@Emsmom1 lextluther96 did mention Georgetown in his list, and Georgetown has less than half the endowment Brown has, Georgetown actually has by far the smallest endowment of top 20 US Universities. I do agree with lexluther96 here in saying that there is no real reason why Brown should be need aware for transfer admissions, when a university like Georgetown that struggles to gather donations and build its endowment manages to be need-blind for transfers.
Just my two cents
I didn’t realize Georgetown had a smaller endowment. My bad.
Yeah, I am currently a freshman there, and applying to transfer to Brown (Georgetown doesn’t have the major I realized I want to study, which surprised me), and the topic of the small endowment here comes up in a surprising amount of conversations haha.
FWIW, applicants in previous years have posted on CC that they applied for significant FA and were accepted.
I want to be clear that I didn’t mean for anything previously said to come off as critical of Brown or their admissions, but were just my thoughts at the time based on the information at hand.
Does anybody know if Brown sends out likely letters for transfer applications, I know they do for high school applicants, but I’ve never seen anything about any sort of likely letter for transfer apps.
I’m sure it’s partially something they do to protect themselves from potential lawsuits, but it’s annoying and disheartening nonetheless. From my experience, kids who came from wealthier families were accepted to more colleges than kids who did not, even if their stats were lower. I actually know quite a well off white kids who didn’t take IB/AP classes, had less than a 3.5, and scored in only like the 75th to 85th percentiles on the SAT and ACT who got into schools like Cornell and Emory. Meanwhile, IB kids from my high school (poorest part of California) who had high ACT/SAT scores (93rd percentile or higher) and 4.0+ GPAs struggled to get into even UCLA. Food for thought.
°quite a few well off…
@lexluther96 yes, most schools are need aware, which means they look at your ability to pay before they accept/reject you. Some are need blind for freshman admissions only and need aware for transfers (or for those on the wait list). What did you mean by “I’m sure it’s partially something they do to protect themselves from potential lawsuits…” What do they do to protect themselves?
@Emsmom1 According to the schools themselves, they’re actually mostly need blind for all applicants. And never mind. My entire point, which I detailed in an earlier post, is that that’s wrong.
@lexluther96 I don’t know anything about Brown’s admissions policies for transfers, but they are need blind for ED and RD admissions for incoming freshmen. If you look at the article in the NY Times that includes extensive data on family income for students at a zillion universities, Brown has lots of students who are very wealthy but also a large percentage who are decidedly NOT wealthy. They also provide very good financial aid. Brown is not any more or less “elite” than other Ivies.
@profdad2021 Brown is need aware for transfers
in my portal it says that my requirement waived for SAT. but in the transfer page on Brown’s website, it says that rarely applicants got accepted if they did not submit their SAT. What should I do?
@madisonj643 I would say that you should send your scores now if they’re within their range, or at least close to it. But if you absolutely bombed the test, don’t. If you’re at a comparable school, or at least at a T30, but you’re not within or close to their score range, I think you’ll be okay if you don’t send them. Technically transfers don’t have to send them, but we’re all going up against a pretty competitive pool and standardized tests are probably the best way to compare students from different schools and backgrounds. However, I did see a transfer from like a T70 with (something like?) a 3.5 and an 1800/2400 get in last year, but that was his third time applying to Brown and he was a D1 athlete. But that’s (kind of) good news for interesting folks with less than stellar academic records!
@lexluther96
Does it matter if I’m majoring in a major that people rarely go to? (Social analysis and research)
Can i say that above 1400 is good to submit and below that’s not?
And 1 more, does brown really gauge their applicants with scores or achievement and involvement taken into account greatly?
If you’re talking about 1400/1600, then absolutely. If 1400/2400, then I’d say you shouldn’t. Their range is something like 2000 – 2310 (2400 scale), and 1410 – 1560 (1600 scale). (See http://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/Brown-University-SAT-scores-GPA)
I don’t think they base transfer admissions on the major, but more so on whether or not the applicant is right for Brown. So major probably doesn’t play a lot into the decision so long as the applicant has completed all of the necessary pre-reqs. At least that’s how Stanford does it.
I’m not sure why the link didn’t show up correctly. The info came from Prep Scholar @madisonj643
now the sat in my brown portal says “test requirement is not fulfilled”. Do any of you guys have the same concern?
Hi, I’m a freshman at SUNY Binghamton trying to go to Brown next year.
I originally only sent in my ACT score (32), and now I’m wondering if it’d be worth it (if it’s possible) to send in my SAT scores.
1390/1400
1980/2400
Math: 710
Reading: 680
Writing: 590
I think my scores are a bit too low so I’m currently holding them off. I’m applying to do computer science if they consider major when looking at test scores and that would matter.
Thanks for any advice! Good luck to everyone, you all probably have better chances at making it than me 
Any veterans on this thread who applied?? I decided to apply through transfer instead of RUE.