<p>They probably do view deferred students with some preference, especially if you wrote to them telling them that they are your first choice still. </p>
<p>They have enough housing and stuff to enlarge the class?</p>
<p>I would imagine they do...aside from the standard dorms, Brown owns several on-campus and off-campus apartments.</p>
<p>Off campus apartments are primarily for graduate students, but because they never fill up completely, Brown will probably encourage more upperclassmen to live off campus in university-owned housing.</p>
<p>Reading all this is giving me a heart attack... you guys know how to make a man's blood pressure rise like crazy whoa O.O</p>
<p>Here's something I just realized though.
Although brown is off schedule, don't they still have to follow the Ivy agreement which says they must mail decisions on the same day (April 1)?</p>
<p>Yeah, I wondered about that too. Maybe it doesn't apply if it's later?</p>
<p>I think you are right about the later thing. The goal of the agreement is to make sure that no one can send acceptances very early and get all of the top students. Sending them out later could possibly lead to a lower yield. If they think it through that way then they would either admit more students to account for a drop in yield, or get their work together and push everything back into the correct time line. The way I put it just makes me feel much better. I just wish I believed everything I just wrote.</p>
<p>I'm surprised that a secretary would share so much information. Not that it's confidential or anything but typically they are close lipped just because of the amout of time they would spend on the phone with all of those questioning and nervous applicants. Usually the response is "check the website." You mentioned specific name in subsequent posts. What is your "hook" to get all this info?</p>
<p>I understand how you feel bluejay...and although I am waiting to enter Brown just as you, not only am I in my 30's (yes, I am going to Brown to finish my undergrad degree), but my aunt is the neighbor of the mentioned secretary (not that it's anything special).
For whatever reason, sometimes I can pry information out of the admissions committees (I guess they are happy to have a conversation with another adult for once, but who knows...:)
Honestly, I'm not attempting to be a "hot-shot". These boards and all of your posts have helped me out a great deal the last several months and so I wanted to do what I could for these threads...
Even though I am an adult student transferring into Brown (as a junior), I am not considered a "traditional" transfer student (becuase of my age), so my timeline is the same as you guys (and gals). Anyway, I sincerely hope WE ALL get in. I was given permission by Anne Swartz (secretary) to call her and check the status of the Admissions Committee's progress/timeline every other day or so. If I receive new information, I will post it on these boards to keep everyone updated...</p>
<p>Thanks Thomas! </p>
<p>I just hope it turns out that we hear sooner... this waiting is killing me! :(</p>
<p>i just found out the director of admissions lives in my town, whoaaa</p>
<p>If Brown sends likely letters, will they come late too...or were they already sent?</p>
<p>I don't think Brown does likely letters.</p>
<p>No they don't. They just do "Accepted" :) and the ever dreadful, "DENIED" letters :(</p>
<p>I may try and call them tomorrow to see where the admissions staff is on their timeline.</p>
<p>Calidan, remember, if you and I get in, I owe you and a bunch of other people lunch...:)</p>
<p>Hey Thomas, if you don't mind me asking, what interrupted your education? I'm just curious.</p>
<p>lol I would never pass up a veritable "free" lunch;)</p>
<p>Rabo...aside from having to continue to work right out of high school to support myself, I suffer from Tourette's syndrome (it's hereditary in my family). During my years in college, my "tics" grew increasingly more severe. Eventually I had to take medication to reduce them, but it made it to where it was hard to concentrate in school, so I had to stop going. Although I still suffer from Tourette's, the involuntary "tics" have greatly depleted over last few years, so I am able to feel "normal" again. It really made me insecure for a long time, especially in high school and college. However, I never got to a point to where I was screaming profanity and curse words out loud :)...that's a different form of it.</p>
<p>you forgot the horrible limbo-ness that is WAITLISTED!</p>