I would say most commonly Yale, but also more generally all the Ivies (except Columbia - you should know why) and Stanford. I'd say Columbia, UChicago, Cornell, Penn and MIT are the few schools that students looking at Brown generally never even a...

I would echo the other responses and also add that you should only apply to as many schools as you think you can put your absolute 100% into each application - a good rule of thumb would be to make sure that you never ever copy paste anything from...

I myself personally have a friend at Brown who chose Brown over MIT - he only applied early to these 2 schools, and got into both and chose Brown. In his specific case, it was because his parents studied and met each other at Brown and they had th...

Adding onto the previous comment, I will say that if going from a 96% to a 98% is going to take up a significant amount of time that you believe you could've spent writing a research paper then just do the research paper.

However, if you're debat...

Adding onto Srihari's comment, I will say that if attending a pre-college program at an elite college will put any financial strain on you and/or your family, then it shouldn't even be something you're considering. I say this for 2 reasons. Firstl...

There are 2 ways:

1. The first is that you can log into your college board account and check if the scores have all been delivered by clicking on "Check Score Sends" - this will show a list of universities to which you have sent your scores and whe...

Not entirely.

I will say that they are closer to college level courses (in terms of course content and complexity) than ordinary classes however what happens is that, in order to compensate for this increased difficulty they have a very relaxed g...

Yes, of course you can. The official stance is that it does not impact your admissions decision and I am inclined to agree with that from personal experience, though there are few caveats.

Firstly, if you're applying to places like Cornell and P...

It depends on if the school is need-blind or need-aware.

Most schools in the US are need-blind for US Citizens and Permanent Residents, this means that if you are a US Citizen or Permanent Resident then irrespective of whether or not you apply fo...

I think you can look at "How did you spend your summers while in High School?" which I answered earlier. In addition to that, I will say that showing some form of work experience in a field you're interested in, goes a long way in showing AO's tha...

I'd say class rank is quite important because colleges love to evaluate applications "in context" and class rank gives them a lot of context. For example, say that all your grades are only between 80 and 85 and your GPA is much lower than the trad...

I'd say that the first and most important thing about interviews is that, almost always, the interviews are non-evaluative. This means that while your interviewer will be submitting an interview report to the college, in most cases it can never hu...

I can confidently say that there is no specific formula for getting into an Ivy League school. Amongst my friends at Brown, I have those who only scored a 1300 on the SAT to those who scored a 1600, those who are athletes and represent Brown in th...

I'm a freshman at Brown University from India. One of the main extracurricular activities I pursued consistently throughout high school was being part of a Trekking Club at School. I helped start the club and it has been extremely successful and t...

I think the most important thing is to be extremely authentic. College AO's are really good at knowing when you're being overly pretentious and trying to make things seem bigger/better than they are. Never do that. AO's know that you're just a 17/...