Official Early Decision Results Thread

[sak09]

yujovi, how did you get those "personally sought out internships", if you don't mind me asking? i have kind of been searching for internships and summer programs in labs and such, but I can't seem to find any that will work. Congrats, by the way.

[larkheart]

Decision: Heartlessly Deferred

Stats:

• SAT: V660M650W740 ... but I didn't send these.
• SAT IIs:USH630 LIT720 ...I didn't send these either.
• GPA: 3.88
• Rank: 4/400
• Other stats: ACT 30

[ b]Subjective:[/b]

• Essays: Frickin Awesome
• Teacher Recs: Didn't see them, but i know they were amazing.
• Counselor Rec: Unique and fantastic (took a sneak peek).
• Hook (if any): I went to Summer@Brown 07! also had a letter of recommendation from a Board of Trustee member.

Location/Person:

• State or Country: Maryland, USA
• School Type: Medium Sized, Uber Competitive, Public.
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: Female

Other Factors: ridiculously good interview and obvious expressed interest in the school.
General Comments: I am not going down without a fight! I'm going to try my hardest from RD... I keep running into Brown alumni and I feel like it's a sign. Brown - I love you. Please love me too?

[natgrace]

Decision: Accepted

Stats:

• SAT: V-790 M-800 W-740
• SAT IIs: Math II-780 Physics (taken freshman year)-730
• GPA: 4.9 weighted, out of 5.33 for all honors classes
• Rank: top decile, that's all our school tells us
• Other stats: ACT - 35

Subjective:

• Essays: Very Brown-ish (displayed intellectual curiosity especially)
• Teacher Recs: excellent
• Counselor Rec: excellent
• Hook (if any): I applied as a female engineer, and I did a semester program in New York City whose ideals are very similar to Brown's. It took a lot of work to convince my school to let me go, and I was the first person from my high school to ever attend this program. I also have done a total of 11 weeks of service work in Guatemala and Uganda.

[ b]Location/Person:[/b]

• State or Country: Illinois
• School Type: large, very competitive public
• Ethnicity: white
• Gender: female

[ b]Other Factors: [/b]
General Comments: I AM SO HAPPY!

[ohmancollege!]

Decision: ACCEPTED TO PLME

Stats:

• SAT: 2320; 760CR 800M 760V
• SAT IIs: Literature800 Biology/M780 MathIIc750
• GPA: 3.8 unweighted
• Rank: N/A
• Other stats: Took a pretty rough courseload, did alright (A's and B+'s)

Subjective:

• Essays: Pretty honest about me - one was about my fears, other two about medicine (duh)... wrote them over the course of October
• Teacher Recs: I wasn't expecting it, but one told me yesterday it was a "best in career" style deal; the other must've been pretty good I guess!
• Counselor Rec: I guess it worked?
• Hook (if any): I have a lot of leadership within my school, clubs, etc. I don't think that counts as a "hook" though...

Location/Person:

• State or Country: NJ
• School Type: Public magnet
• Ethnicity: Latino
• Gender: Male

Other Factors: Pretty good ecs, submitted on Nov. 1st (I thought they'd hate that haha)
General Comments: I've been on a constant high for the past few days. Best Christmas gift ever!

[yujovi]

sak09, for the pediatrician and allergist, I literally just walked into a local medical center and asked every small clinic there that I could to get something. That building had at least 30 different groups in it, and the pediatrician was the only person who agreed. The allergist only allowed me to do a one-day shadow, which, in the end, turned out to be pretty useless since I just sat in the office the whole time while he went to do his work...
With the hematology lab, I volunteered at the local hospital initially, and then asked around there, and eventually found out that there was an application process for internships, but they only take less then 5 out of a typical applicant pool of 75-100 people. But the fact that I was already volunteering counted for something, along with the rest of my application, so i ended up getting a position, and I chose to work in the hematology lab.

[ohmancollege!]

