Official Brown University 2017 RD Results

epowerx · April 17, 2013, 1:20pm

Decision: Accepted

Objective:

[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): R710, W780, M760, Overall 2250 (superscored)
[] ACT: -nil-
[] SAT II: Maths Lv 2 800, Chem 780, Bio 750
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): -nil to both-
[li] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus BC (5), Calculus AB Subscore (5), Biology (5), Chemistry (4), Physics B (5), English Literature and Composition (4) [/li][] IB (place score in parenthesis): -nil-
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Statistics, AP Physics C, AP Spanish, AP French, Robotics, Programming Languages (Ruby and Java component), AP English Language and Composition
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): -nil-
[/ul]

Subjective:

[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Sanskrit Language and Cultural Studies (7 years), Latin Language Studies (5 years), Linguistic Studies (5 years), president of Maths club, Science club, Linguistics and Language studies club (2 years per),
[] Job/Work Experience: Science and maths tutoring to those who could afford it, hospital work, marketing and content for radio station (4 years per)
[] Volunteer/Community service: Science and maths tutoring, fundraising and similar philanthropic activities
[] Summer Activities: Hospital/research centre internships, marketing and content for radio station, Sanskrit studies
[] Essays: visible and minimalistic style, with little to no humour, but were told as stories and very dramatically
[] Teacher Recommendation: waived rights to see, but both knew me very well and have a talent for writing beautiful recommendations.
[] Counselor Rec: waived rights to see, but she didn’t really know any of us too well, so probably bullshat based on our files.
[] Additional Rec: waived rights to see, from supervising doctor at place where I work/intern all the time.
[li] Interview: horrible, the interviewer came late, was slovenly and kept yawning, asked me the same question again and again in different ways (Why Brown; I responded with the same answer in completely different ways using different analogies and metaphors. Interviewer caught on to none of them.) [/li][/ul]

Other:

[ul]
[] School Type: Private
[] Ethnicity: Peninsular-Indian (Asian)
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: did not specify
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nope, too bad.[/li][/ul]

Reflection:

[ul]
[] Strengths: Excellent cultural background hook; work experience really went for me, especially the letter from the doctor I think, because I worked my arse off at hospital; relatively all-over-the-board but dedicated WEs and Summer activities (‘well-rounded’ I suppose?)
[] Weaknesses: horrible interviewer for some reason had it against me; ECs not so well developed, too much culture maybe?; SAT scores, ew;
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I will put it to my extremely strong culture segment, though it may or may not have overwhelmed my readers. I will also put it to my essays, and just say that thank goodness I used all my study halls possible to study up on the art of rhetoric. -_-
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected (Princeton, UPenn, Cornell), Waitlisted (Northwestern, WUSTL, Case Western, Stanford), Accepted (UMich, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, University of Rochester, UIUC, Duke)
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General Comments:: Attending Brown (the great Sanskrit dept. may or may not be a part of this decision). Pleased with the result, if you could call literally running around in circles whooping ‘happy.’ I’m also excited as crap to be rubbing shoulders with all the cooler-than-me people from hereabouts who plan on attending; I’ve always hoped that the coolness would rub off some on me. I’m also a little sad for not having gotten into the PLME, but what the hell, Brown’s a great school all the way anyway.

Utrekt · April 23, 2013, 7:11pm

Decision: Accepted (likely)

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): M 800, CR 800, WR 760
[] ACT: n/a
[] SAT II: M1 760 M2 750 Bio 760
[] Rank (percentile if not available): top 10% in class
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): Mod. Euro. (5), Bio. (5), Chinese (5), US + Physics + BC Calc this year
[] Senior Year Course Load: Heavy

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity XC, XC Skiing, Track, Computer Club (founder)
[] Job/Work Experience: Internship at tech startup over the summer
[] Volunteer/Community service: little to none
[] Summer Activities: internship
[] Essays: pretty strong, imho
[] Teacher Recommendation: alright
[] Counselor Rec: alright
[] Additional Rec: none
[li] Interview: awesome![/li]
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): Massachusetts
[] School Type: prep
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: upper middle class?
[] Intended Major: Computer Science
[li] Hooks: no.[/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: studied abroad junior year, speak another language fluently; self-taught programming; set up meetings with professors when I visited
[] Weaknesses: Have not taken chemistry because studied abroad

