<p>This year 2070 students applied to PLME and about 100 will be admitted yielding a matriculated class of 50.</p>
<p>Assuming that many of the applicants to PLME are with top credentials and well put-together applications and hence assuming a higher admission rate of 15% for this pool, about 300 will be admitted to Brown.</p>
<p>The 100 admitted to PLME will come out of this 300 and hence the acceptance reate is really very high : 33%. </p>
<p>1 in 3 are good odds, agree?</p>
<p>I don’t know about how PLME narrows accepted students down exactly because there is no interview. However, for other BA/MD programs, things may be a little different than what they seem.
You would be correct if you were referring to the general college admissions process: 33% is an extremely high admittance rate. However, this is not the general process. This is the interview process. All the things like 2400 SAT or Siemens/Intel or 4.0 GPAs get thrown out the window. Only the interview counts for the final narrowing down of applicants. This makes the 33% admittance rate very low. In our minds, a 33% rate is high for the general process because we are competing with a larger pool of people who don’t have the scores or EC’s to compete with us. When it gets down to interviews, everybody who does one is as equally competitive as you. Or at least that’s what I think.</p>