Help compare Brown applicants??? Are grades enough??

js416256
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:03:01 +0000

Well I think to assess the chances of the two applicants the way 1MX proposes we would need to know more about their essays, recs, and interviews but I think given the criteria, and the question of the OP (“Are grades enough??”), the answer is no. Brown, like most top colleges, is looking for something special in its students that can’t be defined quantitatively. This is especially why you find many students who are rejected from certain Ivies but accepted to others, ex: I have a friend who was accepted to Harvard but rejected at all the other Ivies she applied to, I have another friend that was accepted to Dartmouth but rejected from Columbia, and I’ve seen a lot of threads like this on CC post-April 1st (most notably a student posting on the Brown forum after April 1 complaining he was accepted to HYP but not Brown, which shows that each college is different and thus is looking for something different).