Will Brown accept more than one student from any given high school?

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<p>OK, so I’ve heard from various people that Brown tends to only accept one student from a pool of candidates that all applied from the same school. A few weeks ago, Brown contacted one of my friends who also applied and is now treating him as a recruited swimmer (the swimming coach told him he would do everything he could to get him in). My friend is solidly in the top ten percent of our class and devotes the rest of his time to swimming.</p>

<pre><code>My school is a decent suburban public high school in MA, with a very poor history of getting kids into Ivies and other top schools. If my friend gets in as a recruited athlete does that severely diminish my chances at admission? (Statistically I’m well qualified i.e. top 1% of class, great standardized tests, etc. plus i have over 500 hrs of community service and i’m really big into Model UN, etc.)
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<p>They've accepted more than one student from my (tiny, private) high school before, but never more than two, and sometimes none at all. It really depends on the year.</p>

<p>2000: 1 out of 8
2001: 1/5
2002: 0/8
2003: 2/9
2004: 2/7
2005: 2/12
2006: 0/5</p>

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<p>An average around 4-5 are sent from my school out of a class of around 150. So no that is false</p>

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<p>The short answer is no.</p>

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<p>My school had three, maybe four applicants, and two got in last year. I consider this pretty suprising considering that we are in the UK, and don't really specialise in getting kids into ivies.</p>

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<p>Of course they accept more than one student from a high school in a year. It's not like they have a checklist and they check off a school once one person gets accepted. Last year my school had 4 people who got accepted, two of which now attend.</p>

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<p>8 accepted.</p>

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<p>21 accepted from my school.</p>

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<p>^WOW! That's a lot.</p>

<p>EDIT: I saw that the school is Andover. That explains it.</p>

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<p>21 accepted sleph? damn what school do you go to? stuy?</p>

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<p>Couldn't geographical diversity have something to do with this? For instance, my son's school is in NJ, and typically only one student from a given ivy gets admitted each year. The schools all say, of course, they aren't influenced by the fact that a student has already been accepted from our school, but I too wonder. I think it depends on the school and the location. But just my theory. So, perhaps Brown and other schools would tend to accept more students from the same area/school if this area doesn't typically get a lot of students applying.</p>

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<p>Most of the schools that get multiple admits are in the NE, are often private, or in California. They're schools that typically have high success in getting students into Ivies.</p>

<p>Besides, that, while regional diversity could play a small factor (I am sure it's harder in some areas to stick out versus others), if you look at the admits/whose attending, it's not exactly evenly balanced, so I don't think it's a big factor at all.</p>

<p>The bottom line is you're far more important than any other external person/factor. You sell yourself to Brown and none of those other things have an appreciable effect.</p>

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<p>They often take more than one from each of several small DC area private schools.</p>

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<p>ok modestmelody, that makes sense.</p>

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<p>5 students were accepted from my school and 4 now attend</p>

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<p>I think this is like the 4th thread like this in the last month, use the search feature people.</p>

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<p>If the poster wants to post a thread and others are willing to reply, it is no biggie.</p>

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<p>Two people applied from my school. I think perhaps 5 people have heard of Brown. And I think that is cumulative for the 16 years the school has been around.</p>

<p>So maube my school is a bad example, but we'll see in March or April or whenever they do decisions.</p>

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<p>Usually around 7 kids get accepted from my public high school every year with class sizes usually around 245.</p>

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<p>How many apply to get that number in? I wonder if when you hear of 7 getting in from a particular school if 50 applied. That would be reasonable. At so many other schools there could be perhaps 7 applying so if one got in tha that would be about the same</p>