yes, I'm self-centered.)</p>
<p>"uptight daughter"??? was was she doing at Brown????? :P</p>
<p>I don't know! (If you mean her major, no idea about that. If you mean her personality, nu stiu. Spelt right?) She's got her parents' examples to live up to, so that's probably why she's also very rigid and opinionated. Not easy having your mom AND dad as teachers at your high schools...</p>
<p>yes...I was talking about her personality. and yes. the spelling is right ;)</p>
<p>So Brown isn't as stody and uptight and conservative as my stereotyped thinking of Princeton is? (You know that classmate of mine I was talking to on Saturday? She was thinkin' of applying to Brown ED, too, before she switched to JHU. Another competitor eliminated!)</p>
<p>Maybe she managed somehow to convince the admin people she was a cool, one-of-a-kind person...or maybe she just had a hidden side to her not shown at school. :)</p>
<p>well as far as I know Brown people are kinda hippie, they very much like having fun(much more than people from other univ)..... they're not conservative! (or else I should bette go and find myself another school! :p ) ...jokin...(pls don't understand from this post that the only reason I want to go to Brown is because of the parties...I was just expressing my point of view concerning what you said before :D )</p>
<p>ok what did i miss here? :D</p>
<p>Through my very limited knowledge of Brown people (exactly two whom I met during a debate tournament here, not exactly a representative sample), they don't see to be uptight and conservative by any means - in fact they seem very liberal and outgoing, which is kind of the standard image of Brown.</p>
<p>:D oh yeah! go Brown! ;)</p>
<p>yeah i also heard that brown=hippies</p>
<p>But after all it is cool that a gr8 school has such a gr8 ambience......</p>
<p>Fun + Study + Good College == Fantastic combination</p>
<p>Sucks we can't visit universities/colleges. :(:(:(</p>
<p>I'm just so lost reading "Students Says" in PrincetonReview and in their brochures what a school's atmosphere could possibly be like and whethe I would adore or detest it!</p>
<p>yeah....I share the same pain as you...still...there is a difference. I know for sure it can't be worse than my high school :p</p>
<p>Lakshmi, what made you decide Brown was THE school for you? Courses? Something in their brochure/prospectus hooked you? What? Their location? Prestige? I mean...it seems as though visits are the best way to go about it.</p>
<p>I read about students saying "I knew when I set foot on the campus, this was the place I wanted to go to" and applied ED and got accepted. Lucky them. I wonder what makes adcoms decide to accept int'l students who they won't know <em>for sure</em> fit the school's atmosphere if they've never visited themselves. Would this make the essay of an int'l kid (or someone who never visited) even MORE important? </p>
<p>It's SOOO unfair!!! <em>groans</em></p>
<p><em>wince</em> Sorry, Lakshmi, if I made you more nervous.</p>
<p>And...what IS your high school like? I kinda detest the atmosphere at my school.</p>
<p>well, my high school is full of people with old, comunistic mentalities... that have all this stupid ideas about discipline being the most important factor in the educational system....but there isn't any discipline in the school, there only seems to be, and while concerned about this, they forget the most important thing: academics. in here one has to struggle way more to actually learn....so....I pretty much hate my school.
what interested me in Brown?.... well, actually at first it was a friend of mine that got accepted at Princeton :p ....yeah...I know...seems kinda odd, but anyway.... I started doing some research about the school, reading those "student says", and all kinds of forums, plus I went to their website, I saw pictures, I went to the departement of mathematics' website, looked at their courses, asked around here at CC, so I guess I can say I've done most of the things a person that can't go see the campus would. I'm still very excited about this univ, and I'm positive I'll like it very much if I get in :)</p>
<p>Discipline vs. academics. Usually discipline can HELP academics, but yes, if the former lacks, the academics usually falter. :( But, hopefully, with the school somewhat lacking in academics, it'll show how motivated you are in learning by yourself. Yay! (I wonder what your school profile says about itself!)</p>
<p>Hmm...true. I didn't hear of a LOT of colleges until my friends last year started stalking about it. Then out of curiosity I checked out the ones they were applying to/got accepted by and found some that I REALLY liked. (Hence, Carleton and Macalester and Wesleyan :))</p>
<p>We shall cross our fingers when you send off your application!</p>