Is a 28 good enough?

fireandrain
Sun, 15 Dec 2013 09:41:54 +0000

I thought Brown was one of the more holistic admissions processes of the top schools?



They are all holistic. None of them accept solely based on grades and SATs. Calling Brown “more holistic” is really splitting hairs.

Brown accepted 112 students with an ACT score of 28. So clearly a 28 was “good enough” for those 112 students. We don’t know anything else about them. Were they Native Americans from Alaska? Star football players? Daughter of Oscar-winning actress? Dyslexic math whizzes? Brown will not automatically put your application into the reject pile, but you’ve got to be pretty compelling to be accepted. It’s up to you if you want to spend the money on a 9.2% chance. People buy lottery tickets with much worse odds.