Will living in Rhode Island increase my chances? - Page 2

scrivener · 08-17-2009, 06:01 PM

it will really help if you move to california, massachusettes, or new jersey-- trust me

negru · 08-17-2009, 06:19 PM

If it works, how is a minor and temporary inconveniance which might increase your chances from 12% to 13% (ie, a ~10% increase) pathetic?
Considering what useless junk other people do to increase their chances.

Korean_dreamer · 08-17-2009, 06:37 PM

Or Hamilton, Ontario, Canada?

gkrules · 08-17-2009, 06:41 PM

@Korean_dreamer
I was actually born near there.

@GAC1107
No, they didn't move because of that.
They moved because their parents got a job there; they didn't really want to move.

GAC1107 · 08-18-2009, 09:34 PM

@ negru: you don't find that pathetic? College isn't everything. Besides this is undergrad. Not even as important than grad. If you don't find that pathetic I wonder what pathetic things you did... And probably failed

chsowlflax17 · 08-18-2009, 09:56 PM

If RI only has a slightly better chance at getting people in, I'm pretty sure AZ's admit rate was about 16%. So you'd do as well moving out west to a non-California state as to RI. Then again, out here the only people who seem to apply are pretty qualified, cause if they're not qualified they don't even know about Brown. The "well, just in case" school people apply to is Stanford instead.

PickUpSticks · 08-21-2009, 08:27 PM

Unsure.
I'm a Rhode Island resident (rising senior). My school's Valedictorian of last year was rejected from Brown, but admitted to Harvard. This year, a girl in the top 15% of her class got in. The salutatorian of another school in the area was rejected from Brown.
Honestly I think most people I know are afraid to apply to Brown because they're afraid of rejection or if they do get in, they'll be hanging out at the same old places. Because there aren't many.

Slt10T · 11-07-2009, 01:04 AM

Hello, sorry for the somewhat late reply. I am a Rhode Islander who was accepted into Brown, but decided to go to Harvard. My Harvard interviewer told me that Brown has an unofficial policy of accepting at least one student from every accredited high school in RI. At my school, I was accepted and another boy was waitlisted. However, though I decided to attend Harvard, the other boy was not accepted off the waitlist. Further, at least one person from my very average hs has gone to Brown as far back as I can remember. My year was an anomaly, but someone was still accepted.

sententia · 11-07-2009, 11:18 AM

Is MA overrepresented?

Slt: I wish Harvard had a policy like that...

modestmelody · 11-07-2009, 12:16 PM

I've never heard of any policy to accept one kid from each high school in the state. Your Harvard Interviewer would have no addition info about Brown that has to do with our admissions process.

fireandrain · 11-07-2009, 12:22 PM

Geographic breakdowns (by region and by state) can be found on this page: Office of Institutional Research at Brown University. It doesn't show acceptances, but percentages of enrolled students.

I don't know Brown's specific policy for accepting students from RI, but I think admissions does make a special effort to accept RI students.

modestmelody · 11-07-2009, 01:47 PM

There is definitely some preference to RI, but it doesn't seem large.

Slt10T · 11-08-2009, 07:19 PM

Modest: Coming from a small town, my Harvard interviewer knew my Brown interviewer quite well. He (Harvard interviewer) told me that, barring any exceptional circumstances (such as say, only one kids applying from a school with poor grades), Brown made an effort to get someone in from every high school. It was an off-the-cuff remark, of course, and I didn't press him on it, because I didn't want to spend my Harvard interview talking about another school.

I also remember reading in an education magazine a remark from a Brown admissions official that Brown gave "Rhode Island applicants a second look". It's no guarantee, of course, but the fact is you DO have better odds coming from RI than the average applicant.

wolfmanjack · 11-08-2009, 07:54 PM

I don't think that modest disagreed with that statement, but the other one about having one kid from each HS.

modestmelody · 11-08-2009, 08:42 PM

Slt10T, I don't know how interviewing at Harvard works, but interviewing at Brown is open to any alumni and doesn't give you a whole lot of special knowledge or insight into the process. In fact, wolfman and myself are both qualified to be Brown interviewers.

What I am saying is that Brown has no overt policy that's known outside of the admissions department's walls that says anything about accepting one kid per high school in RI. They will tell you that RI applicants definitely have a small advantage.