@sproutedchiapet Wow! You sound incredible too. Good luck!
Great to find other RUE applicants! I just wanted to ask all of you to keep the post updated with any new information. I would like to know if/when people are getting interviews and when decisions are being sent out.
Thanks and good luck to everyone.
@Ray85 Good luck to you too!
thanks 
and good luck to you! @bluepeony
@Ray85 From looking at last year’s thread, Veterans got interviewed but i’m not sure that non-military applicants got them. this waiting is the worstttt
Hey guys! I applied to Brown’s RUE program as well as Columbia GS, Cornell, Loyola Chicago, Princeton, Stanford, University of Michigan (UM), University of Pennsylvania (NOT the LPS program), Williams College, and Yale’s Eli Whitney Program.
Note: I received a rejection letter from Williams College today.
I am 41 years old, married to a 100% service-connected disabled veteran, and have no kids. I work as a VA Caregiver and hold a professional job. I dropped out of high school and got a GED. I attempted to go to college on 4 separate occasions and I did very poorly or dropped out each time. I started back to school 2 years ago and finished my associates degree in December 2018 at a local community college. I graduated magna cum laude (3.868 out of 4.00 GPA) on December 16, 2018.
Also, I did not take the SAT or ACT. As was advised by admission reps at Princeton and Stanford, I wrote a formal request to all schools that required standardized test scores requesting my application be considered in its incomplete status.
Here is a summary of my time at my community college. Sorry this is so long, but I have seen other threads where everything is listed, so I thought I would just put this all out there.
Graduated magna cum laude (3.868 out of 4.00 GPA) on December 16, 2018.
Awards and Scholarships:
2019 Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Semifinalist (finalist selection pending)
2017 David Cobb – Dearborn Outer Drive Kiwanis Club Scholarship recipient
Awarded the “Blue Ribbon of Excellence” for distinction in research at the UM-UROP Summer Symposium
Community College:
Concentration: Sociology; Graduation date: December 16, 2018
Relevant courses: Ethics, Honors Directed Research (2), Honors Great Works, Honors Writing and Research, Logic, Psychology, Sociology, Statistics
Officer: Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, Vice President of Scholarship 2017-18, 2018-19
Member: Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Honors Program 2017-18, 2018-19
Dean’s List: Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018
University of Michigan:
2018 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program-Community College Summer Research Fellowship
Field: Social Sciences; Projects: Prison Letter Project; MOVE Bombing (1985)
Conducted archival research in the Special Collections Research Center at Temple University
Awarded the “Blue Ribbon of Excellence” at the Summer Symposium
2018 Community Engaged Academic Learning (CEAL) Event
Guest Panelist and Program Contributor
Professional Memberships:
American Psychological Association (APA)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC)
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
I also attended the International Convention of Psychological Sciences in Paris in March 2019.
@JellyPeeps Wow! Good luck!
@bluepeony Thank you very much! We will see how it goes!
hey @AndyG130
I’m a veteran that was admitted to Brown through the RUE program last Fall. If you have any questions, I’ll answer them the best that I can.
Hey @sproutedchiapet ,
I was admitted to Brown through the RUE program last year; we had a similar thread an it was immensely helpful, especially when a prior admitted person chimed in. I’m here to pay it forward, and I’ll answer any questions you guys have the best that I can.
As far as the interviews go. Veterans are guaranteed interviews, but this in no way guarantees admission. I remember speaking to a fellow non veteran RUE student that was admitted without having an interview.
So to sum up, to the best of my knowledge(please correct me if i’m wrong), All veterans are offered an interview. All non-veterans are not guaranteed an interview, but it is possible to be accepted without even having an interview, but my guess is that this is a rarity. From my RUE class, everyone that was admitted, had an interview, with the exception of the above mentioned person.
Hello everyone! Fellow RUE applicant here looking for others while the waiting stretches out… how is everyone doing? What majors are we all pursuing?
@randomandwitty Thank you so much for joining!
Questions I can think of:
1.) Do you know how many RUE students were accepted last year?
2.) Did you transfer credits from another institution? If so, roughly what percent of them transferred?
