<p>Well everything was a no for 2017</p>
<p>By FedEx, and no, I’m actually only a few hours from Brown.</p>
<p>Can you post the letter word for word please</p>
<p>Dear ____:</p>
<p>In my letter to you of March 28, 2013, I promised that your application would be considered for any available position in Brown’s Class of 2017. As of today, the responses we have received from accepted students have filled our available spaces, and we are unable to offer you a place in the Class of 2017. Your academic, extracurricular, and personal accomplishments have impressed the members of the Board of Admission, however, and we would like to offer you a place at Brown as a member of the Class of 2018, entering in the fall of 2014.</p>
<p>We truly hope that you will give serious consideration to our offer. You are one of a very small number of students to whom we felt compelled to make an offer of admission to next year’s class. While having to wait a year before entering Brown may present unexpected options and opportunities for you, you should know that many students take time off before or during their academic careers and find the experience productive and thoroughly enjoyable. Nearly 40 members of the Class of 2017 have already chosen to defer admission until next year. We are confident that you can use the coming months to successfully engage in the many opportunities available to students pursuing a gap year - work, travel, volunteer, perfect a skill, and/or pursue an internship.</p>
<p>If you accept our offer of admission to the Class of 2018, please be aware that during the next year you are not permitted to enroll at another college or university as a full-time student, nor are you permitted to file an application for admission to another institution. In addition, we expect that you will withdraw from any college at which you are currently intending to matriculate.</p>
<p>Please know that prior to your enrollment in September 2014 we expect you to maintain academic and social records of the same high quality that you have demonstrated in your career thus far.</p>
<p>Please be in tough with us if you have any questions. James Kytta, Associate Director of Admission, will be glad to discuss options and opportunities with you. He can be reached at 401-863-7917 or by email at James<em><a href=“mailto:Kytta@brown.edu”>Kytta@brown.edu</a>. James Tilton, Director of Financial Aid, is also available to discuss questions you may have about financial aid. He can be reached at 401-863-2721 or at James</em><a href=“mailto:Tilton@brown.edu”>Tilton@brown.edu</a>. Please let us know your decision within two weeks of the date of this letter by contacting James Kytta - we hope very much you will choose to join us. Congratulations on your successful high school career, thank you for considering Brown, and best wishes for a relaxing and enjoyable summer.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
James S. Miller
Dean of Admission</p>
<p>Thank you. </p>
<p>btw I think they said ~40 class of 2017 ADMITS chose to defer their admission, not ~40 people were z-listed</p>
<p>Yeah, I misread it initially. Although I’d imagine that less than forty people were z-listed as well.</p>
<p>Yes probably. Its usually in the twenties.</p>
<p>I really want my decision. I emailed my regional officer in early April and she agreed to email/call me. I haven’t heard anything yet. </p>
<p>I’m guessing this means bad news.</p>
<p>@MagicBard </p>
<p>sorry one more thing. </p>
<p>Were you contacted before receiving your admission letter? Did they ask if you would enroll if admitted or anything like that?</p>
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<p>Does anyone have insight into what this means exactly? Does it just mean something like “don’t get arrested” or does it mean “you need to be volunteering/working/doing something meaningful and impressive”</p>
<p>@i wanna be Brown</p>
<p>I think it probably means keep a clean record. But yes it is a little confusing.</p>
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<p>My son took an approved gap year before beginning at Brown. Before he got approval, he had to submit an essay about his plans for the year – Brown wanted to see that he was going to do something that had educational value in the larger sense, something beyond playing video games and going to parties.</p>
<p>I would imagine that the standard gap year expectations hold sway here, even if the gap year is Brown’s idea rather than the student’s. Travel, do volunteer work or an internship, start a business, teach yourself something. It doesn’t need to be full-time by any means, but do something to grow as a person.</p>
<p>I believe it means that you have to tell them what you’re doing on a regular basis, i.e., send in documents like the midyear report every so often. I’m sure the don’t get in trouble is presumed.</p>
<p>Thanks lorem. Not at all surprised to hear about that for a student proposed gap year and was wondering if it would hold true for a Z list offer. Despite how badly I wanted to go to Brown, I definitely would have said “thanks but no thanks” if I had been Z listed.</p>