The Class of 2013 by the Numbers

September 25th, 2009

As an alum, be honest: could you get into Brown today? Admission is now so competitive that fewer than 16 percent of applicants make the cut. Of the first-year students arriving on campus in September, 96 percent were in the top ten percent of their high school graduating classes, and 28 percent were valedictorians. Here are a few more statistics about the class of 2013.

CLASS SIZE 1,502

SAT RANGE
Critical reading 650-760
Math 670-770

GENDER
Men 48%
Women 52%

ETHNICITY
African American 6%
Asian American 16%
International 10%
Latino American 9%
Native American 1%
White 43%
Unspecified 15%

GEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS
New York 14%
California 11%
Massachusetts 10%
International 10%
New Jersey 5%
Rhode Island 4%

FAMILY TIES
Children of alumni 12%
1st-generation college students 14%

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