<p>is it really not possible to get acceted in especially the RD pool if your sat score is only 2090 is your GPA is a wooping 4.12 weighted and 3.79 unweighted? </p>
<p>Does brown look at the essay more in general and personal qualities of the applicant?</p>
<p>i also had an interview with a brown alumni for an hour and it went extremely well. does brown weighh(look closely) the interview???</p>
<p>Ya… with 16 more days of waiting to go, i’m kinda frustrated and hopeless lol</p>
<p>interview means nothing.</p>
<p>your GPA depends on what classes you took.</p>
<p>and… I did not understand what you meant by your essay question, but I’ll answer what I think you meant: Yes, the essay weighs a lot.</p>
<p>All these threads about gpa are riduclous. Every school grades differently. Some schools grade on a weighted 5.0 scale or higher. Every time a student gets a 90 or higher they translate the grade to a 4.0, and then if the student took an honors course it becomes a 4.5, and it a student took an AP it becomes a 5.0. At another high school in the same state especially if it is a private one, a student could get the same 90 and it gets changed on the official transcript to a weighted 95 or a weighted 100 depending on if it is an honors or AP course. It is ridiculous because two students could have identical grades and graduate from two different schools and one could have a final weighted average of 98 which is still less than a 4.0, and the other could have a weighted average of 5.0. So all these threads about students having low averages because they have a 3.7 or so is ridiculous. Often the student who hast he 3.8 has received higher grades than the one that has close to a 5.0.
The colleges know this. This is why they look at the base grades unweighted that each student received in each class. This is why they are more concerned with whether you took the most rigorous curriculum your school offered and how you did in relation to the other studnets in your school.They care mostly if you took the most rigorous curriculum and in what percent of the class you were in. This is why they also look so much at SAT scores.
A student could go to a school where every semester every year of high school they took only honors and AP courses and only received unweighted A’s based on numerical values, and still graduate with a weighted average of 100 or less which would never be higher than a 4.0. I know of a girl who graduated with a 5.3 from another neighboring school and her base grades were lower than the one who graduated with a weighted 98, where both took all honors and AP coursed</p>
<p>THANK YOU!!!</p>
<p>SOMEONE needed to say that!</p>
<p>I’m hoping Brown doesn’t take SAT scores as seriously as, say, Dartmouth etc… standardized testing tends to go against the education department at Brown, so I’m hoping they’re not as hardcore on them.</p>
<p>2000 isn’t bad, don’t let anyone tell you it is. Just because 90% of the people who post here have like 2300 (lol) don’t let that put a scarf around your eyes… keep in mind, the people who post here are only a small portion of the applicant pool. :)</p>
<p>First, Brown does not consider the writing score yet, so an SAT of 2090 is meaningless – what matters is your CR and Math. </p>
<p>Yes, Brown does care about and look very carefully at SAT scores. But HS transcript and grades are what matter most. Essays are important. And yes, the interview is important. It does not “mean nothing.” But because most applicants have interviews, and most of them have good interviews, a good interview does not mean an acceptance.</p>
<p>Actually, Brown doesn’t do interviews anymore.</p>
<p>They do ALUMNI interviews but they mean nothing, or VERY close to. The alumni send a short questionaire to the college, I believe, but it’s not held in high regard, as there is such a variety of interviewers. In my interview, we didn’t even talk about me, we talked about my school and I asked questions about Brown.</p>
<p>ah yeah AMcGuire13 I agree…in my interview I learned a lot about the math department, Stephen Wolfram, a few professors at Brown (who sound amazing), but nothing about me or about my interviewer. It was actually the coolest interview, because it went from spring weekend and passing out in alumni hall (I think thats what he said), to talks about modeling biological systems…</p>
<p>I am an alumni interviewer, have been for 25+ years, and interviews do matter. If you want to believe they don’t and decline it or don’t take it seriously – sure, go ahead. But a rotten write up, even from an alum, could hurt your application.</p>