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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD loved Brown too.  She’s high stats, amazing on paper, etc.  has done everything she can.  Except she didn’t.  She could have played the recruitable athlete game and didn’t. She wasn’t born into legacy status.  She isn’t URM.

After a discussion about what being a lottery school means, she’s applying ED to her second choice, where the ED bump could make the difference, and applying RD to Brown if it comes to that.

Here’s a powerful exercise.  Take Brown’s class. Subtract athletes. Subtract legacies. Subtract URMs. Subtract 1st Gen/ Pell Grant.  These numbers are all available. Then look at the real number of seats available based on merit.

Girls are harder admits. So take the number of female applicant left and the number of female seats based on historical data.  Then calculate her chances.  That new number is very sobering. And for last years splats is blow 1% for some schools  Your kid will almost certainly get deferred, and even WL.  And not admitted. Is she okay with that?

I’m against Lottery schools as ED IF the family becomes so focused on them that any other outcome is not good enough And they are strung along into May and a June praying for a school that was never gonna happen.  Or, if it keeps a kid from applying ED to a low reach /high match school they also love.

At a minimum, have a realistic ED2 school ready to go in late September. Don’t pin everything on Brown and then scramble. [/quote]

You all always do this math, but you're not getting it quite right. If you remove all "seats" taken by the hooks, but then you don't remove all those applicants. I get it, it's still a single-digit number, but it's not 1%. Stop blaming everying on athletes and POC. Of course your kids love Brown. Seriously, who wouldn't love Brown. Great, pretty school in an awesome city. But guess what, most people don't get what they want. Stop making excuses and blaming hard-working athletes and people of color who are every bit as qualified.[/quote]

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