<p>i think that they'll be postmarked by tomorrow</p>
<p>This is nerve-wracking...I thought the application promised notification BY the 15th...no one knows if they mail decision e-mails?</p>
<p>I think they only send letters by regular mail.</p>
<p>Won't almost all Blue Ribbon applicant recipients get accepted?
Does anyone know the percentage accepted?</p>
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<p>while being offered a "blue ribbon" application may make a student feel "special" do not make the mistake of thinking that it is some sign that they have predetermined that you are worthy of admissions. </p>
<p>info about the blue ribbon is really not made very public so it is hard to tell much about its actual impact -- but i think it is wise to view it as a marketing tool -- it encourages students to apply and makes them feel good about brandeis. its a way of target marketing -- which doesn't mean that all (or even most) of those targeted are admitted. </p>
<p>from what little information i've heard, the introduction of the blue ribbon a few years ago increased applications -- at the same time that brandeis is trying to increase its selectivity.</p>
<p>For what it's worth:</p>
<p>I do alumni interviews for Brandeis via the Alumni Admissions Council.
In the past two years, I've interviewed two "Blue Ribbon" applicants and while they were both impressive candidates, neither was offered admission.</p>
<p>Bottom line: I believe that "Blue Ribbon" applicants are evaluated using the same criteria as everyone else, and having "Blue Ribbon" status does not enhance your chances for admission.</p>
<p>Do you think Brandeis rejects very qualified candidates in order to seem more selective, thinking those candidates won't enroll anyway?</p>
<p>Do I think they reject very qualified candidates?
Yes, but every school does.</p>
<p>Do I think they do this to "seem more selective?"
No.</p>
<p>I think that an otherwise "very qualified" candidate can get rejected for many reasons, including lack of enthusiasm for Brandeis.</p>
<p>By this I mean someone who applies to 15 schools and who does not seem to have any particulary good reason for applying to Brandeis, other than to give themselves another school from which to choose.</p>
<p>I've had a few candidates like that. They can't tell you one interesting thing specifically about Brandeis that appealed to them. These sort of candidates are usually rejected despite being qualified "on paper."</p>
<p>That makes sense. So, do more Blue Ribbon Application recipients apply because they were sought out, rather than out of true interest? Otherwise you would think that a higher percentage of Blue Ribbon application recipients would be admitted because admission does correlate with high test scores, which is the criterion for being sent a Blue Ribbon application to begin with (as I understand it).</p>
<p>I'm not sure of the exact criteria for being classified as being "Blue Ribbon", but what you probably don't see among the BR candidates are too many truly unqualified long-shot applicants.</p>
<p>I'm sure every university gets a few applicants every year who fall quite a bit outside the range of what the school is looking for academically. In this case these applicants would be outside the pool of BR candidates and therefore I would suspect that on the average, BR candidates stats would skew higher than the applicant pool as a whole.</p>
<p>In any case, I would not worry too much about the percentages as they are VERY misleading. This is because for pretty much every school, the vast majority of applicants are those who think they can get in. People usually only apply to schools where they think they have a chance of being accepted.</p>
<p>If Brandeis accepts 30% of their applicants, does that mean that everybody has almost a 1/3 chance of admission? Of course not, if you are a 4.0/2400 your chances are much better than that, whilst if you are a 3.0/1700 your chances are pretty close to zero and you probably will not be applying to Brandeis.</p>
<p>it depends when u apply cuz 30% is the overall acceptance rate, you have to take into consideration ED I and II rates, Blue Ribbon rates, and RD acceptance rate cuz i think they all vary :)</p>
<p>Again, I don't think the rate is particularly significant (for the reasons I gave above).</p>
<p>I think that if you want to assess your particular chances of admission, rather than look at the acceptance rates you need to compare yourself to the typical Brandeis student and (this is important) look objectively at yourself and think about what you can bring to the Brandeis community that perhaps other applicants cannot.</p>
<p>that's true, did anybody get a letter yet?</p>
<p>not yet and i'm in CA, so it might be a while. plus, there's no mail on monday and i'm leaving early on tuesday, so if it doesn't come tomorrow, i won't hear for a long time. i called the admissions office and they said if you don't get your decision in the mail within a week, you can call and they'll give it to you, but normally they don't do it over the phone.</p>
<p>omg, i can't imagine getting the final verdict on the phone...i can imagine it...
Adcom: " oh haber...u ummm, got rejected, ok, have a nice day"
Me: umm...if i call back another time, will it change? yeah...let's try that
Adcom: try calling back next year once u found a cure for cancer, k?
lol....the suspense is killing me</p>
<p>i got mine. I was accepted.</p>
<p>jzee,</p>
<p>Was your decision given to you by mail. If so, what state do you live in?</p>
<p>yeah. i got it in the mail today. i live in PA.</p>
<p>Can blue ribbon applicants post their stats here? And, of course, whether they were accepted/rejected, etc?</p>
<p>What does it mean if the "decision on your application has been delayed"?
Is it like getting rejected? Deferred? Do I still have a chance?</p>
<p>im in CA.....still no letter. anyone else get in yet?</p>