Undergraduate Admission
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Undergraduate Admission
Application Checklist for Transfer Applicants
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Application Checklist for Transfer Applicants
- Application fee of $80 or a fee waiver.
- Common Application (Transfer Application).
- Brown’s supplemental essays are submitted through the Common Application.
- Official copy of your high school transcript.
- Official copy of your college transcript(s) and final grades from all previous college coursework. This should include grades from your most recently completed semester or quarter work and a list of your current course enrollments. If you are not currently enrolled in college, please submit an official copy of all college transcripts. The Common Application provides the ability for you to upload your college transcript, which Brown will consider unofficial. Official transcripts must be sent directly to the Office of College Admission at transferdocuments@brown.edu by your current and previous institution(s).
- College Report (Report of Good Standing)\ Please ask the appropriate college administrator - someone with access to your full records - to complete the College Report. Please print the most recent version of the form, which is linked above, and bring it to the administrator to complete. Administrators should email the completed document to transferdocuments@brown.edu. Please note that some colleges have their own form or letter and will not complete the Common Application form. Brown will accept a college's own standard form in lieu of the Common Application form.
- Two instructor evaluations from faculty who have taught you at your current college. Alternatively, we will accept evaluations from TAs who have been your instructors. These letters must be submitted through the Common Application or sent via email to transferdocuments@brown.edu or by fax to 401-863-5991. Material sent by email or fax should include the applicant's name, date of birth and college or university. Letters sent by email should be sent as PDF attachments. If there are not two faculty members or TAs from whom you are able to request an evaluation, you may replace one of the required letters with a recommendation from a teacher from your senior year of high school.
- Mid Term Report, also found on the Common Application. If you are currently enrolled in college, you should list your current courses and then either ask each of your professors to provide you with a progress grade, or provide your own in-progress grade based on your online gradebook. Please note that this is a self-report form and your college should not complete this form for you. Upload your completed Mid Term Report through your Brown Applicant Portal. If you are not currently enrolled in college, email transferadmission@brown.edu to request this item be waived as there are no in-progress courses to report. Please monitor your application checklist to confirm this item is updated.
- Brown is test optional for transfer applicants through the 2025-2026 admission cycle, meaning that test scores are not a required component of the transfer application this year. If you would like to include test scores for review in your application, testing must be completed by September (spring entry application) or February (fall entry application) to ensure receipt of scores. You may use your Brown Applicant Portal to self-report test scores that were not included on your Common Application. More information on our standardized testing policies can be found on our website.
- Financial Aid Applicants must submit the appropriate financial aid documents when they apply. For more information visit the Office of Financial Aid.
We understand that the cost of applying to college can be prohibitive for some applicants and their families. If the application fee constitutes a financial hardship, we will accept a fee waiver in lieu of the application fee itself. The College Board provides fee waivers to students who take the SAT, and these fee waivers are accepted by our office. We will also accept a fee waiver in the form of a letter (printed on college letterhead) from a dean, advisor or financial aid officer at your home institution certifying that the application fee constitutes a financial hardship.
Important Notes on Submitting Documents
- Applicants should submit the majority of their application using the Common Application website.
- All official documents (high school and college transcripts, the College Report, and Instructor Evaluations) must be submitted to the Office of College Admission by the institutions or parties that created those documents and should be submitted through the Common App. If this is not possible, they may also be submitted by email to transferdocuments@brown.edu or by fax to 401-863-5991. In the rare circumstances that none of these alternatives are possible, materials can be mailed to Brown University, Office of College Admission, Box 1876, Providence, RI, 02912. You may submit your official college transcript either by sending a request to your Registrar through the Common Application or asking your Registrar to submit your transcript directly to our office. Please note that we cannot accept official documents that have been sent to our office by applicants themselves with the exception of the Mid Term Report, which you may upload through your Brown Applicant Portal.
- By mid-March or mid-October (depending on which application deadline you have chosen), the Office of Admission will send transfer applicants a username and password that they can use to check the completeness of their application and upload optional supplementary material through the Brown Applicant Portal.
- It is likely that any document received by our office will not be entered into our application database until a week after it has been received. If you have recently submitted a document, please understand that it may take a week or more before it is listed on your application checklist as having been received. In early October or early March we will email you to let you know if any required documents are missing from your application file.
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