[/ul][ b]General Comments:**
I think they accepted me because I’m pretty random. I intend to study computer science, but emphasized that I think communication, writing, and the humanities is vital to anyone’s education. I go to a school with decent sciences, but no engineering / computer science, so I taught myself programming. Also, studied abroad + speak Chinese. I guess I’d say pretty random (maybe?). Hope this helps. Hope it doesn’t sound unhumble (if that’s a word) (Also: I got a likely non-athletic likely letter).

russiantocollege · May 23, 2013, 12:37am

[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted**[/color][/size]
[ b]Objective:**[ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 700 math, 760 reading, 790 writing, 2250 composite (took it twice)
[ *] ACT: math 31, science 32, reading 35, writing 36, composite 34 (took it once)
[ *] SAT II: 730 US history, 790 literature
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): my school only does weighted, so idk mine off the top of my head (weighted: 4.34). i got 5 A- and the rest were A’s, and one B+ in an 8th grade geometry course. so you do the math. clearly i didn’t in 8th grade. (#bitter)
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): my school doesn’t rank. i imagine i was up there.
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 world, 5 us, 5 lang, 5 ab calc subsection, 4 bc calc, 5 psych
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: ap french, ap russian, ap stat, ap comparative&us gov, ap bio, ap lit, theatre arts 4
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): national russian essay contest gold medalist, silver key/publication for poetry in a regional competition, national merit scholarship finalist, ap scholar with distinction, went to us opens for synchronized swimming, various national/state/regional/local theatre awards, my school’s silver level community service award
[ /list]Subjective:[list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): synchronized swimming for 7 years (until end of sophomore year), cappies critic (student theatre program critics, we won best team), lots of theatre (assistant directed award winning show, part of a number of one acts that won locally and went to a national expo), slam poetry/spoken word (aforementioned silver key/publication, went to state level in poetry interpretation forensics competition), historical re-enactment club (i live in northern va so there are lots of historical sites for us to frequent)
[ *] Job/Work Experience: work as a synchro coach every summer, part of a professional improv/acting theatre troupe during the year
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: good amount of community service (i put around 200 hours) (nursing homes, historical re-enactment, paint murals at my old middle school)
[ *] Summer Activities: went to synchro nationals summer after grade 9, us opens summer after grade 10, coach synchro every summer, went to the international thespian festival with a one act from my school summer after grade 11, interned as a translator at a russian business economic journal after grade 11
[ *] Essays: the admissions people really liked them. i was visiting brown for a day on college hill and the guy helping me with my luggage turned out to be a guy who’d read my essay and he recalled the title and everything and told me it was one of the best they’d read that year. but that was my common app essay, i don’t think my supplemental essays were that good.
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: i think they were good, though i doubt my teachers were like hfas;efeir we love her. i think they talked about my being russian, which helped market my ‘diversity.’
[ *] Counselor Rec: he likes me a lot, so it was good, but i don’t know if i was his favorite ever.
[ ] Additional Rec: oprah wrote me this like rly nice rec lol
[ ] Interview: it went well! the woman was very friendly and told me she hoped i was admitted. but again, i don’t know if she thought more highly of me than anybody else, she told me she likes most people she interviews.
[ /list][ b]Other[list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): virginia
[ *] Country (if international applicant): n/a
[ *] School Type: public
[ *] Ethnicity: russian
[ *] Gender: female
[ ] Income Bracket: we received like no aid so they must have thought it was high enough
[ ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): i was born in russia, moved to the US when i was 6, so i’m definitely ethnic, though technically i’m caucasian (though that’s my race, not my ethnicity). nothing other than that… upper middle class white chick.
[ /list][ b]Reflection[list]
[ *] Strengths: my ethnicity, essay, recs, and extracurriculars/community service/jobs. the extracurriculars were all very unique, but i’d done them to an impressive level, and i wrote a good common app essay and chose good teachers for recs and talked to my counselor regularly in previous years so he knew who i was.
[ *] Weaknesses: my sat and act scores could have been higher, especially the math sections. my grades could have been higher too.
[ ] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: my scores and grades were good, my extracurriculars were cool and impressive, and i’m russian.
[ ] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted to university of va, boston college, nyu, northeastern and vcu on full tuition scholarships which made me almost choose northeastern, virginia tech, and gwu on a good scholarship. waitlisted at uchicago and penn (i opted to withdraw from the waitlists, brown was my top choice!), rejected from princeton. but like they’re pretentious anyways lol. (#rlybitter)
[ /list][ b]General Comments: i was definitely shocked to get in, especially because i checked brown last after finding out that i was rejected/waitlisted from my other reaches. i’ve been wanting to go to brown since i was like 14 so i was pretty psyched. my advice specifically for brown is to try to find unique activities not many others would do and go all out for them, and of course have good scores. to put it metaphorically, scores make you heard, and your extracurriculars and essays are what you actually say.

