<p>Last night, brother read us everything that was in the acceptance letter from Brandeis. There was the acceptance and then a letter stating that we did not qualify for financial aid (we knew that would be the case but w/o the FA forms Brandeis will not consider an applicant for merit) and a letter telling us about Stafford Loans.</p>
<p>After we called our niece who graduated from Brandeis in '07 and had received a merit scholarship to go there. She did indicate that the merit letter was separate from her acceptance letter. In fact in her case it was weird because the merit letter came BEFORE the acceptance letter.</p>
<p>It would be nice to know what the usual timeline is since an applicant doesn't get a letter stating that they are NOT begin offered merit but only if they are.</p>
<p>Again, those are amazing stats! Must've been your D's shoo-in school with those kinds of grades! Congrats (to both of you!)</p>
<p>That's weird...I don't understand why merit letters would come before the acceptance letter. I wish we could know the timeline as well...</p>
<p>My son is still waiting for Brandeis's letter...we live outside Mass., and so the letter is somewhere in the Post Office and won't be delievered until Tuesday/Wednesday...</p>
<p>the year my child was admitted, the merit letter was enclosed with the acceptance letter.
i think you can drive yourself crazy trying to figure out what they are going to do based on what they did in the past.
if you really want to know when merit notification is, contact the admissions office -- they are the only ones who can tell you what they are doing this year.</p>
<p>He's a good student, but it doens't reflect in his standardized testing. He's in the top 10% of class at a prestigious high school (3.92 GPA UW/ 32 ACT). He is active (and leader) in several clubs, student government for Volunteering Council, several hundred hours of volunteering at one place (he lives there, basically), did a research prgm</p>
<p>Brother (who drove home for us last night) is also Eagle Scout. He got it and the gold palm. I think that Eagle scout goes a long way on applications. Not only college Apps but also job applications. It comes up repeatedly. Your son will always be reminded of his accomplishment.</p>
<p>Sound like S is attending a good large school. Very nice options on his APs. Our HS tends to have the basics. No engineering or econ and certainly no way to have taken 17 total. Our school has only 9 possible, not all of them get offered every year, and as yet there is no way to take any before your Junior year.</p>
<p>I'm betting that he will have good news when S receives his letter from Brandeis. I can't imagine that he will not get in. Good luck!</p>
<p>One of my friends visited Brandeis today and after the information session he asked the presenter when we should expect our decisions and he said that they will probably come on Tuesday. (But I live in New York - Long Island, specifically... I don't know if it's the same for everywhere else.)</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: n/a</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 720 US History, 640 Literature</li>
<li>ACT: 31 composite (31 M, 31 W, 34 R, 27 S)</li>
<li>GPA: 94.7/100</li>
<li>Rank: top 12% in a class of about 550 (didn't report)</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essay: In my opinion, it was good. I showed it to some friends and parents and people thought it was very good.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: very good</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: good</li>
<li>Hook (if any): I am in a joint-enrollment program at the U. of West Georgia (The Advanced Academy of Georgia) (The</a> Advanced Academy of Georgia)</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: Georgia, United States</li>
<li>School Type: Public, Newsweek #279</li>
<li>Ethnicity:Eastern European/ white/ Jewish</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors: LOTS of ECs-- mostly community service</p>
<p>CONGRATS LBR! You certainly deserve to be into Brandeis with those scores. I assume that the list of ECs was too long to post...hopefully we have a similar result in our house as well :)</p>
<p>My letter said something about financial aid/scholarship but I'm not sure whether it was referring to merit-based or need-based, or maybe both of them.
Does anyone know which one(s) the letter informed us of?</p>
<p>There were students who were offered the opportunity to apply to Brandeis through a "special invitation" (D received her invite via e-mail on 9/4). These students had to apply through Brandeis' Application Online (NOT common ap) by December 15 and use a pre-assigned username and password. In turn there was no application fee and they were to be notified by Feb 15.</p>
<p>Thank you, I wonder how students were chosen to get this invitation?
Do you know what the regular decision notification date is?
I used Brandeis's Application Online too, is that a plus in terms of interest?</p>
<p>I have no idea on the number of invitations and I'd have to go to their site to find the notification date. I don't think that the Brandeis online vs common ap affects their evaluation of your application.</p>
<p>I see, I used their application since I figured if they still had their own, I might as well use it.
I heard that there were likely letters coming out from Brandeis?</p>