<p>Yeah, that’s what I was thinking : maybe Brown sent out the emails to the others just now, to throw us all off, after this thread came to Brown’s attention, LOL.</p>
<p>^ hahaha!! for all we know a student who probably works in the admissions office probably saw this thread and the other one and relayed it to the staff. Then again that’s just my paranoia talking :P</p>
<p>Or maybe they send it in rounds after you were admitted! Hahaha! I don’t know, none of us do! Let’s just wait and not let our paranoia get the best of us (although it easily could)!</p>
<p>We are all logical people. Without the freakout let’s logically consider this a PR move until we are otherwise informed! While I know I want it to be a likely (lord knows I do) I just don’t think that it is! SO we’re waiting!</p>
<p>I do not believe that this is a “likely” or even a variant of the same because you can “unsubscribe” from the email at the bottom. If the communication meant something, I don’t think the admissions office would want you unsubscribing from it, as they would intend future communications to follow, yes? At the same time, the email does present Brown in a wonderful light and its grads doing good deeds, such that one would easily want to identify with the institution and the people – no doubt the purpose of the email. In this light, it does seem a bit cruel to enlighten and encourage heightened interest among applicants, only to reject them in a month. I can’t see the purpose in that. I can only really see the marketing utility of the message and its blandishments as being relevant to those who have been admitted in order to further convince them to choose Brown. Letting those who have no chance for Brown (90% of applicants) see these marvelous things they will miss and people they are unlikely to emulate is a little puzzling to me, even though the message is very well done and nicely pro-Brown.</p>
<p>Haven’t gotten anything…hoping for a third round of e-mails…LOL
If anything it’ll make me feel better haha</p>
<p>zomgg - me neither. It might be based on the order they read applications; I sent in mine at the very end of December. No reason to freak out, though. Reading these threads is almost entertaining.</p>
<p>^maybe not? I got the email and sent my application on december 28th. </p>
<p>i dont think this is any indication of anything…if you go to the likely letter thread, someone got their likely letter a few weeks ago but only got the life after brown email today…</p>
<p>now if the hypotheses about being admitted if you receive this email were true, then this person would have gotten this email in the first round, which they didnt…
so really i think it’s just a PR move.
and they still dont know who they’re admitting…they’re probably just starting committees or whatnot</p>
<p>I don’t see how it could be anything other than a PR move, haha. Quit hypothesizin’. You’re makin’ people nervous :S</p>
<p>A large percentage of applicants files have at this point still not been decided on, or maybe even not been fully “read” so it would be premature to assume that this letter is anything more than a “junk mail” encouragement.
Regarding the letter back to a student’s recommendation letter writer, admissions often sends some sort of similar note to anyone who writes these sort of supplement recommendations who has a tie to Brown (=alumni). A way of letting them feel heard, but not promising anything. (and it does not indicate any more chance of getting in.)</p>
<p>BrownAlum is right! Does this e-mail make it suck even more if rejected? YES! Does this e-mail say you’ve been admitted or are “likely” to be admitted? NO! Nothing is promised or REALLY suggested by the e-mail.</p>
<p>The only thing that throws me for a loop which is why everyone is digging into it so much is why not all applicants got the e-mail. Not like it was personalized or anything, but it stands to reason that if it was only spam it would have gone to everyone, but who really knows with this stuff. </p>
<p>Anyone feel like calling admissions and asking what the e-mail means? Haha ;)</p>
<p>I just find it odd that at this stage of the game - about a month prior to decisions - an e-mail such as this would be sent to some applicants and not others. It is a little crazy making.</p>
<p>Its called a marketing. Most universities are using either outside sources or internal sources now to keep their name front and center in front of the applicant. We were told this by a visiting college admissions rep when D was going through the process 3 years ago at “college admissions night”. I would not read anything into it.</p>
<p>D got likely letter today. She has one from Dartmouth, too. Which school?</p>
<p>tfairy - she should go to Dartmouth. That would leave a space open for my S!! LOL!</p>
<p>tfairy, can you make a thread with a title along the lines of like “What a likely letter REALLY looks like” and write what the letter said so that all these fools can see how ridiculous this whole thing is. The language in that thing will make it clear how meaningless these other e-mails are.</p>
<p>I have not gotten ANY emails from Brown ):</p>
<p>I started thinking that maybe, as suggested in the thread by others, they do send the email only after they have read the application - and that would explain why different people received it at different times. But I just have some difficulty understanding WHY they would do it that way; so I still have lingering doubts (and some wishful hope about it). Most likely it IS a marketing thing, and whoever still hasn’t received the email didn’t receive it because it went into their SPAM folder OR it they didn’t receive it due to a glitch in the automated email marketing system??? Ahhhh…well, we just have to hang in there a few more weeks…</p>
<p>I thought it would eventually come, but it turns out that I never received this e-mail afterall. I received another e-mails from the admission though. D:</p>
<p>Do we know how many we’re sent out at the time ?</p>
<p>No way to ascertain how many of these Brown Promo emails were going out and to whom since there were just some reported on CC and that was it. I know my sophomore who will apply to Brown in two years and will face the same nail-biting wait that her Big Bro is right now has very clear opinions on these emails if they are not sorta-likely letters. She says they are cruel to get up hope about Life After Brown when there is no promise of a life with Brown. I concur. My son got a weird one yesterday from UC Berkeley’s Alumni Office, inviting him to some leadership retreat IF he gets accepted tomorrow. What is with that? They could have waiting until AFTER he was accepted to tell him instead of getting his hopes up and then possibly dashing them all over the place. Anyway, everyone, the long slog is almost over and you each will have your answers soon enough. You’ll have wonderful choices, whatever they are, so celebrate.</p>