<p>Hey…you’re getting off the topic here!</p>
<p>I wonder about minority percentages. If one looks through the admitted for ED thread, is there a large percentage of URM, (black and Hispanic, right?), legacy, athletes, and under-represented states/countries? How does that compare with the unhooked applicants? Wasn’t that the OP question, and what do you think?</p>
<p>i know there was definitely an increase in hooks. the people on facebook ive met alot of them have not been white. but there have been some as well, but from what ive heard it is absolutely more diverse.</p>
<p>j0em4d: I’ll try to answer your question, but I really don’t know the complete answer, and this is just my perspective.</p>
<p>While there are some people on CC who dispute this, Brown considers itself a liberal arts school with equal emphasis on humanities, social sciences and hard sciences. However, for some reason, in the last few years it has gotten a reputation as being a school that is not strong in the sciences (if you look at hundreds of CC threads, does anyone ever recommend Brown as the school to attend for computer science or geology or engineering? No, people recommend Cornell or tech schools – yet Brown has an exceptionally strong CS dept., for example).</p>
<p>But Brown has poured a lot of money into some of these sciences – new labs, new faculty. These labs and faculty are there to be utilized. There needs to be students working in those new labs and taking classes with those new profs. Yet so many applicants to Brown want to major in international relations or psychology or history or biology. Frankly, a girl who wants to major in international relations is a dime a dozen, while a guy who wants to be an engineer is an underrepresented minority. </p>
<p>A lot of it comes down to money. There is a lot of money (in federal grants, for instance) in scientific research, and Brown wants that money. Plus, Brown spends money on those science facilities, and doesn’t want them to be underutilized.</p>
<p>ditto fireandrain’s post. they make an effort to fill some majors especially when money could go to waste</p>
<p>We want to only accept the strongest science students like we do in other areas, but we have lower yields amongst those students. So we tend to accept more top science students to end up with the same number of similarly qualified applicants in that area as we do in other areas.</p>
<p>yeah i posted a chance thread a while back and put it in multiple forums. I put down my major as engineering and said my first choice was Brown, ED. No joke, one of the comments was “Brown For Engineering? What are you smoking?” i found that extremely offensive, because i had done alot of research and found the program quite good. then other posts did try and persuade me to look at Cornell instead. But i do not regret my decision at all so far. we will see once i get there. but from what i have read is that i will not be dissapointed.</p>
<p>So, modestmelody, can you tell me about how much of an advantage URM status gives me?</p>
<p>it definitely gives you an advantage. basically if you are not white or asian. also if you are from different regions as well like the midwest that helps too. how much, idk but i got in im hispanic and i have a 1970 sat. but thats about as much as i can tell you.</p>
<p>^ are you a boy or girl?</p>