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.
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.
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?
“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.
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?
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.