<p>Our local highschool has a web site that lists by SAT and GPA who got into Brown, waitlisted and rejected. Admittedly, our high schools tends to have above average SATs due to having two “Magnet type” of programs. Click on the following URL</p>
<p>Instructions: Click on guest option to the right. Then click on “college lookup.” Set the state to Rhode Island and click go ,or go to the "B’s " for the college names. Click on Brown or whatever school you are interested in. Once the school comes up, you will see 4 options,one of which is “graph.:” Click on the graph option. It will give you a great idea of where you stand in admissions.</p>
<p>taxguy, can you explain the grading scale? Is it a 4.0 scale with extra points for honors and Ap courses? There are tons of kids with grades over 4.0s at the school.</p>
<p>The grading scale is that if you take an honors or AP course, you get an extra point for A's,B's, and now C's. Our honors and AP courses are MUCH harder than our regular courses. Thus, an A in an honors or AP course would count as a 5 and B would be 4 and a C would be 3 points.</p>
<p>Fids, the stats don't lie. They even list who got waitlisted and rejected. We do have high SATs in our high school and might pay a "penalty" for our high achievement.</p>
<p>My GPA is about 3.78 and my SAT score was 1430. I was accepted.</p>
<p>There is alot more to an application than grades and test scores; plus, they have a very small sample of very similar students (nothing close to a SRS).</p>
<p>We are NOT a small feeder school. WE have over 2000 kids and 17 of them applied to Brown according to the statistics. They publish the results each year, it will be interesting to see what the admit rates are for next year. There are a lot of things that may have affected the rates such as how many qualified kids applied to Brown from our state etc. Brown is popular among our students,but they have had little luck in acceptance.</p>
<p>Small in the sense that the school represents a small proportion of applicants overall.</p>
<p>Because all of the kids are coming from a similar background and are competing against each-other for admission, combined with a very small sample overall, these statistics are useless.</p>
<p>Celebrian25 notes,"And that fact it is a feeder school means its more competetive than say an average school" </p>
<p>Response: You may be correct. I have always suspected that if kids attend magnet schools or top public schools with high average SATS, they generally get screwed in top school admissions. I guess top schools have a quote for each state and don't want to take too many from the same public school. I hate quotas!</p>
<p>I go to a small, private, Catholic school with about 97% of kids going directly to college afterwards -- I have a class of about 220 kids. Two of us applied to Brown (that I know of) and we were both accepted.</p>
<p>Our valie for the senior class got into harvard. Which is a real accomplishment from an average public school that sends no more than 5 a year to elite colleges</p>
<p>Yes, they are, for the most part, much more well off than the average bear. However, so what. If anything, Brown, being a private school, should like this.</p>
<p>As for magnet, they have two internal "magnet types" of programs: Humanities and stars ( which is science and math). Both are as rigorous as any of the county wide magnet programs and kids get a special diploma and special attachment to their transcript as with a county wide magnet program.</p>
<p>i have friends at wootton, in the highest possible classes who complain to me about how their school is too hyped up and not that good.
And also, a significantly larger proportion of the many wootton kids i got to know, are...too rich for their own good. While i've met quite a few great kids, the majority of them have been arrogant and spoiled.</p>
<p>That being said, you cannot expect Wootton to send more kids to Brown than any other good public school.</p>
<p>BullmooseandSqrl: Yes, there are some kids at Wootton that are well off, and there are many kids that are not! Wootton draws from an eclectic population. Churchill, BCC, and Walt Whitman generally have kids from richer families. You may have been confused among these four. </p>
<p>Where Wootton stands out from these four is not in economics. To my knowledge, Wootton has the highest Asian population in Montgomery Country and possibly in Maryland. Whether this factor affects admittance rates is hard to tell. Maybe kids that apply to the ivys from Wootton all want or need scholarships. Private schools, despite what they say about being need blind, generally want a large number of kids that don't need aid.</p>