<p>the way wait listing works – yes they will probably let you know AFTER the regular notification date – that’s how they can tell if they have room to admit people from the wait list. it also assumes that you have to go ahead and choose another college and then if you are still interested in brandeis and find out later, you tell the first school you agreed to attend that you are going to a school that had wait listed you-- its up to them whether you get a refund of any deposit. but this is not unusual – its how wait lists usually work – by definition, schools use the wait list to fill openings left after they find out how they did with the people they accept.</p>
<p>as for info re brandeis – here is a link to brandeis’ common data sets. [Office</a> of Institutional Research | Brandeis University](<a href=“http://www.brandeis.edu/offices/IR/cds/CDS.html]Office”>http://www.brandeis.edu/offices/IR/cds/CDS.html) the most recent one available is for 05-06. data about wait lists is section C2 of the common data set. you can look back over several years of info and see how many usually get admitted from the wait list (which of course is no guarantee as to how things will be this year). </p>
<p>if you accept a spot on the wait list and are still interested in brandeis, you should probably do what you can to show them you really want to go and to update them with any info that will help your chances.</p>