<p>are they scheduled to COME the 30th or are they sent out on the 30th? if it’s the former, i’d kind of like to wait to get mine instead of checking online, as finding out college acceptance or rejection on the internet seems kind of anticlimactic…</p>
<p>Sent out on the 30th.</p>
<p>grosss. thanks, though. i guess i'll be checking online.</p>
<p>given the fat letter/thin letter thing, I find mail to be more anticlimactic, since you know what the inside says before you open it.</p>
<p>I have my interview today. I'm thinking it isn't counting for anything.</p>
<p>was it scheduled a long time ago for today? or did you recently get called for one?</p>
<p>I just had it about 2 hours ago. It went very well. He contacted me last week saying that Brown just asked him to interview me. At first I thought it wouldn't count for anything (since it is so late), but he said that there's definitely time for him to send in a report. Do you think the fact that Brown contacted him last week is a good sign?</p>
<p>I attended a meeting for minority students who applied to Brown on February 22; the director of minority recruitment was there. She said that all the decisions would be made by March 20, so I'm a little surprised that Brown is still doing interviews. I also have a friend who got a lazy interviewer--the interviewer get in contact with my friend until the day before "interviewers had to be done," which my friend's interviewer said was March 1. I don't know--maybe you were a special case, Alex M. or else my information was just wrong. Or else Brown is just behind schedule.</p>
<p>I am an interviewer. Here is my guess-- your application was probably assigned to the wrong geographic area (by accident) and the correction was made very late, or the interviewer did not get the first notification to call you and was late in setting up the appointment.</p>
<p>It should not be read as a good sign nor as a bad sign.</p>
<p>Good luck to all.</p>
<p>does every applicant get an interview?</p>
<p>SBMom, could you clear some stuff up about interviews for us?</p>
<p>For example, I thought my interview was ok... not really that great or that horrible, but I didn't have that most amazing feeling after shaking hands with my interviewer and walking out of the library. However, I was accepted ED to Brown.</p>
<p>Also, a friend of mine is an interviewer from Princeton, and she said one year she interviewed 5 kids and scored them on a scale of 1-5, 1 being the worst and 5 being the best. When she was notified by princeton of which ones got in, who DID get in? The kid who got the 1. Who was rejected -- the kid who got the 5. Just shows you how unpredictable it all is...</p>
<p>How do you see it as a Brown interviewer?</p>
<p>"given the fat letter/thin letter thing, I find mail to be more anticlimactic, since you know what the inside says before you open it."</p>
<p>so far my acceptances have all been thin letters. it was very climatic, since my sister said that same thing to me.."if you get a thin letter, you're doomed" or something to that effect</p>
<p>So far, three of decisions have been revealed online and two have been in thin envelopes. It truly was very scary. I didn't so much mind getting an acceptance online but the rejection was brutal.</p>
<p>have you been receiving letters from rolling schools? And by thin, do you mean totally standard envelope. I must admit that one of my acceptance packets was not really "thick" but it was certainly not a normal envelope.</p>
<p>I received a likely letter in a thin, standard sized envelope. I'm not really sure if that counts though. And, yes- the other two were on rolling admissions.</p>
<p>likely letters do not count, and I presume your rolling letters were small because they wait untill they have the entire freshman class before sending out additional materials.</p>
<p>Fresco: Not everyone gets an interview. Brown tries to give every applicant an interview, but in some areas there are not enough alumni to cover everyone.</p>
<p>Matty B: Congratulations on your acceptance!</p>
<p>We do not do a 1-5 thing... it is much more casual than that. The interviewer just writes up a brief report (a few paragraphs) summarizing the contact.</p>
<p>The interviews are not a factor in admissions, though they are of importance to Brown for other reasons-- being personal in the process, answering an applicant's questions, etc. The interviews tend to confirm the comments of people who really know you well (teacher & GC recs) and your own comments (essays) which ARE very important. </p>
<p>Kids who apply to Brown are generally interesting, pleasant, and lots of fun to talk to... but most of them don't get in! Some kids I have just loved were not admitted, because Brown just gets too many incredible applicants to take all of them. </p>
<p>If a less stellar interviewee is admitted, I'd assume that either he or I had an off day, or that he was brilliant in some area I did not get to in the interview, or that he was simply shy. Think about it, not every incredibly worthwhile person you know is able to gab easily with a total stranger. </p>
<p>There is a certain luck of the draw in having a great interview. Usually the two people click because of common interests or similar personalities. If a shy biochemist meets a quirky fine arts major, this might not produce interview nirvana. Brown understands this.</p>
<p>Good luck to all...</p>
<p>most of my admissions letter have been in thin envelopes---let's see 4/5 so far</p>
<p>What schools send acceptances in thin envelopes? All four of my acceptances so far have come in bigger envelopes...</p>
<p>Georgetown EA came in a standard envelope for me. UNC, too. And UVM was a slightly larger one but thin, but then again UVM never uses standard envelopes.</p>