<p>According to Princeton Review’s best 365 colleges, it states that Brown admissions likes to keep the number of admits from each individual school low, which means that if there are multiple applicants from one school, no matter how competitive they are, there are likely to only be one or two admissions.</p>
<p>Is there any truth to this rumor? Any anecdotes to support or debunk this rumor?</p>
<p>Since Brown’s acceptance rate is about 11%, simple math can answer your question. If there are 10 kids applying from one high school, probably only one will get in. </p>
<p>Brown does not have quotas and has accepted more than one from a high school. But since it is interested in diversity it likes to have a wide range of students which could affect admission decisions for students from the same school.</p>
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My old high school had 10 students matriculate and definitely had around 40 apply this year.</p>
<p>I only know of one other person applying to brown at my school. I wonder if this will be a factor</p>
<p>uroogla, did you go to some elite prep school like philips or some top ranked magnet public school? lol 10 people for one school, thats VERY impressive</p>
<p>Well, my school had 15 apply and 5 get in. With 1 matriculating. So that’s better than most I guess.</p>
<p>Oh and its a somewhat competitive public school.</p>
<p>I’m not sure that Brown prefers to keep the number of admits from each school low but I know from experience that Brown does take a consistent number of kids from certain schools. I went to a competitive school and Brown annually took 8-12 kids out of 30 or so that applied.</p>
<p>I went to a large, uncompetitive (except for the top 5% of class) public school out west. We’re a school that usually sends one person to Harvard OR Stanford OR Princeton per year (I’m not sure we’ve ever had an admit to Yale or MIT). I’m pretty sure we had about 8 applicants to Brown. The one going to her 1st-choice school didn’t bother checking whether she got in, and I believe 3 of us know we got in, and 2 of us are going. Oh, and we didn’t have an admit to Brown the year before.</p>
<p>@piggybank:</p>
<p>I did, but my number and other anecdotal evidence seems to imply that the claim is not true, at least applied generally.</p>
<p>My prep schools sends 5+ annually, don’t know how many actually apply/get in and turn it down, but there are definitely certain schools that are well represented</p>
<p>My year, I know of 5 people that applied to Brown and 2 were accepted. Of the 2, I was the only one to matriculate. I know of 2 kids before me in my school’s history that have attended before me and I know of one who’s going to be a part of the class of 2013. Our school is a ~350/class high school on Long Island who only has about 5-10 kids go to competitive schools each year, depending on what your exact definition of competitive is.</p>
<p>And while I was ADOCH, the Brown open house for accepted pre-frosh, I met a kid who, if I recall correctly, about 5-10 kids accepted from his school. That, to me, was a bit mind boggling.</p>
<p>I’ve always wondered about this myself too.</p>
<p>Probably about 10 people applied from my school and I no one got in.</p>
<p>Our school has sent people to all the ivies and some other really top tier schools (Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Pomona, etc.)</p>
<p>But I wonder why no one has ever got into Brown.</p>
<p>It’s almost as if universities have their own personal favorites list of high school, right? Out hs has a relatively good track record with schools like Brown, Duke, Princeton; neutrality from Columbia, MIT, and Cornell; and hate from Harvard, Yale, Penn, Dartmouth, and Stanford.</p>
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I find this likely, although the list seems to change over time - in general, Harvard and Yale really liked my high school, but the past couple years, it’s been Harvard and Princeton instead. The Brown numbers have fluctuated, but that’s likely because Brown is so different that not everyone is interested in applying; not every year will have a large number of students who want to go.</p>
<p>I think they mostly only let in a ton of kids from the top schools, but since I live here I know that many of the RI public and private schools send multiple kids every year. I think they let in like ten from my school this year alone.</p>
<p>haha i totally agree with the track record. My school is great with Penn, Cornell, Harvard, and especially Princeton, but Brown, Yale and Columbia hate us :X</p>