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04-02-2008, 09:57 AM
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#1 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Soon to be Johns Hopkins
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| Waitlist chances
Is it worth it to pursue the waitlist, or do they rarely accept anyone? | 
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04-02-2008, 10:19 PM
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#2 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Gender: Female
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| They said that they usually take 50 people off of a 500 person waitlist on the letter | |
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04-03-2008, 07:18 PM
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
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| Anyone reading this who got off the waitlist at Brown in years past and can you share how you did it? Thanks. | |
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04-05-2008, 02:53 AM
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#4 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Providence, RI
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| Acceptance off the waitlist depends heavily on what the matriculation is like in the regular decision pool, and therefore you can't really predict very well from past years. Since I know several people in my circle of acquaintances who got in off the waitlist, I'm guessing my year (2009) fell into the norm of about 50 people. However, matriculation was very high for the class of 2010, and based off what an admissions officer told me, very few to none were let in off the waitlist.
Getting in off the waitlist is some combination of persistence and luck. I was very lucky and managed to get accepted off the waitlist without sending in any additional material or calling. Other friends of mine sent in letters of interest and also got in off the waitlist. | |
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04-06-2008, 06:16 AM
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#5 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
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| bro i am also waitlisted... but didn yet get the 'card' by postal... about your friends, how did they send the letters of interest? did they mail them or did they send them via e-mail? kinda confused as what to do...help me out.. | |
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04-06-2008, 06:19 AM
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#6 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
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| last year i guess brown took 35 students...unno wat ey will dis yr..hope dey take me in...n for those who got into other top places apart from Brown..please dont choose brown..let people like us go there who do not have a home anywhere ( i mean acceptances!!) | |
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04-14-2008, 06:03 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oregon / Providence
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| it's worth it to pursue, you'll regret if you don't.
send in a letter and maybe another rec. that doesn't take much time, and now you've "pursued" it | |
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04-16-2008, 01:52 PM
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#8 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Soon to be Johns Hopkins
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| Is there a priority waitlist at Brown like at Rice? Or is everyone on the same list? | |
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04-16-2008, 10:17 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oregon / Providence
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| there is no priority waitlist | |
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04-16-2008, 11:38 PM
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#10 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
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| Since schools like Harvard and Princeton eliminated Early Decision for this year's applicants, do you think more people will be admitted from the waitlist? Or do you think that schools took the Harvard/Princeton thing into account when determining the number of people they want to accept in anticipation of a lower yield?
These are just my thoughts; they're not based on statistics or anything like that:
I think that Brown and other highly-ranked schools didn't even know themselves how many people to admit, so they were probably conservative in the amount of people they took. They probably were thinking of the following scenario:
If someone gets into Harvard and Brown, I'd have to guess that that person is going to go to the former (not my preference at all), so then that person's spot will go to someone else.
Thus, the waitlist won't be as much as a so-called "black hole" this year.
Would you say that's an accurate assumption? Other thoughts? | |
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04-16-2008, 11:48 PM
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#11 | | Junior Member
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| i hope you're right | |
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04-16-2008, 11:52 PM
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#12 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
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| From letter, I think Harvard admitted 300 additional students than needed in original decision round. | |
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04-16-2008, 11:56 PM
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#13 | | Junior Member
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| (Replying to czar) So do I. Anyone with criticisms/support for my theory?
(Replying to myohmy) How do you think that stat affects/is relevant to those of us on the Brown waitlist? | |
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04-17-2008, 12:17 PM
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#14 | | Senior Member
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| Guys there's just no way to tell  | |
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