<p>I thought it was just some kind of ‘thank you for applying’-email. For those of you wondering, here are the contents:</p>
<p>’'Dear X,</p>
<p>We hope you are enjoying your final term in high school and that 2012 is off to a good start. Our most important work of the year is well underway, as we will spend much of the winter and early spring reading your application and learning more about you and the other candidates who have included Brown among their college choices. We are pleased and honored that you have chosen to apply to Brown.</p>
<p>We are very aware of the effort you put into preparing your application in arranging to have all your materials sent to us, and we understand as well the effort you put into your high school career to enable you to move on to college. We know none of this is easy and we want you to know we will read your application as thoughtfully and thoroughly as we can, and we will consider carefully the talents and personal qualities that you will bring to the college you choose. As we consider your candidacy, we are looking always for reasons to offer you admission - not for reasons to say no.</p>
<p>So, please be assured that we spend a great deal of time reading, thinking and talking about you between now and the end of March, which is when we will let you know our decision about your application. In the meantime, be in touch with us if you have any questions and, by all means, write to us if you wish to report new accomplishments since you submitted your application. Also, keep up the good work! Even as your high school career is approaching an end, there is much to do and much to learn.</p>
<p>You have very best wishes from all the members of the Brown Admission staff.</p>
<p>To me it sounded almost like a deferral letter. But its way to early to be deferring people considering some people just got interviewed days ago. So its probably a generic email sent to all RD applicants. Don’t really have to look to deep in to this</p>
<p>i think it’s generic. that’s how i interpreted it at first but now im seeing your reactions and getting a bit nervous.</p>
<p>haha it was so sad…i actually thought it was a likely before i opened the email! just because of how the subject was headed, and the fact that some schools are sending likelies, and i aced my brown interview. it was a little sad to see it wasnt, though i wasnt expecting a likely anyway =P</p>
<p>I got the same thing today. I also thought it was a deferral… but I think it’s just for them to reassure all the ridiculously nervous seniors (like me).</p>
<p>They can’t really ‘defer’ RD applicants; they do, however, waitlist some. It seems like a generic letter sent to all applicants to ensure them that their application will be viewed with the respect and consideration it deserves. I think it’s a nice touch!</p>
<p>Well I received this as well, I felt like it was a deferral. I searched past years on CC and saw that some that got it were accepted and some weren’t. I feel like it was sent to those that were strong applicants but did not have an amazing act/sat score. My test scores were the weakest part of my application, do any of you who received it also have weak test scores?? I hope its not a bad sign.</p>
<p>“So, please be assured that we spend a great deal of time reading, thinking and talking about you between now and the end of March, which is when we will let you know our decision about your application.” does that mean I can hear back earlier then late march?!</p>
<p>I don’t have the strongest test scores, but I also looked at past CC threads about this type of email and it was sent to everyone, even people who were accepted, deferred, AND denied Early Decision. Of course, those who were denied received a follow-up email apologizing for the mix-up. </p>
<p>Anyway, based on others’ responses, I think this was just a standard, automated email like everyone’s been saying.</p>
<p>I’m an alum, so I don’t come at this from the perspective of an applicant or applicant’s parent. So, as an unbiased reader, I don’t see any language in that letter that suggests, implies or even hints at deferral. This email strikes me as a nice way to touch base with applicants, nothing more or less. Honestly, if you read into this email that you are being deferred or have decreased chances, i think you are seeing something that just isn’t there.</p>
<p>Actually what the email tells me is that they completed the compilation process of gathering all the info into “the folders” including mid semester reports, and will now start the evaluation process, and just checking in with everyone.</p>
<p>@NasirVan I think you’re just projecting because that’s the way you feel about your application. Everyone has a different idea of what weak scores are, anyway.</p>
<p>I honestly did not read anything into it but “We’ll be reviewing your application some time before March. Have a nice senior year!”</p>
<p>My student got the same e-mail 3 years ago, and at the time could read it either way. (esp as an alum thought it could be a letting you down easy note.) was not, accepted. I think it is in part a “your application is in the works, now don’t bug us more, just settle down and keep doing well the rest of your year” note. It’s also a "here’s our way of letting you know we care about you " bit of PR in the process. I guess it’s hard to say that and at the same time be noncommittal without having everyone read different things into it.</p>