Brown Class of 2025 Waitlist

I understand that other schools have filled their classes, but in the statement from the dean of Brown, he kind of implied that there were going to be spots. I took the below from an article in the Brown newspaper:

“This year, the University made slightly more waitlist offers than usual, with the expectation that roughly 1,000 to 1,250 students will likely choose to remain on the list. “The hope is (to notify waitlisted students) by the end of June,” he noted…”

It sounds like they might need to make offers. Also, schools like Princeton and Duke are letting kids off their waitlist already so there may actually be a normal amount of waitlist spots at Brown. The schools list (like Amherst and Bowdoin) have extremely small class sizes so I can imagine that they easily filled up their classes.

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I certainly hope you’re right. I would DIE if I got off the waitlist.

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Anybody know around what day they might start notifying people on the waitlist?

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They said mid-May, so if they have any spots to give, I would assume sometime next week would be the first wave.

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So would my son, he is holding his breath.

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I checked the waitlist letter again and it say no earlier than May 15th. Last that I recall, it said mid-May before but I’m not sure about that… either way, about a week to go.

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they will reply by May 15th and nothing before as stated on the portal - do you think they would be taking more student off the waitlist this year or less?

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“Applying to see what you can get” is fine. That’s how it’s supposed to work. Families aren’t expected to somehow know that they don’t qualify. When I applied, Brown wasn’t need-blind and as a consequence I was admitted but at the same time waitlisted for financial aid (effectively equating to waitlisted for admission, given my family’s finances). But that was long before the Grey Goose vodka guy (who started undergrad at Brown but didn’t graduate because his family ran out of money) donated $100+ million to put Brown’s financial aid budget into need-blind territory.

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Someone on reddit just got off the Waitlist.

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Do you think there’ll be another wave next week?

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Do you know how they found out? Email or portal?

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I got off the waitlist just now got an email to check my application page cuz an update was made.

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Congrats!!! That’s amazing. Are u an international student and did you just find out??

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Nah I’m from texas I got the email at like 3pm central time so 4 for New England

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Congrats!!

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As a parent of a future Brown applicant from TX, congrats! Great to see another Texan added to the class. Would you mind sharing your stats and planned concentration?

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are you a stem or hum major?

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Do you guys think that today was officially the first wave, or will there be a larger first wave on May 15?

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its all speculation but last year there was an “unofficial” first wave (in late april) before the announced date so hoping that’s the case

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No use worrying about it now - it’s out of our control! I would expect there to be subsequent waves after these bunch of acceptances, though we can’t be sure when they are.

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