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12-13-2007, 04:44 PM
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#331 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
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| I don't think so. It probably means you realized that the likelihood of admission was still low, despite how awesome of a candidate you likely are. Expecting a deferral/rejection makes this process much, much easier. | 
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12-13-2007, 04:52 PM
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#332 | | New Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Threads: 3
Posts: 26
| I was accepted | |
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12-13-2007, 04:59 PM
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#333 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Meh.
Threads: 34
Posts: 495
| Would you guys mind posting your stats? Thanks! | |
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12-13-2007, 05:18 PM
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#334 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Threads: 24
Posts: 87
| I agree that expecting a deferral/rejection makes it so much easier | |
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12-13-2007, 05:21 PM
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#335 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Threads: 32
Posts: 160
| I got accepted! This is the best birthday ever!!! I'll post stats later. | |
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12-13-2007, 05:21 PM
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#336 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Area, TX Gender: Male
Threads: 1
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| Decision: Deferred Stats:- ACT: 30
- GPA: 5.7188 W/ 3.97 UW
- Rank: 1/345
Subjective:- Essays: ...good?
- Teacher Recs: ...good? I could not read them.
- Counselor Rec: I only wish I knew!
- Hook (if any): Attended Brown Summer Program
Location/Person:- State or Country: TX
- School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: White
- Gender: Male
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12-13-2007, 05:24 PM
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#337 | | New Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Threads: 3
Posts: 26
| SAT I: 800V, 760M, 770W
SATII: 740 Math I, 720 Chemistry, 800 Math II
AP US 5, AP Euro 5, AP English Language and Composition 5,
GPA:4.21 something/ish??
rank: 2/426
I come from a pretty crappy public high school, but I take courses through Johns Hopkin's center for talented youth (cty=<3) in the summertime, and i am a nerd and i love it.
I'm also a women rugby player,
I play the flute and am an avid art student,
umm, letsee,
Essay: random, it followed my thought process,
Teacher Recomendations: pretty damn excellent, | |
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12-13-2007, 05:28 PM
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#338 | | Member
Join Date: May 2007 Location: MIA, FLA
Threads: 1
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| Deferred. This is pretty awful. | |
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12-13-2007, 05:30 PM
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#339 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Threads: 47
Posts: 1,000
| Aw. I was really sure you'd get accepted, daveb. | |
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12-13-2007, 05:31 PM
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#340 | | New Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Threads: 2
Posts: 8
| deferred. i'm pretty cool with it though. just have to hop on those other applications. its a little bit of a confidence killer going into the RD round.
more than anything i'm just kind of ****ed that i have to do all these applications now and wait until fricking april. | |
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12-13-2007, 05:32 PM
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#341 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Threads: 8
Posts: 43
| deferred. this is really ridiculous that so many people got deferred. i think there are a total of 4 or 5 CCers who were accepted, but congrats to those who will be at brown next year! i like to think that i didn't get accepted cuz it wasn't meant to be. Maybe i will be much happier somewhere else closer to home or something. | |
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12-13-2007, 05:35 PM
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#342 | | New Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
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| deferred. life sucks. | |
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12-13-2007, 05:40 PM
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#343 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Threads: 2
Posts: 82
| Some of these comments are cross-posted on another thread, but to the Brown University acceptances I send kudos and congratulations. To the deferred I say the following....
I am known to all my friends as a glass-half-full kind of gal, but I want to interject some reality here. I have watched the admissions process over the past three years and tried to find statistics that shed light on the quandry of an ED deferral. My bottom line: schools don't report these numbers.
Yes, there are individuals who were deferred and then admitted, but certainly over the past few years I think these applicants represent the exception not the rule.
If you receive an ED deferral, my advice to you is think long and hard about the school. IT IS THE SCHOOL'S LOSS THAT THEY HAVE PLACED YOU IN THE DEFERRED CATEGORY. Check out other options. Talk to teachers and counselors who know you best. Find a school that wants you rather than chasing a school that based on the data/odds will probably reject you this spring. | |
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12-13-2007, 05:40 PM
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#344 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Threads: 20
Posts: 295
| I cannot believe all these deferrals. I posted on the parents' forum telling them to check the Brown ED results - this is like a blood bath.
Everyone here has amazing achievements. Please keep up your excellent work and don't let this deferral or rejection define you. | |
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12-13-2007, 05:52 PM
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#345 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Threads: 11
Posts: 342
| I'm not even the parent of an ED applicant (an RD applicant, however) and this thread makes me feel so sad! Seriously, all of you have impressed me with your energy and your accomplishments and I wish you well. I would love to say it was easier in the olden days (70s) when I applied to school but I still feel the sting of Swarthmore rejecting me. For years I have told the story about how the alumna who interviewed me said at the end of our conversation, "Well, haven't you done ANYthing interesting, like unicycling?" Since then, whenever I see a unicycle, I kick the tire. But I went somewhere else, had a wonderful experience, went to grad school in something completely different, and now do something I never dreamed of when I was 18. And I can't imagine having done it any other way, so look forward and enjoy the opportunities that you have ahead of you. Maybe Brown, maybe not, but whatever it is, you will make the best of it. You are all so much more aware of the world, school today is so much more intense and the opportunities are just mind boggling. It's a great time to be a senior in high school. | |
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