Wow congrats to everyone! Good luck to the Defered/Rejected pool - hopefully everyone will end up at the right place for them!

[rappasani]

wow so many ppl got deferred

[Shaunfld]

SAT: 1900 Verbal:580, Math:680, Reading: 640
SAT II's: Bio: 610, Math: 640
ACT: 29
Rank 17/60
GPA: 3.8
AP: Bio:3
Stats:All Honors and AP's

Essays: Very good to excellent
Teacher Recs: Don't know
College Advisor Rec: hmmmm don't know.
Hook: Cancer Survivor who hasn't let it affect me.

State: NJ
School: Private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male

Other Factors: Cancer Survivor, so hopefully that means something.
Comments: I want to go to Brown, and if not Brown then Wesleyan.

[mkt16a17]

there's a deferred facebook group. yall should join.

[mamafoxof3]

My D was: ACCEPTED

Stats:
•SAT: 2100 740 CR / 620 M / 740 W
•SAT IIs: Lit 730, US History 650, Spanish 470 (yea, I told her not to take that one)
•GPA: 4.0 / 4.085
•Rank: 7/224
•Other stats: US History – 5 without taking an AP class (school didn’t offer AP classes until this year). Has never had anything but an A on a report card since, well, ever.

Subjective:
•Essays: Brilliant. Showed how she’s had to deal with drastic changes in her living situations in the past and how they prepared her to move half way across the country to attend college.
•Teacher Recs: The one I saw was excellent, had three other teachers fighting to write letters.
•Counselor Rec: Not so much. New counselor to the district did not know my daughter at all, and was not comfortable writing a letter, so instead we submitted extra teacher recs.
•Hook (if any): First generation college, coming from a small rural yet highly competitive school. Well rounded EC’s, but not too much that she didn’t have time to be a kid. Brown was her one and only Ivy choice. The others just didn't match her personality.

Location/Person:
•State or Country: Kansas
•School Type: Public
•Ethnicity: ¼ Hispanic/ ¾ caucasion
•Gender: female

Other Factors: Dark and twisted sense of humor, she’s referred to by friends and family as the Gothic Cheerleader.
General Comments: Now mom just has to figure out how to pay for this.

[dredre]

Hey, new to this whole thing...

But i was deferred and have been looking for any stats that may tell how many people PLME accepts ED. I think I read somewhere that the entire class of 2012 will be roughly 60 people. If that's true, any idea whether they choose like 20/60 during ED or more like 50/60 ED, in which case us deferred would be screwed with competition...

[Shaunfld]

they accepted 26 out of 379 applicants......they accepted 317 out of 1790 ED applicants in total....PLME accepts 60 total this year.

[franglish]

Shaun, I wonder where you got your numbers. The following is quoted from the Brown Daily Herald which was posted to the web on Dec. 13. It doesn't mention PLME, but it does state the ED numbers and they are different from what you say above:

"It's still hard to get into Brown. But it's still a little easier to do it through early decision. On Thursday the University sent good news to 555 of its 2,461 early decision applicants to the Class of 2012, accepting 22.6 percent."

[dredre]

thanks Shaun! ..

wow...I read somewhere else that PLME had a roughly 13% rejection rate...meaning that leaves about 300 PLME applicants deferred and competing for the remaining 34 spots, assuming all 26 people who got accepted decide to stay and the other deferred decide to stick it with Brown and PLME... crazy

[emyo135]

Decision: Deferred

Stats:
ACT: 30
SAT: Math 670 Writing 680 Reading 770
SAT II US History 690 Math I 690 Literature 770
GPA: 4.0/4.0 unweighted
Rank: 1/189
Subjective:
Essays: I was in love with my personal one, the why brown one not amazing
Teacher Recs: 1 awesome, the other unknown...
Counselor Rec: what screwed me.
Hook (if any): I have none actually.
Location/Person:
State or Country: WA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White/Chinese
Gender: Female