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Old 07-17-2011, 03:16 PM   #1
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Wegotin.com (BROWN)

There is this website where you can buy accepted students college applications from different schools, such as Brown, Columbia, Yale, etc. I was interested to buy the Brown ones (I'll be applying E.D. this fall). I just wanted to check and see if this was a reliable website and if I should really spend my money on these applications. Has anyone ever used this service? Thanks!
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Old 07-17-2011, 04:34 PM   #2
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Fascinating, you're actually a real person and not a spambot.

Anyway, buying applications is going to be completely useless for you, and will almost certainly lead you to read too much into the couple of data points that you get. At best, you'll just get something that is a mediocre version of a book of accepted student essays. Save your money.
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Old 07-17-2011, 06:50 PM   #3
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That sounds like a complete waste of money. Reading about how someone else got in will only inspire you to copy their essays. Tell Brown why YOU should be accepted.
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Old 07-17-2011, 09:21 PM   #4
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Thanks! Yeah, I thought about that too!
Thank you again.
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Old 07-17-2011, 11:22 PM   #5
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Also, you're likely to get weird data points: which students are the ones who will sell their applications, so that people who can afford it can buy them? I don't think students like this would be considered your typical Brown student.
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Old 07-13-2012, 10:19 AM   #6
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My nephew purchased the applications when he was applying last year and I too looked at many of them. Both he and I felt seeing them was very useful. They were clearly not a statistically valid sample of accepted applicants, but virtually all of the applications made the applicant jump to life from the page - it was easy to get a sense of them as a person. Both of us thought seeing how that was done and how important it was to the admissions process was well worth the price of the service. And, yes, he felt it helped him to get into his first choice school - Yale.
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