<p>On January 3rd this “teaser” appeared on the front page of [url=<a href=“http://www.Brown.edu%5DBrown”>http://www.Brown.edu]Brown</a> University<a href=“move%20your%20curser%20over%20%22Admission%22%20to%20see%20it”>/url</a>: </p>
<p>“It will take 19 Admission officers and a staff of more than 20 to process, read and evaluate the more than 25,000 applications submitted to Brown this year.” </p>
<p>Say what? 25,000?
Rumor had said 28K, 30K, 32K … an admit rate of “nine point something” … level with Columbia and Princeton.
Um, apparently not.<br>
What can you tell us, Modest?</p>
<p>I’m still guessing that will be around the final numbers though. The admissions staff is probably seeing a slow drop off in incoming applications and just made a ball-park prediction. </p>
<p>The information I heard came from early November and was determined by looking at current flow of application and people who signed up to apply and where they were projecting based on historic data.</p>
<p>Not sure where the numbers ended up, we’ll have to wait to see the official report. Not saying that the graphic is inaccurate in anyway, just that it’s not precise and the offices are closed right now anyway and have been for a few weeks. I don’t doubt that the numbers could be that low, but I only know what I’ve been told.</p>
<p>That sounds like a vague statement written by a staff person who was told, “write something safe for the website.” It’s not based on fact, other than the assumption that “more than 25,000” apps will be coming in.</p>
<p>Brown won’t know the final numbers for another week or so and probably won’t announce anything for a couple of weeks at least. </p>
<p>Since I don’t think the acceptance rate has anything at all to do with the quality of the school or the education, it doesn’t matter to me what the number is. As an interviewer, I hope the numbers don’t increase that much, so we can interview everyone who applies.</p>
What’s the antecedent of “that”? The website’s 25K or the rumored 30K?
That’s to say, percent ahead of last year. Yes, ditto in these parts.
That was my initial thought as well.
But on second thought: (1) The front page of Brown.edu does not go unedited. (2) This is a very on-message administration. (3) If the trend was “headed toward 30K” they’d not have rushed into print with the deflationary “more than 25K.”
And so I ask again, What do we know?
Anyone?</p>
<p>tristan101 is right. The front page has been changed. It now reads “It will take 19 Admissions officers and a staff of more than 20 to process, read, and evaluate the more than 28,000 applications submitted to Brown this year.”</p>
I’ll make the standard technical response to this thin-skinned Brownie: It mattered enough to HIM to log on to CC, read the thread TITLE, read the THREAD, and post his 153rd message to this website (versus my 14 messages). Unplug, kid.
On a serious note, and addressing the grownups again, Brown admissions has made a large new outreach effort this year – as Modestmelody has written – to applicant groups not heretofore approached, and if the result is stasis, well then …</p>
Oops.
So, to take the cynical view (since Brown had very little company in the three-day deadline relaxation), I’m guessing they were (1) very close to 28K on December 31, (2) have had “28K” up on the wall for a year as their 2014 target and magic number (don’t ask), and (3) relaxed the deadline to meet that target (don’t ask).</p>
<p>Brown’s out reach to new applicant groups has already been successful regardless of the raw number of applications they get. From the Brown Daily Herald:</p>
<p>I was asking you why it matters so much to you because I am actually curious what you have to say and by the tone of your post you seemed nothing more than a ■■■■■ attacking modestmelody. </p>
<p>The admission numbers mean little if nothing to me. Who cares how many applied to Princeton or Columbia. What difference would it make if 50,000 students applied or 10,000 students applied? The admission officers will accept those that fit their criterion and besides Brown still is Brown at the end of admissions process. You didn’t even answer my question, so in my view you’re still a stupid ■■■■■ trying to kick up dust.</p>
<p>Of course it would matter. There are simply too many overqualified applicants and not enough room to admit them all. As an RD applicant, the fewer the better for me.</p>
<p>what?! I find it so hard to believe that they will actually have the time to read the entire application by each and every student.
That’s a long time</p>
<p>They read them all: that’s why you pay $80 to have it considered, so that they can pay the staff necessary to go through them all. Although I wouldn’t put it past admissions to merely scan apps that have nothing about them that catches their eye.</p>