<p>Ugh, mum, thanks for ruining my day. At least they said they don't know how this will affect applicant yield...</p>
<p>it would be great if some of the decisions were online before December 15th!!! How likely do you think that is? My patience is waning - scratch that - it's totally gone. I WANT TO KNOW!!!</p>
<p>It's possible, but certainly not before the week of the 15th.</p>
<p>According to the article, Brown only rejects 12% of its ED applicants....I would feel horrible being rejected to begin with, but knowing that 88% of the other applicants are in or are given a second chance really makes me feel uneasy. It makes the rejection hurt 100,000 times more!</p>
<p>daveb,
Sorry! I didn't mean to ruin your day. You are a strong applicant and I wish you all the best in the admissions process. A number of my daughter's classmates were not admitted to Brown ED last year (and several of these were then rejected RD) but they ended up at schools that they love (e.g., Yale, Penn/Wharton, Princeton, etc.). Things usually work out. I think Brown tries very hard to choose people who can independently embrace the opportunities provided and who will thrive in the Brown environment. </p>
<p>Good luck! Try to occupy yourself for the next month - decisions will be out before you know it.</p>
<p>At least when you are rejected, you don't have to go through this all over again. Hopefully you aren't as attached to the other schools you are considering as you are to Brown.</p>
<p>I don't think I get what you are trying to say daveb...??</p>
<p>acceptance rate for early decision to brown is only 22.7%-the most selective ivy league school in terms of early decision! but then again only 12.7% get rejected, leaving about 64% to be deferred. hahaha wowwww, i think i may in that 13% who are rejected. if not, i'll be deferred for sure.</p>
<p>With deferral, you go through this waiting process all over again with Brown, which, since you applied ED, was obviously your first choice. So take all of the anxiety and fear you have right now, and go through it again, but this time for four months instead of one and a half. Doesn't sound like fun, especially if, come April, you get rejected after all is said and done.</p>
<p>At least with rejection, you are done waiting. You aren't into college yet (unless you applied rolling somewhere), but you can approach April with a little more ease, because, presumably, you won't be as attached to the schools you applied to as you were to Brown. So hopefully you'll be able to sleep a little easier.</p>
<p>That being said, I don't mean that rejection is better than deferral. Obviously if you are deferred ED and get in RD it's worth every second of the wait. But if not... I think I'd rather them tell me outright that I'm not getting in rather than stressing another four months over it and then get rejected.</p>
<p>Now I get it! =)</p>
<p>It makes perfect sense. Hopefully if I am deferred, I will realize that acceptance into the school will be damn near impossible through RD and I will focus on other schools. I will still work hard, but realize that if ED didn't work, I wasn't meant to be there</p>
<p>(I really wish I could get myself to believe that. I believe in the whole "everything happens for a reason" but I am having a hard time embracing it!)</p>
<p>Anyone have some bad luck lately with their Brown-related stuff? When I visited Brown on November 3rd (which my father and I had scheduled earlier), a hurricane decided to show up. Now, the day after my interview for Brown, I found that I have pink eye.</p>
<p>But hey, I had the flu when I took the SATs, and things went well.. so I dunno.</p>
<p>I missed the deadline for the Nov SAT's</p>
<p>I put my birthday for the ED agreement date</p>
<p>But daveb, if you're a lot less attached to all your other schools than to Brown, that kind of means you won't LOVE the place you end up going to... because it's not Brown.</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know the rate of RD acceptance for those who were deferred ED?</p>
<p>Thank you Kristina! For asking the ED, RD question! I was wondering the exact same thing but the thing is that the ED applicants that get in through the RD pool are put into the stats for RD applicants accepted so there is no way to tell what % of ED students are admitted after deferral. I am guessing it is very low b/c about 3/4ths of the ED applicants are deferred and there is no way that even 20% of them will become students at the school.</p>
<p>And yeah, I have to agree with Kristina too, daveb: ED applicants are most likely in love if not "hooked" to the school that they applied early to. Because I know I am not a strong applicant, I am gradually making my peace with it, but I will never feel the same way about another school the way I feel about Brown. </p>
<p>Guidance counselor says different and claims that once you are in a school that you may only like, eventually you won't be able to imagine yourself anywhere else....still want Brown though. </p>
