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Seriously, your going to whine about this when you answered your own question. Stop whining, your a senior.</p>
<p>It is in the Brandeis forum, as well as the Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, University of Chicago, and Princeton University forums…</p>
<p>it’s a crapshoot, there’s no reasonable explanation…it just happened. sorry, maybe april is not your lucky month.</p>
<p>anyway, congrats on Brandeis</p>
<p>Brandeis is known for its diversity of ideas and avid pursuit of global perspective (very similar to Tufts in that sense). So, no, I don’t think it was descrimination.</p>
<p>My daughter didn’t face discrimination. She is Muslim and clearly mentioned it in her essays. She was accepted at Tufts and Brandeis, and Brandeis invited her to be a Lerman-Neubauer Fellow, which is only offered to about 15 incoming freshman- we thought they offered it to her because she <em>is</em> a Muslim and would add diversity.
However she won’t be attending either as she chose another school over those two.</p>
<p>Her (Muslim) friend from the next town over was also accepted at Brandeis.</p>
<p>Well that sucks. College decisions have a large randomness factor. She should just stop thinking about it. If she got into Princeton, Dartmouth, UChicago, etc, I dont know why she feels the need to nitpick Brandeis. This looks like an ego issue. Maybe she should have been rejected everywhere else too…</p>
<p>I know this is an old thread but I am bumping it so students in the next application cycle may see it – Brandeis is NOT a discriminatory institution. I was accepted with lower stats than OP and I wrote my essay about growing up in a Muslim household and I was accepted. Please do not refrain from applying to Brandeis because you fear that Brandeis will discriminate against you - Brandeis is an incredibly open and diverse community, full of all cultures, including Middle Eastern/Arab. </p>