Accepted!!
deferred
deferred 
accepted
Deferred
Do deferred applicants have better chances in the regular round?
Man I’m so bummed even though I expected a defferal.
Deferred -_-
late post haha but deferred. i’m kinda happy though- if you look at the bright side, it’s pretty freaking cool that an IVY LEAGUE still thinks we’re well-qualified to attend their school 
like? that’s impressive! this isn’t a rejection
FYI, the link below is to an article in the Brown Daily Herald about ED results for the class of 2021:
http://www.browndailyherald.com/2016/12/14/u-accepts-22-percent-early-decision-applicants/
@HB1999 I don’t like to be a pessimist but deferred applicants usually are not admitted in the RD round. I don’t have exact figures for Brown, but I know Harvard is around 2% and MIT is 5% or so. Brown’s deferral rate is awfully high (this year was 60% ish) so I would affirm your interest to Brown but focus more on other applications because you’re more likely to get into an RD school as a regular than a deferred applicant. It’s still possible to be accepted, but don’t hold your breath.
I would suspect deferred acceptance rate is going to be slightly higher than RD - maybe 10-15% as they already sorted through that pile. That said, being one of 26k for 2k seats is a steep hill - I have one of those kids.
Deferred ED applicant acceptance rate in the RD round is slightly higher than the overall acceptance rate for RD.
36% of the admitted applicants in ED were from underrepresented racial minorities, but what % of the total ED applicant pool consisted of such applicants?
Please remember to put your stats on the results page for future applicants:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/1944026-official-brown-class-of-2021-ed-results-only-p2.html
o wtf results came out???"
Does anyone else think that the short essay format (lots of short essays rather than one or two longer ones) is much easier and actually communicates more personality? I honestly had fun writing my MIT and Brown essays, but my Princeton essay, for example, is good, but much less fun to write. Thoughts?
@ManaManaWegi I definitely agree! I’m having sooooo much trouble filling out my Harvard application because there are only TWO essays. 1) Extracurricular activity 2) choose your prompt
@DreamforIvy I’m surprised that the admission committee is able to gather enough information about an applicant to admit them to HARVARD from 2 essays, some numbers, and recs. (maybe an interview, additional information, and supplemental portfolios) I decided not to apply to Harvard because I think the 5 or so reaches I have are better fits.
Good luck!
I got deferred, but also read that while ~20% get accepted (22% this year), ~10% get rejected. So I’m not exactly in that much of a safe space?
@MrUselessCake There is a sort of donut hole of sorts with regard to college affordability. Some families qualify for aid, some can afford to pay in full on their own fairly comfortably, and then there is the group that can neither get need-based aid but cannot self-finance at an institution like Brown.
But we have to be clear about what we mean by middle class in this context. Any member of the “true” middle class will be eligible for generous need-based financial aid. ! I just pulled up an online calculator - there are different ones that produce marginally different results - to calculate where a specific family income falls in the US family income distribution. For example, a total family income of $120,000 puts one at around the 75th percentile. That income will still qualify most families for considerable financial aid at schools like Brown that commit to covering “need.” Yet, that family is not low income and really couldn’t be called “middle class” unless one adds the descriptor “upper middle class,” because that family has an income that exceeds 75% of families in the United States. Of course, this is little solace to those equally deserving high school seniors whose family incomes put them in the donut hole.
I should add that Brown also considers the CSS Profile that includes lots of information, like housing wealth, which can make some families “look” more wealthy than they may feel because they live in parts of the country with super expensive housing and they’ve owned their homes for long enough to have paid off a good chunk of the mortgage.
The biggest concern, to me, is the conundrum of how to deal with college savings accounts. As it stands now, those families who do not save anything for college are rewarded by greater financial aid eligibility. I have a friend whose kids attended expensive private universities and they were full-pay at all of them because the family had saved a ton for college by being very frugal for years. She said that she told her kids that they were the poorest full pay kids at those schools!