<p>I think we should all just take our own advice when it comes to this issue because we are all pretty vulnerable now....will the school of our dreams accept us, or leave us in the dust? =(</p>
<p>ok guys... i have my interview this afternoon. i'm obsessed with brown... and i'm DYING to get in. if i post my stats will you guys let me know what you think my chances are?</p>
<p>SAT: 2320: 760 CR, 760 M, 800 W
SAT II: 710 MathI, 770 Bio-M
GPA: UW= 3.88 (before senior year) W=4.56
RANK: my school doesn't rank
APs: AP Gov-3, AP AB Calc-5, AP Eng Lang- 5, AP Bio- 4, AP World Hist-4
Extra Curric: Regional Board member for North American Federation of Temple Youth, Ex-president of temple youth group, VP of school's future doctor's of america club, ex-peer counseling prez, currently on peer mediation executive commitee, hired as a private tutor for about 5 hrs. a week, national honors society, school newspaper section editor, senior class planning member (like the class version of SGA, senior class planning also organizes lots of school events)</p>
<p>Other: I spent 3 weeks doing the summer@brown program this past summer, have visited campus about 3 other times. I am also a national merit scholar semi-finalist, waiting to hear about finalist status, AP scholar with honors... and a few other things</p>
<p>What do you guys think? I applied ED to both the PLME and the regular school... I'm hoping to at least get into the regular school-- who wants to guess my odds for the regular school and my odds for the PLME?</p>
<p>Ok...admittance into the Ivy League is really based on luck. Hate to say it, but its true. All you can do is try your best to keep your average and SAT scores high, which you did and devote your time to EC's which you have done. Everything else is really out of your control. None of us can predict your chances. We are all in the same boat with ED admissions. If you ask me though, you seem to be a good candidate but that is really all someone can say. I wish you the best of luck in your interview...I went for PLME and ED as well!</p>
<p>lauren, no one on here is on the admissions board. No one knows. </p>
<p>Kristina (and crzy), you may not be happy about wherever you wind up instead of Brown, but it's more than likely that you find your niche wherever you go in terms of friends, extra-currics, and majors. A big part of that will be admitting to yourself that there may have been a reason for your denied entrance to Brown, and while you may not be at your first-choice school, you are probably at a fine institution (if you are a solid candidate for Brown, you will wind up at a great school anyway), and you just need to keep your head up.</p>
<p>If you go somewhere and you are absolutely miserable, that may be your own fault for not preparing for the huge possibility of not getting into Brown and therefore not looking at schools you would still enjoy yourself at. In which case, you have only yourself to blame for making such a huge error in your college search.</p>
<p>daveb, I think you sort of just repeated what I said in my post. On this thread, we all have one thing in common: our love for the university. Despite having the knowledge that Ivy League admissions is based on luck, many people will hang on to one school and realize that their life is over if they don't get into this school. I know, b/c I used to be one of them. And then after really looking at my stats, I asked myself what reason the admissions board would have for accepting me over someone else, and I couldn't think of anything...but I have always been a pessimist. </p>
<p>When you are an ED applicant, its harder to admit that you will be happy at another school, because you like your ED school that much. But as much as the rejection letter will hurt, I know that there is another school out there where I will be happy, even though it may take me time to realize it, and I think that it goes for everyone else on this thread. For those who get into Brown, Congrats! But for those who don't, we all have at least decent stats otherwise we wouldn't be applying ED to Brown, so there are other great schools on our lists where we will get accepted and subsequently we will have a great 4 years!</p>
<p>If not, and you are miserable for whatever reason, stick it out a year, get a 4.0 and try to transfer. There are always options...again, I think we all just need to take our own advice...I know that I am really trying to do so =)</p>
<p>You seem to not actually believe that, though, since you agreed with Kristina.</p>
<p>Never said I totally agreed with it. I said that I was working on it. The advice makes sense, otherwise you would have every top student who didn't get into their top choice school being miserable and I know that is not the case. </p>
<p>Trying to get myself to believe in it is what I am concerned with now. I always figured if people work so hard to attain good grades and commit their time to EC's when they could be doing something else deserve to get into their top school. Since that is not always the case, nothing to do but to accept it and try for other great schools, even if it wasn't your favorite but you like enough to attend =)</p>