<p>Obviously more people are going to be applying to Brown now.
Before I knew anything about where she was going, my dream school was Brown.
But, I started a Harry Potter Club at my high school… will it look like I just want to go to Brown to get closer to the Harry Potter celebrity? I’m applying ED.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/746264-emma-watson-going-brown-applications-skyrocketing-anyone-agree.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/746264-emma-watson-going-brown-applications-skyrocketing-anyone-agree.html</a></p>
<p>^This seems to dispute your first statement.</p>
<p>EVERYONE loves Harry Potter. If you start gushing about how much you love Emma Watson in your essay, that might make a difference.</p>
<p>you could just… not mention it</p>
<p>If anything there might be a small surge of less qualified students applying to Brown.</p>
<p>Totally not blown out of proportion…</p>
<p>i just wouldnt mention it. you dont want to look like an absessive freakshow</p>
<p>whoa. obsessive***</p>
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<p>Allow me to paraphrase: “Obviously more academically unqualified Harry Potter fans will be applying to Brown, resulting in a lower numerical acceptance rate that has absolutely no bearing on whether I personally am accepted, since the standard of acceptance will be unaltered by this new set of inferior applicants wanting to stalk Emma Watson night and day.”</p>
<p>So, no.</p>
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Dyou know what’s hilarious? The OP seems to imply that had Emma Watson not chosen Brown, his founding of a Harry Potter club might actually have some sort of legitimacy or merit. lol</p>
<p>Well, I think his chance will be higher if he found a nuclear physic or Jane Austin Club. :)</p>
<p>James Joyce club, FTW.</p>
<p>That would be ■■■■■■■■ to just apply to a school because of a celeb. Like think about it…what are the chances that the celeb will want to interact with you anyway? (I mean ‘you’ in a general sense)</p>