<p>I’m so nervous right now. I’d calmed down a bit for a few weeks after getting accepted to Grinnell, but now I was waitlisted from WashU and I’m freaking out.</p>
<p>I think it’s because I didn’t know that they notified candidates so early, so I wasn’t able to mentally prepare myself in advance. I’m just ready for this entire process to be over and done with.</p>
<p>@opaline i was rejected by washu. 4.3, 2350, 34, and i visited. i’m scared as ****, right there with you.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted by Wash U and Case on the same day bros haha. You can see my stats on either college’s results threads.</p>
<p>So i don’t know if people are still using this thread but i got an email regarding financial aid on March 4. Do you think that it is a sign that i got accepted?</p>
<p>Dear xxxx,</p>
<p>You have indicated on your application to Brown University that you would be applying for financial aid. While the Admissions office reviews your admission application, we, in the Office of Financial Aid, would like to make sure we have the correct information to provide you a financial aid evaluation, if you were to be admitted to Brown.</p>
<p>Please read the following carefully as our office is in need of additional information and/or clarification from you regarding the application materials you have submitted thus far:</p>
<pre><code> You indicated on your CSS/PROFILE form that your parent(s) own a business or a farm. Please provide a copy of your parents’ 2012 (Form 1120 for yyyy INC.) corporate tax return to our office. If the final or draft copy of the 2012 1120 is not available, please provide the 2011 Form 1120 and the 2013-14 Business/Farm Supplement Form directly to our office.
</code></pre>
<p>Please note that this request is independent of any decision ultimately made by the Office of Admissions in regard to your application for admission to the University. Thank you for your assistance in this matter. If you have any questions concerning this request, please contact our office at (401) 863-2721 or respond directly to this email.</p>
<p>Read the last paragraph: “Please note that this request is independent of any decision ultimately made by the Office of Admissions in regard to your application for admission to the University.”</p>
<p>So… no, it is not a sign of an acceptance. They’re just letting you know that your financial aid application is incomplete.</p>
<p>I know what you are saying, and it does say that on every financial aid email that all colleges send. I am just asking because it is March 4, and they are probably done with all of the decisions by now. </p>
<p>I have a brother who was a senior applying to colleges and only the schools that he got into last year sent email regarding financial aid during March…so i am just wondering if anybody has had the same experience.</p>
<p>That’s true, it is a bit late. But I don’t think they’re entirely done with decisions by now - Tufts, for example, just went into committee about a week ago, and they certainly don’t receive the volume of applications Brown does. </p>
<p>Either way, good luck! We’re all hoping for good news in the next few weeks…</p>
<p>to those talking about WUSTL earlier,
if you were waitlisted, it’s probably because of “tufts” syndrome. (google the term)
i know many people with flawless apps being waitlisted and rejected. go through their decisions thread here on CC!</p>
<p>also, i am really anxious about the decisions.
there isn’t much i can do, is there? send in extra LOR or essay? :
aarrghhh. March 28 >_></p>
<p>The decisions are pretty much all made by now…</p>
<p>Hi im also applying to Brown. A teacher who wrote me a recommendation for my extracurricular was sent a letter from Brown saying thank you for writing the recommendation. She has written recommendation letters for students applying to brown before and she said that she has never received a “thank you” letter in previous years. Is that done routinely at Brown? Anyone?</p>
<p>^there is no co-relation between the thank you letter and the acceptance letter.
also, if she sent in that L.O.R later as an additional document, that may explain the thank you.</p>
<p>
Wow. What a sign of rabid desparation! Chillax rew. The planet’s not going to split open if Brown rejects you. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p>A few random comments from an alumni interviewer:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>WashU’s acceptances are notoriously head-scratchers. I’ve been on CC long enough to know that there seems to be no rationale for who gets in, who gets waitlisted and who gets denied. So don’t make any connections between what happened at WashU and any other school (although, when you have two schools with low acceptance rates, the chances that one person gets denied by both is pretty high).</p></li>
<li><p>When an admissions officer reads a particularly well-written and insightful recommendation letter, it is standard practice to send the teacher a note. </p></li>
<li><p>As for Tufts syndrome – very few schools practice this now. When the top schools have such low acceptance rates, no one can assume that anyone, no matter how qualified, is going to get into a better school. Based on prior years of WashU acceptance trends, it does seem like it protects its yield and likes to accept students who have shown a high level of interest.</p></li>
<li><p>Brown does value demonstrated interest, but doesn’t measure that by campus visits.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I am so nervous about my decision result. Wish you all good luck!</p>
<p>T26E4, i wish i could agree.
and i wish i could explain why the desperation.
there are many circumstances that lead to such desperation.
i dont mean to be cocky, but its true.</p>
<p>Welp. I just reread my supplement, and my short answers are… not good. They don’t really sound like me. I think it’s because I started them earlier than my other apps, so I hadn’t really gotten the hang of using my “voice”… </p>
<p>Well, such is life. <em>big sigh</em></p>
<p>Blargh.</p>
<p>How likely is it that I’ll be accepted if I received a likely letter, assuming I maintain grades etc? 99.99%? These last two weeks will have me absolutely anxious.</p>
<p>^ 100%, if, as you say, you maintain grades and don’t commit a felony. Congratulations, you have no reason to be anxious. :)</p>
<p>Any info about decision date ? the wait appears endless.</p>