<p>Last night, brother read us everything that was in the acceptance letter from Brandeis. There was the acceptance and then a letter stating that we did not qualify for financial aid (we knew that would be the case but w/o the FA forms Brandeis will not consider an applicant for merit) and a letter telling us about Stafford Loans.</p>
<p>After we called our niece who graduated from Brandeis in '07 and had received a merit scholarship to go there. She did indicate that the merit letter was separate from her acceptance letter. In fact in her case it was weird because the merit letter came BEFORE the acceptance letter.</p>
<p>It would be nice to know what the usual timeline is since an applicant doesn’t get a letter stating that they are NOT begin offered merit but only if they are.</p>