Looing for feedback from parents with kids @ Brown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our kid is ED-ing to Brown and this post is a good reality check. Ugh. Wish DC would use early at an easier target but they want to try....

Let them try, otherwise there is always “what if”. You never know what might click. My DC had no hook when applying ED to Brown and luckily got in. We still feel that it was mainly luck.

Good luck to your kid!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If he is unhooked, save his ED for a school where he would get an edge applying early.

There was an article in The Atlantic about ED at Brown. ED at Brown is reserved for recruits, legacies and the like. My recollection is from the class they were reviewing in the article was 18 students that were not recruited or legacies got in. 18. Out of tens of thousands.

Not worth an ED unless you fit one of those categories (recruited, legacy, etc.)

[Anonymous]

My ds is at Brown and admittedly is URM. But his experience is a bit different from the advice I'm seeing here that it's impossible to get in without a hook. He's been really disappointed by how few URMs are around. There is definitely a preference for legacies, but in his friend group at Brown, almost none are URM, legacy, or athletes. In fact, most are Asians with no hooks.

I'm not trying to start a controversy-- surely the reason he, himself, was admitted was that he was URM. But there are so many unhooked kids surrounding him that I wouldn't say that the odds are as low for un-hooked kids as is implied.

(Truth is, almost all of these top schools are just a lottery, so you might as well enter the one for Brown!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My ds is at Brown and admittedly is URM. But his experience is a bit different from the advice I'm seeing here that it's impossible to get in without a hook. He's been really disappointed by how few URMs are around. There is definitely a preference for legacies, but in his friend group at Brown, almost none are URM, legacy, or athletes. In fact, most are Asians with no hooks.

I'm not trying to start a controversy-- surely the reason he, himself, was admitted was that he was URM. But there are so many unhooked kids surrounding him that I wouldn't say that the odds are as low for un-hooked kids as is implied.

(Truth is, almost all of these top schools are just a lottery, so you might as well enter the one for Brown!)

+1
My DC had no hook (not URM, legacy etc) but was admitted in ED. You never know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My ds is at Brown and admittedly is URM. But his experience is a bit different from the advice I'm seeing here that it's impossible to get in without a hook. He's been really disappointed by how few URMs are around. There is definitely a preference for legacies, but in his friend group at Brown, almost none are URM, legacy, or athletes. In fact, most are Asians with no hooks.

I'm not trying to start a controversy-- surely the reason he, himself, was admitted was that he was URM. But there are so many unhooked kids surrounding him that I wouldn't say that the odds are as low for un-hooked kids as is implied.

(Truth is, almost all of these top schools are just a lottery, so you might as well enter the one for Brown!)

I'm sure that was not the reason he got in. One of the reasons? Yes, maybe. But I'm sure your kid had a lot going for him to be able to get into a place like Brown.

[Anonymous]

DS is also URM and at Brown. Reports the same as above. Not really friends with other URM or kids with other hooks.