Avalde4 · June 25, 2013, 5:25pm

Results (sorry this is late) I was accepted in march though not off of the waiting list

Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2110
(CR710/W720/M680)
ACT: n/a
SAT II: US history 770 WHist 750 Lit 670
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): my school does it on a 100 scale, but I believe it would be a 4.0. On the 100 scale it was a 99.01
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/542
AP (place score in parenthesis): USH(5), Lang(4),Psych (4) Env. Science (4) WH(3)
IB (place score in parenthesis):n/a
Senior Year Course Load: AP calc bc, AP eng 4, AP macro eco/AP US gov, AP Bio, 2 creative writing courses (required for my magnet program), Latin Word Power and team sports (required pe cred)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): national Hispanic scholar, AP scholar with distinction, silver key in poetry from scholastic alliance for young artists and writers, directors award at regional science fair, school representative at state poetry out loud contest 9th and 12th grade year, Texas high school aerospace scholar (required congresswoman’s nomination), 4 of my poems out of 55 Selected published in city public library anthology out of 2000 entries, poem was chosen to be on the city buses for the month of April 2013 for national poetry month

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): lit mag (co editor-in-chief-12) (contributor 9-11), spoken word and performance poetry events for creative writing department of my magnet program, film appreciation club, north east school of the arts representative forum (senior creative writing class rep), model un, Spanish honor society (historian), animal society (co founder and treasurer), earth club, national honor society, social studies UIL,
Job/Work Experience: waitstaff at a soup/salad buffet, secretary and Internet advertiser for my dads real estate business
Volunteer/Community service: young writer’s camp (team leader for screenwriting group), church group (occasional playwright for skits 9-10), chandler nursing home, miscellaneous book fairs, writing workshops and plays at nearby elementary and middle schools

Summer experiences: young writers camp mentioned above, working for my dad, summer school in order to make room for more AP classes I was interested in, national student leadership conference for theater at Fordham university, Dartmouth bound summer program

Essays: I think my common app essay was absolutely terrible. Some people have liked it, but I think it was kind of pointless and whiny and I don’t like it at all in retrospect but it was about being raised by my half brothers grandparents
Teacher Recommendation: one was probably good and one for sure was very strong
Counselor Rec: not too shabby, we have a nice relationship
Additional Rec: n/a
Interview: n/a
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: English, (also listed interest in poli sci and Env sci)
State (if domestic applicant): TX
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: public, with an arts magnet program
Ethnicity: Hispanic, Mexican
Gender: F
Income Bracket: 15,000 <
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM
Reflection
Strengths: extra curriculars, GPA, sat IIs?, URM
Weaknesses: sat score, essay
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I guess URM status helped me, but hopefully it wasn’t all about that and being versatile and having multiple passions in different fields (but I could be wrong)
General Comments: Brown was my first dream school and it was a huge surprise and honor to be accepted here!

Where else were you accepted/denied/wait listed:
Accepted: Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, Barnard, Northwestern, Iowa state, northern Arizona, ut austin, Fordham, Hofstra, Arizona state, mills, Tulane, Williams (early write), Wesleyan (early write), Wellesley, northeastern, duke (likely with LSRW invite)

