wooo waitlisted at cornell too! sounds like brown is at least gonna admit a handful of students from the transfer waitlist, which most schools don’t even do, so guess we can feel good about that.
@Ishouldliveinslt um how do you know that? The wording in the letter made it seem unlikely.
@OptimisticBrownTransfer Just a guess. Read it again, I think the letter implies that they except to have a very small number of spots open, but not many.
@OptimisticBrownTransfer I added a LOR and sent my spring term result electronically. However, they said they won’t confirm addition materials, but they will be added to my files, so I don’t know they really received those or not.
Have you called or emailed them asking whether they are going to use the waitlist this year? I sent an email about that to an admission counselor, haven’t heard back from her yet.(not expecting to hear back tho…)
Btw is here anyone a sophomore transfer?
@brownplz I think the wording is identical across all years, based on the 2012 transfer thread. They took no one that year…
I haven’t contacted them after sending my LOCI. Please let us know if you find out anything 
@OptimisticBrownTransfer where do you see the wording of the letter in that 2012 thread? I guess it would make sense for them to use the same letter every year, but why give us false hope? Either way, it seems like there are a lot of people on the waitlist, so even if they do take a few, the rate will probably something absurd like 2% : x
Update: looked over several years of “Brown Transfer Wait List” threads. If you want to sleep comfortably and optimistically tonight don’t do that lol. Looks like this is gonna be a brutal wait. Anyway, Brown rejects >90% of their transfer applicants, I’m at least a little proud to have made it this far, even if getting in off the waitlist is an extreme stretch.
@Ishouldliveinslt This was the post:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/14485829/#Comment_14485829
Just curious here–why does everyone seem to believe that only a tiny percent (if any) will be taken off the waitlist? I haven’t been able to find any official transfer waitlist stats for Brown, but even their freshman waitlist acceptance rate seems to vary a ton year-to-year, from 0 to ~16%…
@Starling451 Based on the transfer waitlistees from past years, it seems unlikely because very few of them if any receive phone calls (acceptance). Though most applicants aren’t on college confidential, a reasonable amount are.
@OptimisticBrownTransfer Thank you! That’s what I figured, but I wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something.
Anything yet?
@brownplz Nope
So I called this morning and asked if they had an idea of when decisions will be released and got the answer I expected which was that people will be receiving calls on a rolling basis throughout the month. I was also curious if how soon you opted in mattered (I took over a week to formulate my response) and they assured me that it did not. I imagine it would have to be ranked in that case. Sounded like the calling process hasn’t even begun though and no one here has received a call either so I’m not panicking just yet.
Did anyone send materials besides the email to opt in like a final transcript?
@Indecisiveness33 Thanks for the info. I think that the calls, if there are any, should start by next week.
Today is the deadline for accepted transfer applicants to accept or decline their offer, so my bet is that after today they’ll basically know how many people they’re going to call/admit.
should we expect to receive letters of the final decision this week?
Just made it off the waitlist for RUE. Found out via email at work, with notice that a hardcopy package was being FedEx’d over. Best of luck to you all, check your emails!
@RBline Congrats bro!!! You deserved it!! Did you receive any phone calls?
Thanks man (woman?), I couldn’t believe it to be honest! No phone call, just an email with a copy of the notification letter, as well as info on the fedex of my actual package which arrived today. Best of luck to you!