What on earth do I do?

ClaySoul
Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:11:35 +0000

I’m transferring to Brown and am in some serious agony waiting on the decision

I was waitlisted last year and feel like I put in a very strong application this year. My admissions officer knows me and the rugby team are being big supporters for my application (though they have only a very small influence) I go to Tulane University. My first semester GPA was 3.64 including an S grade and my midterm grades for second semester was a 4.0. My SAT is 1370. I have decent college EC and absolutely incredible high school EC.

Here’s the problem:

This year, Brown decided to give financial aid to transfers. However, they alloted a paltry 400,000 dollars for over 200 transfers accepted. They are thus need-aware. To what extent need-awareness really affects your chances is beyond me.

My family has a need of about 23,000, and I"m really worried this is going to hurt my chances. The last thing I want is to be rejected because of need.

I am considering emailing my admissions counselor and saying something like

“Although financial aid would of course be extremely preferable, I love Brown so much that I would hopefully find a way to pay for it even if I was given no aid. I’m not saying that I don’t need financial aid, because I do, but the very last thing I want to happen is to not be accepted because of financial need”

Here is my concern. I don’t want them to think that I don’t need financial aid as much as the next person. Lets say they really want both me and another person with the same need, but I wrote this letter. I dont want them to give the aid to the person who didn’t write the letter because they didn’t say they could hopefully be able to pay for it.

Any thoughts?

PLEASE RESPOND! i’M DYING!