<p>I am an upper-middle class and I am applying ED to Brown. I am not applying for institutional financial aid. this girl in my grade has applied to Brown as part of Questbridge. </p>
<p>I dont really know how well she does academically or her extracurriculars because she is very quiet. She is mot URM unless Indian subcontinent is considered urm,.</p>
<p>I am the rank 1 student currently and am doing political work right now (i intend to major in public policy).</p>
<p>Will this girl lessen my chances at being accepted to brown. Or would it not be affected at all?</p>
<p>Btw our school normally only sends 1 kid to brown a year.</p>
<p>No. Brown does not have a quota on how many kids come from a given school. You will be competing with about 28,000 students from across the world. That’s the underlying problem.</p>
<p>Brown does not have a quota on how many kids come from a given school. You will be competing with about 28,000 students from across the world. That’s the underlying problem.</p>
<p>Honestly, even though they say they don’t have quotas, the fact of the matter is that you really are competing with other kids from your school. I can only really speak about Penn here, but the kids at the top of the class were generally the ones who came from regions that have very competitive applicant pools like Southern California. Since they do need geographic diversity, the students selected from “outreach areas” like Minnesota/Wyoming/(insert random low population state here) tend to be weaker because they got a boost from geographic diversity. This also applies to the school level, since they also want diversity in terms of the high schools that people are accepted from.</p>
<p>I’m actually in a similar situation here, with someone else from my school applying to Wharton as his second choice. The Questbridge applicant pool is supposedly separate from the normal early pool, but I’m suspect as to whether or not that means they would take more people than usual from a certain school. Though I’m actually pretty angry about this because this supposedly low-income person using Questbridge just bought a new car and lives in a 2 million dollar house.</p>
<p>I’d like to see some evidence that kids from “geographic outreach areas” were weaker parts of the applicant pool. Although it’s probably true that there are fewer applicants from Montana than from New York, there’s no reason to believe that the ones from Montana are weaker academically, and schools like Brown are so desirable that they have the top students from all 50 states vying for positions.</p>
<p>In any case, it’s near impossible to know whether this other student will affect your chances of getting into Brown - but why bother worrying about it anyway? It sounds like Brown is your clear first choice and you are applying ED there anyway, so just apply and hope for the best.</p>
<p>It is not necessarily an advantage to your classmate to apply through QuestBridge. Sometimes students who apply directly ED do better than through QuestBridge. </p>
<p>You are competing with students from your school–however, I would guess that the QuestBridge pool is its own thing, so to speak, and wouldn’t worry about it. You will be considered in a different peer group anyway.</p>
<p>BTW, I have reported students to QuestBridge who I knew did not really meet the criteria. Since I am a college counselor, they take my notes seriously, but Dananimals, you might write anyway.</p>
<p>You aren’t competing with people from your school. Even if it’s true that the geographic boost exists, that just means you’re competing with people from your very broad geographic area, not one specific girl. She isn’t messing with your chances at all; if they want you in, you’ll get in, otherwise, tough luck.</p>
<p>I think Danimals might be correct when she asserts that “geographical outreach area” students are given a boost. This boost is even inherent in the PSAT scoring. Princeton Review publishes the approximate score by state that a student will need to become a National Merit Semi-Finalist. The northeastern states are in the 218 to 221 range, while Montana is 204, Wyoming is 201 and Mississippi is 203. That is quite a spread.</p>
<p>dont know exactly. do you know anything else about this girl besides that she is a questbridge applicant? being a questbridge finalist does mean she has relatively good stats but not specifically for brown…</p>
<p>just worry about yourself. if you deserve it you will get in. it seems like you have many insecurities, and you have found a target to direct them at. stop worrying about “this girl” from your school. its not nice.</p>
<p>I am shocked that some of you are so nosy about other applicants scores and incomes. You don’t know if the 2 million dollar house is theirs or perhaps a relatives that they are just living in. They will be submitting FA documents and IF they are cheating, they will likely get caught, but it is frankly none of your business. As far as “knowing” the scores from Ivy friends, how do they know what Joe from Montana got on his SAT? :rolleyes: Lastly, for those of you sending emails to turn people in for what you DONT know is inappropriate.</p>
<p>OP, as others have stated, one QB applicant from your HS will not lessen your chances at Brown but 28,000 other applicants might.</p>