<p>I’m picking colleges to apply to this autumn; I’d be grateful if you could tell me about Brown, as I’m considering applying there.</p>
<p>I intend to major in math/business, probably a finance-oriented course.</p>
<p>Also, I’m an international.</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>Brown pawneth in applied math.</p>
<p>Wait, why shouldn’t you apply to Brown? ;)</p>
<p>I imagine you’ll get very different answers after 5 PM EST tomorrow…</p>
<p>Do you need financial aid?</p>
<p>@fireandrain: Yes.</p>
<p>And I presume the results are coming out tomorrow? Thanks for telling me, I love reading the decisions threads :)</p>
<p>python, Brown is need aware for financial aid for internationals. As are most US colleges and universities. International students who need financial aid are finding acceptances to be few and far between this year – many are getting no acceptances at all, no matter how strong a student they are. </p>
<p>I strongly recommend that you look very closely at colleges’ financial aid policy towards internationals before settling on any schools. You want to focus on schools that are either need blind for internationals or give substantial merit money to internationals. I think it’s OK to have a few other schools like Brown on your list, but not too many.</p>
<p>Thanks ^^. I looked it up on Wikipedia, and I already have all the schools which are need-blind towards internationals on my list (Dartmouth College, Harvard University, MIT, Princeton University, Williams College, Yale University, and Amherst College, right?)</p>
<p>^ You forgot Middlebury</p>
<p>Oh yeah, that’s on my list as well. It’s a pretty college, lol :).</p>
<p>I don’t mean to be sore, but I seriously don’t think all those colleges from this need-blind for intls list are really need-blind. Not now. I mean nobody wan’t to go broke. But hopefully the economic situation will be more or less stabe next year. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks ^^. And, well, that may be the case, but if so, there’s not much I can do about it, is there? We can only try. And hope.</p>
<p>Hope is what the whole process runs on :)</p>
<p>Absolutely. Semper fi. >>></p>
<p>^(As you can probably tell, that’s my favourite quote, lol)</p>
<p>You always remain faithful to it :)</p>
<p>Well, I guess that can be interpreted lots of different ways, unlike something like “mea culpa” or “semper eadem”. But, to me, it means being faithful to myself. Basically, that means that when that Harvard rejection letter comes through the mail, I won’t start beating my head against the wall.</p>
<p>(j/k)</p>
<p>Lol, I definitely don’t take you for an obsessive over-achiever</p>
<p>Well… I used to get really upset whenever I got a B or something (I got 49% on an exam once, lol), but now I just take it in my stride. The downside of this is that sometimes I worry that I might not want an acceptance as badly as the other candidates do, which means that I won’t work as hard. I always wonder if there’s someone out there who’s going to do better than me just because they’re crazy about getting accepted. You know the type, lol - the sort whose parents have made them do 10 AP classes, or who have devoted 5 hours a day to Math Olympiad questions :P.</p>
<p>Haha I’m so glad I don’t have parents like that. My parents just let me do my own thing - their policy of non-interference with academic/extracurricular/any matters, for that matter, has worked out really well.</p>
<p>I sometimes feel I don’t deserve to get the really good marks that I do get, because I put in much less effort than most other kids (I just stay attentive in class). Haha…guilty conscience for slacking off much? :D</p>