<p>When I looked up brown U on collegeboard.com and princeton review.com, it said that brown only considers SATs while they consider Character/Personal Qualities, Secondary School Record, Talent/Ability “Very Important”. Does that mean with REALLY good HS grades ECs, and decent SATs (like low 1300s), Brown is attainable?</p>
<p>For a person with those stats, Brown is practically a safety school. I heard that if you put down an unusual major like Neuroscience, you'll definitely get in because of divursity, or something like that.</p>
<p>Okay... Stop with the overstatements... Are you trying to be funny?</p>
<p>Ignore the collegeboard info, it is totally meaningless.</p>
<p>1) neuroscience is one of the most popular concentrations at brown</p>
<p>2) although sat's are important, brown is definitely attainable no matter what your score is. rarely will the sat close the door--particularly in the context of your background and other achievements</p>
<p>nightlife is on profound amounts of crack.</p>
<p>Agreed. But still, thats a pretty cool way to spell diversity.</p>
<p>this is true</p>
<p>"2) although sat's are important, brown is definitely attainable no matter what your score is. rarely will the sat close the door--particularly in the context of your background and other achievements"</p>
<p>ok, i see, but how does brown only accept 17%? Thats really low for a school that only considers SATs. I am guessing that a lot of the people who apply to brown have excellent ECs/personal traits. How do they weed out all of these people to accept the people that they accept?</p>
<p>Brown only accepts 14%.</p>
<p>ok..... let me rephrase myself:</p>
<p>"2) although sat's are important, brown is definitely attainable no matter what your score is. rarely will the sat close the door--particularly in the context of your background and other achievements"</p>
<p>ok, i see, but how does brown only accept 14%? Thats really low for a school that only considers SATs. I am guessing that a lot of the people who apply to brown have excellent ECs/personal traits. How do they weed out all of these people to accept the people that they accept?</p>
<p>haha. better.</p>
<p>they spend a lot of time on each application. your high school transcript is probably the most important "weed out" factor. how well you do and how much you used the resources available to challenge yourself. your recommendations are also extremely important.</p>
<p>Brown is not attainable no matter what your score is. VERY few people get in with lower than a 1350 and those people are either EXTRODINARY (like more so than the rest of the pack, which is saying a lot) or athletes/legacies. </p>
<p>Sorry guys, but no matter what propaganda (read: bullcrap) they try to feed us, SATs MATTER</p>
<p>"How do they weed out all of these people to accept the people that they accept?"</p>
<p>If I only knew, I'd write a book and make lots of money. </p>
<p>The reality is that no one really knows. Though there are many things you can do to creat a strong applicatoin, a lot of it is a crap shoot, honestly.</p>
<p>If you are worried about how Brown has a low acceptance rate while not considering SATs as much as other schools might-- well, look at the applicant pool. Check the avg SAT. They are not lax.</p>
<p>Here's the thing-- you look at the top schools in the nation and more and more the applications tend to blend together. No one high school transcript is going ot look significantly better or worse than any other. So it is the application parts that can actually separate you from the other 3.8s+, 1400+, etc etc students.</p>
<p>Things like your essay give insight into you as a person and your personality. Brown is out to build a certain student body of intelligent individuals who still have other dimensions to look at. In this way, while excellent grades and tests, etc are practically required, they fall short of getting you into the school itself.</p>
<p>The applicants and accepted students all do well in school. But, it is the other aspects of the application that give potential students the space to distinguish themselves.</p>
<p>good point, i actually see that SATs dont matter once you get to a certain point (1400+).</p>
<p>I don't really understand why anyone takes seriously the princetonreview.com lists of what is considered in the application process. Adcoms are not robots, and they are all different, and thinking that they would all be able to be summed up by a list of what they look for is absurd.</p>
<p>My cousin goes to one of the top schools in Massachusetts, is ranked in the top 3% of her class, has outstanding EC's, and interviewed. However, I believe her SAT was something like 1320. </p>
<p>She applied regular decision to Brown and was wait-listed and didn't get in. My only guess is that her SAT was too low. She did get accepted at Williams, Georgetown, and Cornell. She was wait-listed at Harvard as well.</p>
<p>Also, a friend of mine who went to my high school, which is one of the best in the midwest and is a top 150 school in the country, was accepted at Brown.</p>
<p>His class rank was something like 70 out of 600, he had minimal EC's, didn't interview, but got a 1510 on the SAT. So I'd say the SAT matters.</p>
<p>Fantosme--How was she waitlisted at Harvard with a 1320 SAT? Wow, makes me wish I had applied to Harvard.</p>
<p>The valedictorian at our school who got a 1570 was rejected to Harvard. I really don't understand the admission process.</p>
<p>She applied ED to Harvard. She's also from Massachusetts, so that may have been a factor as well.</p>