<p>^^ "Shouldn't they be accepting more people this year due to the financial situation...? "</p>
<p>I'd suspect it's more likely that they'll have to dig deeper into their wait-list than in previous years. To accept a higher number than in previous years, in an attempt to divine which way the economic weathervane happens to be pointing in April, could result in them having too many students to house. </p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that a majority of accepted students at Brown will likely matriculate there, unless they have been accepted at one of the few schools that are better.</p>
<p><strong>I believe this is the cue for someone to once again post the tired link for the NYT matrix from 2004 showing how School X stacks up against School Y</strong></p>
<p>But I am not an insider, so I am only guessing how this will all play out.</p>
<p>I heard they accepted too many people last year and had to scramble to find dorms for freshman...i hope that doesn't make them way more conservative in their initial acceptances (but maybe they will take more people off the waitlist this year :) )</p>
<p>with brown no longer on the common app, i feel like its they have more unqualified applicants than qualified applicants in the huge application increase. well, not unqualified, but wouldnt get in. personally i think that if you had gotten in last year, you would have gotten in this year, i dont think they are really raising their standards</p>
<p>^^Nobody freak out. Brown's class size is ~1500, which means they are MOST DEFINATELY accepting more than 1485 students. They wll probably be accepting a little less than twice that number.</p>
<p>What Logan is referencing is the number that Brown has been giving for its intended freshman class size (this was the exact same number that was sent on the early decision acceptance letters).
When you account for the fact that only 1000 of these will be coming from regular decision, but also the fact that the RD yield rate for the class of 2011 was 57%, and it will likely be much lower this year given the much-discussed cross-applications between all the Ivies and the resultant drop in every school's yield rates, I would think that there will be about 2000 people accepted.
Another argument that I have seen in various forums and editorials is that, in order for elite schools to combat this anticipated drop in yield rates, coupled with their desire to maintain their low admit rates, they will accept far fewer people and put a lot more people than usual on their waitlist, using a lot more of these applicants to round out their classes.
Of course, there's no way to know which of the two way's they'll go until we open the proverbial box on March 31 and see which of the two routes they chose. (I figured I might as well continue the quantum mechanics references).</p>
<p>sherlock1016: ""with brown no longer on the common app..""<br>
==> Huh? not sure what you're talking about here. Brown is on the Common App. Are they bailing from this next year?</p>
<p>funfun: ""Other schools are coming back with 100% scholarships. I bet that a lot of students go with the scholarships over their favorite universities. ""
==> I agree. I think the Ivies are probably insulated from this somewhat, given that they never seem to run out of applicants, and they also have some pretty favorable FA with their new progarms in the past few years. But the next tier of schools down, the ones that <em>think</em> they are Ivies but don't give merit aid -- those schools are screwed this year. I think they may be unpleasantly surprised when they start getting the "thanks but not thanks" responses from kids who just simply cannot afford to make up the difference this year.</p>
<p>^ Glad to hear it, livemylife. Was it merit aid? (I mean, was it meant to meet the gap from your EFC, or was it above and beyond that)? Mind if I ask what school? Please don't answer unless you feel comfortable, but I'm trying to get a handle on the FA trends this year... Thanks.</p>
<p>I talked to someone close to the admission's people and he said that they had 24,000 applications this year, 20% higher than last year. That's not a good sign...</p>