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modestmelody · 10-31-2006, 07:32 PM

The bottom line is that no one here is qualified to tell you much of anything. You know whether you're one of the most competitive applicants from your high school class or not. If you are, you have a good shot at getting into Brown, if not, you have far less of a shot. It's really that simple. Every post on here that looks at test scores and ECs, etc doesn't really matter. Current students are not adcoms, and even if they were they weren't reading your full application anyway. Prospective students certainly don't have much of a handle as to what it "takes", other than this set of information: http://www.brown.edu/Administration/...ndfigures.html
which is publicly released each year. There may be a more "intensive" numbers report available elsewhere on Brown's page, but if you think this is strictly a numbers game, you're wrong.

So if you're here and nervous about getting in-- good! The admit rate makes Brown University one of the most difficult schools to get into, but chances are, you're not applying unless you know you're a competitive applicant, and that's fairly simple to determine. 90% of what's on here is baseless conjecture-- you appear to have scored well enough and done well enough in HS (not that we have any familiarity as to what Brown's admissions office thinks about your HS and what GPAs should be coming out of there) to be competitive, but that only gives you as good a chance as about 70-80% of the applicant pool! Maybe higher! So good luck, but stop asking about how many extra points you need to score-- if you want to see the breakdown, look at Brown's own numbers on the issue, although it'll only teach you that higher is better overall, but clearly higher scores doesn't guarantee anything.

10-31-2006, 07:32 PM	#1
modestmelody Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: LINY/Providence Gender: Male Threads: 14 Posts: 1,805	So you want to know your chances? The bottom line is that no one here is qualified to tell you much of anything. You know whether you're one of the most competitive applicants from your high school class or not. If you are, you have a good shot at getting into Brown, if not, you have far less of a shot. It's really that simple. Every post on here that looks at test scores and ECs, etc doesn't really matter. Current students are not adcoms, and even if they were they weren't reading your full application anyway. Prospective students certainly don't have much of a handle as to what it "takes", other than this set of information: http://www.brown.edu/Administration/...ndfigures.html which is publicly released each year. There may be a more "intensive" numbers report available elsewhere on Brown's page, but if you think this is strictly a numbers game, you're wrong. So if you're here and nervous about getting in-- good! The admit rate makes Brown University one of the most difficult schools to get into, but chances are, you're not applying unless you know you're a competitive applicant, and that's fairly simple to determine. 90% of what's on here is baseless conjecture-- you appear to have scored well enough and done well enough in HS (not that we have any familiarity as to what Brown's admissions office thinks about your HS and what GPAs should be coming out of there) to be competitive, but that only gives you as good a chance as about 70-80% of the applicant pool! Maybe higher! So good luck, but stop asking about how many extra points you need to score-- if you want to see the breakdown, look at Brown's own numbers on the issue, although it'll only teach you that higher is better overall, but clearly higher scores doesn't guarantee anything.