<p>not exactly, but i just visited brown AND I LOVED IT
I'm definitely not a shoe in but i atleast thought i had some semblance of a chance... 1580/1600 SAT never gotten a B and im 6/800
finished 7 AP's with 4s and 5s (taking 6 more this year)
really involved and accomplished in both studio art and science research
whatever..</p>
<p>and then i find out that my friend is being recruited to brown for lacrosse!!
She's signing the papers really soon so its almost a done deal. Ive heard that top university's wont accept 2 people from the same school usually.. even though there are like 3400 kids in my school. AM I RIGHT? ARE MY CHANCES DOWN THE DRAIN?</p>
<p>Don't panic.</p>
<p>Stanford recruited two athletes (football and running) from my school, and I still got in (SCEA). And UPenn recruited two lacrosse players and accepted 4, two early, two regular (2 to Wharton). Princeton recruited one laxer and accepted one ED...this is all my class.</p>
<p>No they're not, stop worrying, for the most part schools are happy to take the best applicants, and if you're one of them [and it looks like you have some strong stats] then you really shouldn't be worried. Granted, you should check on your school's successes in the past, so say brown accepted two last year from your school, don't expect that number to jump up to ten, but yeah you get the picture, and no your life is not ruined.</p>
<p>I was worried when I first saw this thread! There is really no need to worry. Your stats put you in a very competitive position. Colleges always look for the best of the best. There is no quota on how many students may attend from each school. Generally, high schools that don't normally produce very many Ivy-caliber students rarely send very many to big-name colleges, but if you are bright and talented (which you seem to be) there is nothing holding you back.</p>
<p>Brown took one of my friends for girls lax this year, and still took two other applicants from my school. This is a myth, unless brown has a history of hating your school.</p>
<p>well, things are a bit different at georgetown prep :) , but heres my class</p>
<p>1 lax recruit to harvard, one other accepted scea and one accepted regular
1 lax recruit to jhu, three others accepted rd (including me)
1 lax recruit to gtown, one other accepted EA
1 xc/track recruit to columbia, two others accepted regular
1 xc/track recruit to uchicago, one other accepted EA</p>
<p>Nice high school, georgetown prep.</p>
<p>We only had two recruits-- one to Brown and one to Stanford this year.
One stuent was accepted ED to Brown, two other students were accepted RD excluding the Brown recruit.</p>
<p>One student was accepted SCEA to Stanford, and three RA excluding the Stanford recruit.</p>
<p>i dont go there, somebodynew does</p>
<p>it depends on how competitive your school is. if the 5 people above you all have brown at the top of their lists and apply ED your chances are very low for getting in. remember, everyone applying is your competition, not just people at your school (unless your from alaska, ivys like to have all 50 states). also, recruited atheletes have a very different application process from regular students. even if your classmate wasnt recruited, you may not get into brown because it is fairly eccentric in selecting students (according to my school's college counselor) so it may take students with worse stats for no apparent reason. just apply ED and hope for the best. good luck.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the lowest stats of the atheletes from their school who got into Ivies?</p>
<p>JHU took about ten ppl from my school
Cornell 2
and columbia 3
someone i know had about 4 ppl going to harvard at her school
So it's a myth</p>
<p>Horace Mann in NY has about 8 - 10 kids going to Princeton each year...</p>
<p>woah....sextuple post?</p>
<p>Athlete stats for ivies and near ivies</p>
<p>Harvard lax- rank 40/449, old SAT 1350, 490 Writing SATII, AP US-2, AP Euro-3</p>
<p>JHU lax- rank- maybe barely top half, old SAT 1060, new SAT 1580-1600, no APs ever taken</p>
<p>Duke lax- rank- maybe top quarter, if that, old SAT 1240, no APs</p>
<p>Columbia track- top 20%, 1280 old SAT, no APs before senior year</p>
<p>Brown lax- rank 120/449, 1160 old SAT, no APs before senior year</p>
<p>Don't worry, one year at my high school, eight (8) kids went to Stanford :-O That wasn't typical, but multiple ppl got in each year. </p>
<p>I wonder w/respect to ckmets13's post, if a person with such low stats could realistically handle the academics at a school like Hopkins or Brown. I know that sounds horribly snooty, but I'm just saying maybe you shouldn't feel TOO jealous of some of the kids recruited for athletics.</p>
<p>aren't the classes the same inmost colleges? Would there really be a difference in Harvard chem 101 vs. Maryland chem 101? It's the prestige and and famous alumni that make top colleges look unattainable so I don't think academically they'd be in any different situation than if they were at another college. If they really are dumb then they'll be dumb even in community college</p>
<p>the girl who is going to brown is actually smart though, she will be able to handle it there (bad freshman year, gpa actually over 100 w now, just had trouble with the SAT. hopkins kid is another story, im not sure how far he willl make it.</p>
<p>trackbabi, going to a top school does affect gpa because of the curve. it is harder to be a top student in an mit engineering class tahn in a community college intro class</p>
<p>dude wth...i go to a really competitive public school, and like 3 ppl got into brown, 6 to stanford, 4 to princeton, 6 to cornell, u get the idea. it doesn't matter if u go to a school w/ lot of ppl. w/ those stats esp w/ that 1580/1600, Brown would be worth a damn shot.</p>
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She's signing the papers really soon so its almost a done deal. Ive heard that top university's wont accept 2 people from the same school usually.. even though there are like 3400 kids in my school. AM I RIGHT? ARE MY CHANCES DOWN THE DRAIN?
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<p>Usually, ivy league schools don't make you sign papers, since they can't officially bind you or anything. Schools like duke and stanford can make you commit, etc..</p>