risubu · June 30, 2013, 7:08pm

Decision: Accepted PLME

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2330 (800 CR, 750M, 780W)
[] ACT:n/a
[] SAT II: 780 Bio-M, 770 Math II, 640 French without listening
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 99.5 out of 100
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/160
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Biology - 5 (self studied)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis):n/a
[] Senior Year Course Load: Calculus, Advanced Physics, Medical Terminology, English, Government, Anatomy & Physiology, Economics, Hospital Internship
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National merit Finalist, nothing else that is major.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):[/li]Quiz bowl
Founding member of mentoring program for disabled children
Band 
Dance
MUN
Class President of freshman, sophomore, and junior years
School president senior year
Founding member/officer of Women’s Service Club
[] Job/Work Experience: lab assistant at university research facility
[] Volunteer/Community service: Hospital volunteer and whatever I did through women’s service club
[] Summer Activities: Shadowing doctors…
[] Essays:I guess they were good, considering the fact I got in… I did work my butt off to write them for two months.
[] Teacher Recommendation: Bio teacher- 6/10. Wrote very little but sufficient.
History teacher- 10/10.
Club advisor- 9/10.
[] Counselor Rec: Didn’t see the first one, but sent another one after I was deferred, which was spectacular.
[] Additional Rec: n/a
[li] Interview: Ok. Was an engineering/economics graduate, so we didn’t have much in common. Interviewer was also very quiet, and I was being obnoxiously loud because I was so excited. I did dress to impress though. [/li]
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: rural public
[] Ethnicity: Asian
[] Gender: M
[] Income Bracket: less than 100,000, so financial aid was great
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): all the work I did for women?[/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: leader in community; coming from a pretty bad high school, I guess my SAT score was a plus; diverse interests besides biology.
[] Weaknesses: SUBJECT TESTS; no national competitions or recognition.
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Well, I was the deferred ED round, probably because I said I would only attend Brown if I got into PLME. Why I was eventually accepted? Because of the additional materials sent after getting deferred, showing that Brown was still my number one choice.
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: University of Rochester, Northeastern, Union College/Albany medical College, Penn State. Waitlisted: Columbia, Harvard. Rejected: nowhere!

[/ul]General Comments: If you have questions about Brown or PLME, feel free to PM me! I was an applicant who applied ED but got in RD, which is not THAT common. If you would like me to read your essays while applying, I would love to. I know that having different perspectives for your essays can really help.

s13nior · July 6, 2013, 5:14pm

[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Waitlist **[/color][/size]

[ b]Objective:**[list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):2350 superscore (770 R, 780 M, 800 W)
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II:800 Latin, 800 Bio, 790 Math II
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):~3.74 or 3.75
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):n/e
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):school has weird non-ap system
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:hardest in school
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):national merit

[ /list][ b]Subjective:**[list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):newspaper EIC, lit/art mag assistant editor, litmag internship (published), creative writing club president, contributor to a few other school publications, independent research project, tutor, heifer int’l vp, singing
[ *] Job/Work Experience:writing internship and summer research assistant at brown lab
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:lots of tutoring, not too much else besides heifer
[ *] Summer Activities:summer programs in politics, writing, and bio, research internship
[ *] Essays:good imo…writing is my thing
[ *] Teacher Recommendation:awesome!
[ *] Counselor Rec: probably good
[ *] Additional Rec:from research mentor
[ *] Interview:great
[ *] Supplementary Material:nada

[ /list][ b]Other**[list]
[ ] State (if domestic applicant):[] Country (if international applicant):MA
[ *] School Typerivate (super duper competitive, top 10 schools in country, sends 40-50+ to ivies every year)
[ *] Ethnicity:white
[ *] Gender:male
[ *] Income Bracket(mention if FA candidate):n/a
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):not really

[ /list][ b]Reflection**[list]
[ ] Strengths:SAT I +II
[ *] Weaknesses:gpa, but a 3.74 is high for my school
[ ] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:not hipster enough
[ ] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
accepted: MIT (EA… right?), dartmouth, cornell, northwestern, JHU, wustl, rice, tufts, wesleyan, lehigh, emory
waitlist: brown (deferred -->wait list)
reject: columbia, georgetown

whatever…college is way random. I AM GOING TO PENNNNNN!

[ /list][ b]General Comments: ** don’t let the GPA discourage you ppl. every school is different, and colleges know this. standards vary.

jnix88 · July 21, 2013, 7:01pm

Brown is not overrated! Great school and maybe best social life of all the Ivies.

jinguiyuan · November 5, 2013, 7:03am

Hi, congratulation for getting to Brown. May I ask how you demonstrated your genuine interest in the school in application? Through essays?

T26E4 · November 5, 2013, 8:54am

They demonstrated their interest by applying. Brown does not care about the level of interest of the applicant. The purpose of the essays is not to express interest but to convey that you’re an independent thinker.

arwarw · November 5, 2013, 10:03am

Actually Brown (unlike most other highly selective universities) does list the applicant’s level of interest as very important in the admissions decision.

arwarw · November 5, 2013, 10:26am

jinguiyuan, I’m not a Brown student or graduate, but I’d suggest your son just honestly tell Brown why he wants to attend. What appeals to him about the school? Why Brown?

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