Is it detrimental in any way to send all your ACT scores to colleges???

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<p>Whoa ... I wish you had pm-ed me :( I wasn't trying to bully you and I'm sorry that I came across that way to you. Obviously, what I intended and how it came across were entirely different -- my own fault for dashing off a comment irrelevant to the topic at hand rather than doing two separate posts. I can see how you might have interpreted my comment the way you did and that you are upset about it. Certainly, I do apologize. It was not deliberate, I assure you.</p>

<p>The second pyramid thing has been bothering me since you first mentioned it, because I had been planning my trip for years and always heard it wasn't allowed. I had a list of what I wanted to see from studying guidebooks and web sites for years. I forgot to say something when we first discussed Egypt and it never seemed worth a separate post. I have heard of people being allowed in places they aren't theoretically allowed to be by "special payments." (I belong to a Yahoo group of Egyptophiles, and this is a perennial concern. Places are closed to tourists in order to protect them from humidity, etc.) Nothing against you, but I think your guide got you in a place tourists weren't supposed to go. (I subscribe to an ancient Egypt magazine and have for years and they report what is open, etc.) Obviously, now that you've explained, I accept it.</p>

<p>Addition with edit: looking at my comment again, I can see that it was also rather inartfully drafted, to boot. Mea culpa, once again.</p>

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<h2>DianeR, I got into Brown, I'm SO EXCITED! I also got accepted to Columbia and Duke, but after getting the nod from brown, threw thoughts of attending those away! Maybe we can chat about brown.</h2>

<p>Don't let people tell you that ACTs will keep you out of ivies!</p>

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<p>Wow, oh wow, I'm so happy for you! Is Brown your first choice now?</p>

<p>My daughter is very, very happy there. Indeed, she says she is so glad she didn't get in Penn ED. She applied to Penn rather than to Brown ED because she thought she had a better chance at the former. But additional research made her see that the open curriculum at Brown was really important to her. (Her final choice came down to Brown versus Chicago.) She loved being able to jump right into what she wanted to study, rather than spent close to two years (at $40,000 per) studying stuff she wasn't interested in. Then again, different people want different things. Some love the core curriculum sort of places; a friend of my daughter's (one of the rare WOW [walk on water] candidates that got into absolutely every elite place she applied, and manages to be about the sweetest person you can imagine) opted for Yale because the openness of Brown's curriculum made her nervous.</p>

<p>There are advisors at Brown (both faculty and peer) to help people made decisions -- just to make that clear!</p>

<p>I mentioned the area around Georgetown. Well, the area around Brown is great, too. Have you visited? Thayer has a number of restaurants and stores, and downtown (and its mall) is only a short walk away.</p>

<p>The students seem to really like the school and each other. It does not seem a very high pressured or competitive place at all (except if you are premed or something). Students arrange study sessions with classmates, help each other out, and the like. You can take anything satisfactory/no credit if you wish (and even change the status between graded and that during the semester, up to a particular point).</p>

<p>The professors all seem very approachable. My daughter was homeschooled in her last 5+ years and so was used to having a lot of back-and-forth about her studies. So she is always going into her professors' offices, emailing them, and the like.</p>

<p>Her classes have all been taught by professors and been relatively small, except for her current intro to archaeology class which has 94 students. I suppose the size of classes and the importance of TA's depends on what one takes. I think a TA handled the lab portion of her geology class last semester, but I don't remember for sure.</p>

<p>This is all I can think of to say, off hand. Feel free to PM or email me with any questions. If you like, I could also put you in touch with my daughter -- although she is pretty busy right now (two papers and a major project to be finished in the next month, and two early finals at the end of it). Of course, there is always the Brown forum on CC.</p>

<p>Are you thinking of visiting Brown in the special admitted students program? I know that is coming up next month; my daughter and her roommate have volunteered to have a couple admittees stay with them. It would be something if you were one of them (unless you are male ... I can't remember if you have mentioned your sex!)</p>

<p>Again, congratulations!</p>

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<p>DianeR, thanks and Brown was a top chioce for me among two-three others, but it's over 80% likely at this point that I'm going to Brown. I love the happiness, community, quirkiness, open curriculum, lack of stuffiness in a New England location, and the list goes on and on. I'm psyched. Thanks for the offer of email and PM...expect one soon!</p>

<p>Edit: I'm male...</p>

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<p>OK, you can't stay with my daughter :)</p>

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<p>By the way, is it normal for a student to perform better on the SAT than the ACT??? I think I might fall under that category...I just suck at the Science Reasoning section.:(</p>

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<p>It is no more abnormal than performing better on the ACT. I think it just balances out over groups of people.</p>

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<p>Why would you send your scores before you even know what they are ? Do they ask you that on the test before you take it? Can you send them to the schools after you see the results?</p>

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<p>If you specify ahead of time, a certain number of score reports are free. That's the only advantage -- and not a very big one since the cost of score reports after-the-fact is rather small.</p>