<p>If applicants are still getting rejection letters now, it sounds as if their original plan to send out notification letters on May 15 and June 15 has gone by the wayside. Anyone else out there still hanging?</p>
<p>I am but I am an international applicant. They probably sent out my rejection letter but the mail service hasn't delivered it yet. Gave up hopes long ago</p>
<p>I'm still hanging on, quite depressed though. I literally have the physics department, chair and everything, battling with admissions to have me accepted, although it doesn't look good. I mean, the department was battling for me during the regular pool and look how that turned out. So, I am happy that I haven't received letter yet, and unhappy that I must wait just that longer.</p>
<p>Got the letter today.</p>
<p>Got it today too... Kinda sad right now. The officer i called today told me they rejected all people on the waitlist. I'm just mad b/c this year has just been so unlucky for people who applied for the bigger names since every school is overwhelmed with applications...</p>
<p>My son got a letter from Brown today saying they are removing his name from the wait list "in order to allow you to make definite plans as early as possible." The letter also said that the Board of Admission wants him to consider a transfer application next year. Did everyone else get that suggestion? Anyone? Apparently there's no need in the class for a southern (Atlanta), trumpet-playing, caucasian boy. He is also wait listed at UChicago and Bowdoin. But I believe he will happily go to Oberlin.</p>
<p>well, at least we're all in the same boat together.</p>
<p>I came home today to find my letter waiting for me. Made me sad, but I'm trying to be optimistic. I'm going to Swarthmore next year, and I'm hoping I love it. I met a lot of people at Ride the Tide (Swat preview days) who were waitlisted or rejected by Brown, and they were all smart, dynamic, and friendly, so I'm not feeling too depressed. Sigh. Alright, I'm a little depressed. Good luck to everyone next year wherever you all end up!</p>
<p>I am kind of happy. I came home to a regular sized, yet stuffed envelope from Brown. It says I have been deferred, taken off the wait list, and guaranteed admission for the class of 2011. This is kind of cool, yet they say that I cannot attend Brown unless I choose to take a year off. Now this sucks. I don't get it, why don't they just accept me as a transfer next year, so I at least don't miss a year of study. I just don't know what to do???</p>
<p>That's really weird. I've never heard of that happening before. You should call them and ask about the transfer thing.</p>
<p>And then I just called my contact at the physics department, who said they were able to get me accepted because they department pushed my case up in the administration. Yet he was under the impression that I got accepted for class of 2010, so he's extremely confused, the department is extremely confused, and i'm extremely confused. He says he will look into this, which i suppose is a good thing. I just don't see why they can't open up a single spot.</p>
<p>Opening up a spot for you is giving you priority over every single other person on the waiting list, seemingly simply because you have a contact in the physics department (not to mention that Brown has already sent out letters to everyone on the list saying that they are not accepting anyone off the list - it would be a bit of a double standard, don't you think?). You should be more than thrilled that you have a guaranteed place in the class of 2011 - not many people are offered this opportunity. Enjoy taking a gap year, do something meaningful and worthwhile, and then enter Brown in the fall of '07 ready and raring to go. There are much worse options, like not going to Brown at all.</p>
<p>If keeping up with study is important to you, take some intro classes at the local university (just don't transfer the credits). I bet that if you spoke to some professors at Brown before you attended, explained the situation and what you were going to do, you may be able to skip the intros once you get to Brown. Just an idea, I don't know if it would work or not and you wouldn't be ahead in credits (you'd probably still have to graduate in 2011), but you could take advantage of many of the more interesting classes at Brown.</p>
<p>I grant that and appreciate your advice, although I just can't see me taking a gap year, despite how much I would love to attend the school. And in the event that I do take a gap year, which would be slim unless brown offers me a significant fin aid package, I would probably spend my time working in a physics lab. Perhaps I can even work on campus, which would be ideal. So I am indeed happy about the opportunity, yet the odds of my taking it are virtually naught unless everything goes right.</p>
<p>Anyone else out there who still haven't heard anything?</p>
<p>MERCER10: Where are you planning to go?</p>
<p>There is a discussion on this in the parents' forum....</p>
<p>Good question. I have until Friday to decide. I put my deposit down on the University of Rochester, and do like the school; however, I like Brown much more. The only catch is taking a year off, which is quite a thing to decide to do considering the short period of time. I am a science guy, and I have been reviewing "Gap year" programs and found absolutely nothing "sciency." Therefore, I essentially have to plan the next year in this next week if I want to go to Brown.</p>
<p>same thing happened to one of my friends--she got taken off the waitlist and deffered for admission in 2011--and she doesn't have any internal contacts.. i guess that they're doing it because they're not using the waitlist</p>
<p>it would be interesting to find out her decsion, and thoughts..</p>
<p>I'm in the same boat here too...and though I never thought of myself as someone who would take a gap year, I have a feeling that this could be the best thing that ever happened to me! It'll be great to go into a uni like Brown with some experience of "life"...hopefully I can take some part time courses at McGill which is where I was planning to go since I was so keen on having some time in Montreal...and then travel a bit to do some service projects...after all, when you look back down the line, graduating a year later really isn't going to set you back much at all...</p>