- > Looking at the Brown Wait list thread on CC, they've been taking applicants off it since May < Here's a snippet from what Admissions sent to alumni interviewers on May 13 regarding the waitlist situation, FWIW:
“On March 26, Brown University made 1736 regular decision offers of admission to the prospective members of the Class of 2024. These students joined the 800 early decision applicants offered admission last December. A total of 36,793 students applied to the University this year. We recently offered admission to a small number of students from the waitlist and anticipate being able to make further offers in the coming weeks.”
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[QUOTE=""]According to the Ivy Day Brown Daily Herald article, taking 300 off the wait list isn’t unusual for the Admissions Office. < It can be zero some years and hundreds others. Just depends on yield reality vs yield prediction (the latter of course being far from an exact science).
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[QUOTE=""]Admissions has had a long history of enrollment management, so this is probably unlikely < Yes, a long tortured history ; ) One year mid/late-70’s, they got it so wrong that sophomores with the worst housing lottery numbers were assigned cots in dorm lounges with footlockers for their personal belongings. As I understand it (there, but not personally involved), this dissipated over a month or so as Housing presumably granted off-campus permission to interested Juniors as fast as they could. Of course, this year everything from the past goes out the window with single-occupancy-only rooms and a host of other changes. May you live in interesting times.
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