<p>Thanks for all the well-wishing, everyone! I just got back from prom!! It was awesome. A few answers to a few questions but these answers are not Brown’s (read: NOT official). They just add a little bit more to our speculation.</p>
<p>Asian, female, SoCal, string instrument player = not hooks at Brown, I think. I heard that Brown doesn’t admit students based on what major was on their Brown application. Hey, you never know if lots of SoCal students declined Brown, miakoula!! I just <em>assumed</em> SoCal was over-represented, andy_college. It seems like a lot of students here apply to Ivies and that’s all I meant by “geographic disadvantage”. I bet my regional representative had a lot of students to measure up against me!!</p>
<p>I never did any of those selective science summer camps. I never won any significant competitions. I never showed I was disposed to an academic field. I’m somewhat shy and I never had any student government positions. I didn’t even score a 2200 on the SAT.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I spent a lot of time on my musical pursuits. I made a musical outreach program at a local church, I co-founded the first string quartet in my school’s performing arts academy, and I’m the president of my school orchestra, which just won a Grammy this year. Regional and state-wide honors orchestras + assistant principal player in community orchestra… The whole schpeal…</p>
<p>I am the valedictorian of my school, but I <em>just</em> found out and I didn’t notify Brown I am.</p>
<p>@SNT
NO idea about international admissions. From last year’s waitlist thread, I know Brown took at least 1 international off the WL last year, but I don’t know about this year or anything…</p>
<p>^Congratulations! Did you find out today–via telephone? I guess the Brown admissions officers changed their minds because in the waitlist letter is says “if the Board votes to offer you admission from our Waiting List, you will be notified by mail.” So should we expect phone calls now? Congrats again, schzmo!</p>
<p>As a fellow waitlistee, I must admit a little disappointment that Brown has not formally communicated how many slots it will take off the list. Most Ivy League schools published this info (i.e. Dartmouth) in its respective newspapers, but the Brown Daily Herald has been inactive for quite some time. It sounds like (according to other previous postings) that on Tuesday the first wave of mail is going out. Why some people have heard via phone and others have not is something we should not yet concern ourselves with, though as someone who has not been called, I feel completely exhausted and confused. Oh - how I dream for closure! Best of luck to everyone else who awaits the call, the mail, the (good) news…</p>
<p>From what I can gather the phone calls have come from regional reps and not from Brown itself. That could explain the calls, a courtesy from the few regional reps involved while Brown’s official policy is to notify people by mail.</p>
<p>I was going to call to ask, but I decided to wait for a few days just to scope out the mailbox. And I also figured, like Pea, that the regional reps who did call were probably doing courtesy calls because the waitlist letter mentioned us only finding out via mail. We’ll see how everything pans out, but until then, good luck everyone!</p>
<p>I’d be headed to Rice University. Even though it would be awesome to get off the waitlist, I’ve never visited Brown before, so it would mean another visit, and another period of agonizing over which college to choose, so I guess it wouldn’t be that bad if I wasn’t accepted. Overall, closure would be the best, so I hope we find out soon!</p>
<p>^^^ Just throwing this out there, but it looks like your chances of being accepted are around zero. From what I’ve heard, if you aren’t 100% certain you’ll attend if accepted, they won’t accept you. Their goal is a 100% yield rate from waitlist acceptances.</p>
<p>Unless you explicitly tell them in your update letter that you would attend Brown if accepted off the waitlist, would they assume the contrary? I said something along the lines of “I still have strong interest in attending Brown University,” but I never said anything about being uncertain of accepting my spot if I was taken off the waitlist. By not explicity saying that I would accept the offer if I was taken of the waitlist, did I hurt my chances of being accepted off the waitlist?</p>
<p>I was called today and my regional officer told me that I had been accepted off the waiting list!!!
I’m so excited! I can’t wait to go to Brown!
I wish everyone luck on their news.</p>
<p>And I’m not sure. I don’t work for admissions so I can’t give you an answer either way. From everything I’ve read, though, you do increase your chances if you tell them you will definitely attend if accepted.</p>
It was awesome. A few answers to a few questions but these answers are not Brown’s (read: NOT official). They just add a little bit more to our speculation.</p>