How to get into Brown University
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About this livestream
Brown University is one of the nation’s premier higher education institutions. An Ivy League in New England, it offers students that elite East Coast education that most picture when they are applying to college. With the guidance of CollegeVine’s own Brown alumnus Shane Niesen, Elias will be hosting an informative and in-depth livestream on how you can better your chances of admission to this university.
Come prepared with all of your questions around admissions, essays, student life, and more as Elias walks you through optimizing your application to Brown.
Undergrad College: Harvard University '17
Major: Music
Graduate College: University of Michigan, M.M.
Work Experience: Now in my fourth year at CollegeVine, I have helped dozens of students gain acceptance to their top-choice schools and have also advised and mentored thousands more through my livestreams. Apart from my work at CV, I am also a professional conductor and a multi-instrumentalist. I currently serve as the music director of the Apollo Ensemble of Boston, and I have led symphonic concerts and operatic productions throughout the United States.
My Admissions Story: Initially interested in pursuing a career as a performing cellist, I applied almost exclusively to music schools with dual and double degree options and ultimately enrolled in the Tufts University/New England Conservatory Dual Degree Program. Unhappy with the combined program and worried I'd never feel like I was fully a student at either school, I logged back into CommonApp.org in October of my freshman year. I can't say I went about the transfer process in the smartest way (I only applied to two schools!), but Harvard miraculously accepted me (or 'excepted me' as I wrote in a celebratory Facebook post that day - no one ever let me live that one down), and the rest was history.
