In at Duke, but waitlisted at Northwestern?

bluedog
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:24:42 +0000

patlees88:

Brown’s selectivity is close to the selectivity of HYPS, more than Northwestern, Duke, UChicago, WashU, Rice. Brown’s acceptance rate is in the low teens. It is really hard to get into (I got rejected from there last year along with all 14 other Brown applicants from my h.s…)



I agree that Brown is a bit more selective than Duke. They also look for different types of people. From my high school (a wealthy, public, 90% white), people would routinely get into Harvard and Yale and rejected from Brown. Brown just hates my high school for some reason…

But if you want to get into Brown, apply as a transfer! It is much much much easier than Duke. I think it’s because transfer students aren’t eligible for financial aid at Brown. I know somebody who got rejected from UMich ugrad, got into Illinois, and waitlisted at Wisconsin, and eventually got in off the waitlist at Wisconsin and enrolled there. Got into Brown by transferring. Also, had a friend at Umich transfer to Brown, and another who was at Vandy get into Brown, but chose Notre Dame over it. These people would have never gotten into Brown directly out of high school…Definitely weird…Duke’s transfer acceptance rate is extremely low, btw.