<p>I know a lot of schools that recieve lots of applicants don’t count interest among application factors, e.g. Boston College, Stanford. Does Brown?</p>
<p>I am visiting this April, so what should I do to show that I am interested, because I am VERY interested.</p>
<p>Stats: SAT - 1460/2230, ~102/100 GPA, no rank, toughest courseload possible, decent ECs, good writer.</p>
<p>Did you apply for fall 2007 admission, or are you trying to show interest for next year? If your trying to show interest for this year, your decision will arrive before you can visit.</p>
<p>Sorry for not clarifying - I'm a junior who is looking to apply next fall.</p>
<p>I'm also a junior TOTALLY INTERESTED in applying to Brown next fall. I know that showing interests helps with a lot of the liberal arts colleges and Brown is "liberal artsish" but I don't know if they take it into consideration. I really hope they do because it would DEFINITELY help me, lol.</p>
<p>To show interest, you'll visit the campus, take the tour, go to the info session, have an interview, try to sit in on classes, try to schedule an overnight. Try to meet with a few profs in the field(s) you're considering. If a Brown rep visits your HS, you'll go to the info session. In your essay(s), you'll mention what a great fit you are for Brown because . . . . AND, most important, you'll apply ED.</p>
<p>Sit in on classes that interest you. Brown has a list of classes available to prospective students. Email the prof and request permission to attend. Follow up with thank you. Take independent tours of the departments that interest you. Take a Brown student to lunch --without your parents--and ask questions. Email questions to staff. Research the history of Brown, the unique curriculum and the degree programs in DETAIL so that when you have to write "Why Brown?" you will have too much to say! </p>
<p>This is the way to 'visit' all schools, in fact.</p>
<p>Brown does not record who takes the official tour and info session and who does not.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>no matter how much the colleges say that interest doesn't count, IT DOES! I showed way too much interest in Boston College (contacted the guy who was looking at my application) and kept in contact for 3 months. Got in EA with mediocre scores! don't even want to go there! definitely show interest.</p>
<p>yes interst counts at brown. but they wouldnt know if you go for campus tours because they dont take names down. they'll find out through the why brown essay in your app. i think its fairer, not all people can travel to brown, so campus tours are not the best indicator of interests.</p>
<p>Not all people can travel to Brown and if they travel to Brown they often have to combine several schools in one or two days since they dont live nearby which does not leave time for anything other than a tour and information session.
You can show interest in Brown by looking up your regional admission officer and writing to him or her after you apply and introduce yourself, update your application ect. You can either send emails, or you can write a letter or letters to that person addressed to the admissions office. If the letter is addressed to them they will likely get it and read it before they put it in your admissions file. General letters to the admissions office just get put in your file. You can email the regional admission officer as well, but some like to write instead of emailing.Also an email is more informal. A letter will result in something tangible being put in your file.
If you are deferred you should write a letter explaining your disdappointment and how you are still interested in the school to the regiional admission officer and/or the Dean of Admissions.
At most ivy league schools, the Dean of Admissions will not see your application unless you are either a recruited athlete, development admit or legacy. At most ivy league schools an application for someone not in those categories will be read at least twice. Once by the regional admissions officer for your geographic region, and a second time by someone in the regional committee. The regional admission officer will advocate for those in his or her region at the committee</p>
<p>nah, an email is just as good and more convenient for both, the applicant and the adcom. An email will btw result in something tangible to put in your file, too. They send you an email telling you that they have printed your previous email and that it will be put in your application files.</p>
<p>wow, so everything you send them they throw it into your file?</p>
<p>so... if the post office lost my application and sent me back my watered damaged/torn check which was all that was left of my application + I wrote a letter to them explaining what happened + the stuff the post office returned to me as proof, and to put on top of that I did it overnight delivery so it gets there on time... all that stuff can show my interest in the school?</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice everyone!
So I'm going for a tour in April...I think I am gonna try to sit in on a poli-sci class or something like that, maybe write an email to the prof afterwards too.</p>
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<p>well ONS, I don't know whether they throw everything you send them into your file. I suppose they only use the stuff that seems important to them and that could help them to advocate your application... but if you get an email saying that they did put it into your file, you can be sure they did, ^^</p>
<p>i don't mean to take away from the OP, but i have a question about showing interest. b/c i'm from wv (a state only represented by 8 current students at brown), an admissions officer visited a bunch of schools in the state. he put me in touch with a female CS major at the school, so i emailed her various questions about its program. do you think those would be added to my file? i hope so!!! they were somewhat intelligent questions, so i think they'd help.</p>