<p>If I have a great application, great essays, great freshman gpa, sorta weak highschool gpa (3.2 but with plenty of AP classes, unweighted BTW) but 32 ACT score, I am a low income URM</p>
<p>Should I bother at all applying as a transfer to Brown if the only way I could afford it is if they give full financial aid (or very very close to full) because I have been researching what financial aid is like for the people who had applied to transfer to Brown here at CC and well… it doesn’t give me a good feeling</p>
<p>Actually you have a much better chance of getting financial aid than most transfer students (unless you are a foreign student.) The students who seem to have financial aide affect their chances of getting in, or if getting in then their chance of being able to go due to lack of enough funding, are more likely the mid range financial aide students without a “hook” such as URM or first Gen student. Needing full aid may indicate that you help “diversify” the student body. (and make sure you are calculating that using Brown’s calculator. If for instance your parents had both lost their jobs, but had a very expensive property they owned, you will get very different financial aid perspectives from Fafsa vs Brown.) Now if you are on a generous “+ merit” type of scholarship at your current school, unlikely you will get that at Brown.
Brown has some scholarships such as the Sidney Frank scholars but I don’t know if those students ever drop out, and if so, if Brown ever transfers those awards to transfer students. Interesting question.</p>
<p>Thankyou so much for that response it really makes me feel better. In all honesty I am a senior student in Highschool, I was too nervous about applying this year because, as I mentioned earlier, my 3.2 GPA (which I got because I flopped sophmore year when my mom who is a single parent, had a very sick experience and ended up in the hospital for ~7 months and then came home and had to stay in bed for another 4 months or so, and truth be told, I didn’t do as well as I could have done freshman year) and I didn’t want to hurt my chance of being able to transfer should I have been turned down. </p>
<p>My mom was recently laid off and we are renting an apartment right now so we own no property or money.</p>
<p>I plan on dedicating 100% to my school work (not literally ofcourse, I will enjoy and participate socially, but I won’t slack around school work at all) and make sure I take classes I know I can get good grades in to make the best impression I can. Ofcourse, I might end out enjoying wherever I go, they aren’t bad schools, but I am so in love with Brown that I feel like there isn’t any other school thats right for me (probably me just being naive but whatever).</p>
<p>Thank you so much BrownAlumParent. It makes me feel better knowing that should I get turned down should I choose to apply, it won’t be because of my financial assets (or lack of)</p>
<p>Interesting post…I’m applying w/a FAFSA EFC #0000 for admission as a junior transfer. URM as well, played pro soccer 2 years, then acquired military experience which makes me a non-trad and older than most applicants…I figured I was doomed given my need for full aid. The process should prove interesting and brownalumparent’s post offers some hope as Brown is my top choice.</p>
<p>@mccruz I have a 4.0 through 42 college credits (3.2 HS gpa) so appears we’re coming from similar circumstances.</p>