Impressive class of 2013 stats

Colleges & Universities Brown University
1

<p>from an e-mail to alumni:</p>

<p>Total Applications:
24,988</p>

<p>Admits:
2,708 </p>

<p>PLME Applications:
1,858</p>

<p>PLME Admits:
97</p>

<p>Brown-RISD Applications:
498</p>

<p>Admitted Brown-RISD Students:
18 </p>

<p>matriculating students include:

  • A professional beekeeper
  • A dual Intel & Siemens semifinalist
  • A representative to the Republican National Convention
  • A presenter for Al Gore’s Climate Project
  • An orangutan trainer
  • A state youth commission member
  • A self-taught Irish fiddler
  • A fundraiser for schools in Cambodia
  • A marine biology textbook editor
  • An award-winning movie actress
  • A founder of a state science competition for elementary students
  • A 4H and Future Farmers of America president
  • A founder of a children’s music outreach program</p>
2

<p>While that’s certainly impressive, just so that this isn’t taken the wrong way - one doesn’t need to have done those things just to get into Brown. They may help if they go along with exceptional academic performance, but I didn’t meet anyone in my year with qualifications anything like this. So don’t think you need to go you and do these things to get accepted. But congratulations to those who have done these things.</p>

3

<p>I’m not going to lie-- I’ve met a lot of people who have qualifications like this-- maybe not to the same extreme, but it seems to me like a lot of people at Brown has something that’s their “hook”, especially those who didn’t come from prep schools or high schools that are Ivy feeders.</p>

4

<p>

</p>

<p>Emma Watson? I heard she was going here…</p>

5

<p>I don’t know what awards she’s won, but if that implies Emma Watson like I think it does, [fist pump].</p>

6

<p>Well, I think she won the Young Artist Award…if that counts?</p>

7

<p>I believe Emma is going to Columbia. There are a bunch of famous people/actors at Brown, it is probably an actor’s son or daughter.</p>

8

<p>Haha, yet another thread that turned into OMGZ EMMA WATSON :D</p>

9

<p>I just got off the phone with Brown admissions, and found out that I’m the only military vet in the '13 class. Add that to the list.</p>

10

<p>Stuckinthesand-- I’m good friends with a junior who’s running the Vet and Vet Supporters group on campus started last semester and also have a vet in my graduate program, in case you need/want some connection to other vets here on campus. You should PM me for an email address if that’s something you’re interested in.</p>

11

<p>Very cool, Stuckinthesand, that’s definitely something they should have included. </p>

<p>I mean, not that self-taught fiddlers aren’t great and all, but I think what you’ve done is more than a tad more impressive.</p>

12

<p>Thanks for the support, Amadeuic. I was being quasi-facetious. There is no buzz word that accurately conveys what I did in the service, and I’m sure ‘military veteran’ would have to be published in every yearly class stat. That being said, I’m off to go train a fiddle playing orangutan.</p>

<p>modestmelody- Thanks for the info, I have been keeping track of Brown’s Student Veterans Organization for some time now, and will try to contact them later this summer.</p>

13

<p>I completely agree with Amadeuic! It should have been added. So, we’ll add it here:</p>

<ul>
<li>A brave US military veteran :)</li>
</ul>

14

<p>It’s official that Emma Watson is going to Brown this fall. The producer of the Harry Potter movies, David Heyman confirmed it recently. It’s in this article. [`Potter</a>’ cast reflects on a childhood at Hogwarts (AP) - Yahoo! Movies](<a href=“http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/potter39-cast-reflects-childhood-hogwarts-ap]`Potter”>http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/potter39-cast-reflects-childhood-hogwarts-ap)</p>

15

<p>lol, army service, come on. Anybody can sign up for that and its statistically more probable that someone will die in a car accident than be killed in Iraq so its no great service. I might as well sign up to be a long range truck driver than be a soldier in the army. </p>

<p>Same odds, same honor. lol, you’re about as honorable as a truck driver.</p>

16

<p>good try, welshy.</p>

17

<p>welshy

</p>

<p>If you truly are a matriculant of the Class of 2013 then I should hope by the time you walk outward from the Van Wickle Gates you will re-visit statements like this with just a bit of mortification.</p>

18

<p>i’d like to hear what you’ve done in your life, welshy. probably, not much. pathetic.</p>

19

<p>I go to stanford, idiot.</p>

20

<p>You’re giving your school a good name.</p>