<p>Does Brown put more weight on one or the other?.. I know this is hard to tell, but has anyone had like a high gpa vs. avg. sat or vice versa… and gotten in… ignoring ec’s and urm, etc.</p>
<p>Just wondering because I heard Brown didn’t care as much about scores as other top schools.</p>
<p>They care about scores, though maybe a 2400 isn't as important to brown as somewhere else. </p>
<p>Even if somebody posts with anecdotal evidence how they had low something or other but got in, we wont know why the decision was made, what the adcom's thought process was, or how exceptional of an admit it was. Look at the 25-75 percentile, the scores are quite high, and if you look somewhere else on the brown admission website, you'll see that chances of admission are far higher if you are in the top 5 (not top 5 percent) of your class. Asking these sort of questions is silly, because nobody other than an adcom can answer. But thats my opinion.</p>
<p>so is the 25-75% range a good indicator of the avg sat score or do certain factors skew the numbers?</p>
<p>For the typical BWK (bright white kid), I've heard you should consider the 75th percentile as the mark you should aim for. That is unless you are an athlete, Intel winner or french horn player!</p>
<p>GPA is definitely more important at Brown, but a high GPA and low SAT doesn't look so great, so obviously you should aim for both.</p>
<p>is a 2140 low for brown combined with a 4.0 UW? I've lost all perspective after I came to this website...</p>
<p>I think that's fine. I don't know much about the new SAT but that means you averaged over 700 on each part, so I wouldn't worry much unless one of your sections was particularly low.</p>
<p>Does Brown only take "complete" SAT scores from one sitting, or do they accept your highest score in each section from different tests? Do any schools accept the sum of the highest scores from each section...or am I just imagining this? :)</p>
<p>Most schools (including Brown, I think) calculate your highest possible score if you took the test multiple times.</p>