3.) Do you often see or talk with other RUE students?
@RainbowBritey Hi, welcome to the thread! I’m doing well - checking my email multiple times per day, but otherwise coping with the wait, haha. How are you doing?
I’m not 100% sure on my concentration yet. I’m currently an Education (Early Childhood, Special Ed) major at my current school and work in an inclusive preschool. I’m torn between continuing to help individuals with special needs in a classroom setting and helping individuals with special needs in a more clinical setting, either through hospital-based care or research. What major are you pursuing?
@randomandwitty Thank you for jumping on this thread! I’m 31/non-trad and this whole process is so alien to me lol… I didn’t even realize I could qualify for a shot at Ivy Schools until three months before the applications were due 
Can I ask when they started notifying for interviews last year?
Hello again @RainbowBritey I’m going for earth science/environmental studies and i would like to pair it with public policy and/or philosophy. How about you?
Here’s my entire list of stats (i know i gave some insight before, but this captures it all)
31 Non-trad
High School: GPA- 2.3 (Graduated in 2005 had undiagnosed ADHD and traumatic home environment).
College GPA: 4.0
ACT Feb 2019: Composite 33 (Reading 36, Science 36, English 34, STEM 31, Math 26: haven’t taken a math class since 2005 lmao youtube saved me on that one)
First Generation
Low-income/full Pell grant
(parents low income too)
Way underrepresented minority (Romani, aka Gypsy but I hate that word bc it’s all anyone knows).
Essays: 10/10 writing is among my greatest strengths
LORS: 3, all taught me last and this semester, two have PhD’s in their field, the other is also an honors advisor at a University of Michigan.
EC’s: founded an art program for the community at the coffee house i manage (featured in paper). Worked my whole life in mostly restaurant management, went up the ladder in Telecommunications to having a national territory, right before the industry became a giant monopoly and I left.
Traveled a bunch, got featured in syndicated national news for some of my travels in 2008.
I applied to RUE, Eli Whitney, Dartmouth, Harvard and Princeton. TBH my faves are Dartmouth and Brown, but of course i would be grateful for any opportunity. No interviews yet, but a TON of finaid info has been requested from 4/5 schools.
@bluepeony I too am finding my email especially fascinating at the moment - I checked it IN CLASS the other day, so rude! I have been super distracted and am trying to use my week off for spring break to refocus and pull myself together. I am going to Florida and Massachusetts too so those trips will be a fine distraction from the wait.
@sproutedchiapet you and I have shared interests, my focus is public policy, culture, and environment 
I have loved all of the philosophy classes I have taken too, I sometimes wish I could study everything.
@bluepeony 1. I think there were about ten of us, maybe 12. 2. They are very flexible about transferring credits in. They basically let you transfer whatever you want in(as long as it meets their standards), and not transfer classes that you don’t want to transfer in. So, say you got a B in a math class a couple years back and you don’t want it on your transcript, you can transfer everything else in but that B if you want. Also, they give you plenty of time to decide on this. I think the deadline for making transfer credit decisions is like junior year or something. 3. We have our own RUE room, so you’ll see fellow RUE students their studying or hanging out, and i’ll occasionally see a RUE student on the way to class. I’m hoping we get a new RUE student that likes to play call of duty or racquetball or something lol
@sproutedchiapet Interviews happened the last three weeks of April, and everyone had a decision by like the second week of May. I think my phone interview was on April 14th(ish).
@randomandwitty Thanks so much! I thought they took fewer applicants than that for some reason - that’s great.
It’ll be nice to have a community of nontraditonal “older” students. My current school is mostly made up of kids fresh out of high school, and I sometimes feel out of place.
Thanks again!
@randomandwitty thank you for the info!
@RainbowBritey Yesss!! I took philosophy last semester (existentialism) and ethics this semester. I love those classes. What part of Earth/Enviro are you most into? My biggest passion in the subject is meteorology.
Hello @randomandwitty. Do Brown provides a decision over the phone? How did you get your admission decision? I heard from my friend they will mail you a physical letter of acceptance?