In advance… I am fully aware of the holistic view Brown likes to use when going through applications but still need to know whether my SAT is good enough for the ED round next year.
Just scored a 2140 on my first try (690 r 740 m 710 w) and wondering if it is high enough to even be actually considered? All other stats are on par IN MY OPINION, and the SAT is probably the one I am most unsure of. Please help!
I have no hooks (ethnicity, first gen, legacy) but both parents are immigrants from Asian countries.
I got into Brown with a 2090 (710 CR 750 M 630 W). The only hook I had was being a first gen student but that only offers a very modest boost. However, my SAT Subject Tests were (790 US Hist 780 Chem 780 Math Lv. 2) so I think that allowed admissions to look past my score. Have you taken your Subject Tests? Honestly, I think the most important aspect of the application is the narrative, which should tie the application together.
I’ve only taken the math 2 so far and have a 760. I’m going to take more though. Idk if I have enough time before the ED deadline bc I’ll only be able to test subject tests and SATS once more.
I’m also interested in schools like Duke (especially Duke - might go ED here instead), Tufts, Cornell, and Uchic, and won’t apply early to any besides U Chicago so I’ll definitely get enough tests in before that.
What would concern me is the CR score below 700. The math and writing are fine. I’d spend this summer reading the New York Times every day, and lots of other books, too, to try to boost that CR score above 700.
Hi my daughter really wants to apply ED , these are her stats so far SAT 2250, 800CR. 700 M, 750
ACT with writing 34, SAT subject tests English 800 , Bio 790 and Math 1 740.
She wants to study Biomedical Engineering . Any thoughts on her chances ? Thank you.
^You should probably start your own thread in the chance me posts. But TBH, no one can reliably tell you because it’s really up to the admissions people in the end, isn’t it? My D was invited to a more personal college information session (just 12 students showed up) and Brown admissions along with other selective colleges presented. At the end, the kids went up to talk to admissions one to one. My D asked Brown if there was an advantage to applying ED. She said “no”. She related that most ED students are athletes and ED is a recruitment tool for them. Pretty discouraging. I don’t know the exact accuracy of this (stats for ED at Brown can be looked up and reflect maybe 26% are athletes). But does make me wonder why she was so discouraging about ED prospects.
I think that there probably isn’t an advantage to applying ED, as those who would be admitted ED, my guess, would most likely get admitted RD. But the statement that ED is mostly athletes appears flat out wrong. Athletes do get ‘likely letters’ to give them the head’s up that they will get in, but I have never heard anyone say that ED is mostly athletes. Just reading the ED threads on CC, with the stats of those admitted ED, suggests this is incorrect. As to chances for PVIMom’s daughter, what you provided is pretty solid. I don’t know about EC’s, EC’s or recommendations, but the stats you posted are solid. If Brown is a first choice and your daughter would definitely go if accepted, it can’t hurt to apply ED. All you lose, depending on their rules, is the opportunity to apply some other school ED.
Brown has about 200 “slots” or preferences available for athletes, total, each year. So that is the maximum number of applications from athletes supported by coaches in the ED round. The rest of the math is easy.
Do you think most recruited athletes apply ED? Somehow I don’t, but that is just a guess. I know that there are threads here which note that recruited athletes get likely letters, but I was under the impression that likely letters are for RD applicants, not ED.
The vast majority of recruited or “supported” athletes apply ED. Here is the major reason:
Likely letters may start to go out: October 1
D1 National Letter of Intent early signing period for applicants offered athletic scholarships (applies to many but not all sports): Usually second week of November
ED/EA Admissions Decisions: Usually mid- December.
An athlete who is considering a D1 athletic scholarship versus an Ivy, needs to know if he/she will be accepted by the Ivy before the early signing period…or that person will be taking a big risk by turning down the D1 scholarship and hoping an acceptance comes from the Ivy.
The football NLI signing period is usually early-February, but again, ED offers certainty over an RD decision that usually arrives at the end of March. (RD with a likely letter in January can ameliorate this situation for football players, but I still think you will find that most apply ED, because who wants to get a call from the coach saying all the available slots were taken by people who applied ED, sorry you waited for RD.)
A poster on this forum, strangely enough, once called me a fraud for always posting up links with actual data, and not stating what I just think or know.
So the post above should satisfy that $#&% about my fraudulence.
Here is a link for others who appreciate facts along with opinion::
The University accepted 20 percent of early decision applicants to the class of 2019, admitting 617 students to the largest early decision class since the program was instated for the class of 2006, wrote Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 in an email to The Herald…Recruited athletes account for 26 percent of the early decision class, marking a small dip from the last admission cycle, when athletes accounted for 28 percent of the class, Miller wrote.