<p>I got a letter in the mail today from Ruth Simmons’ office. It says Brown is great, Brown is great, you make a strong candidate, Brown is great, Brown is great.</p>
<p>Did everyone else doing early decision get this letter?</p>
<p>Does it mean I made the first cut? Or does it just mean they received my application?</p>
<p>I don’t think it means anything, to be honest. I received the same one earlier this summer prior to having even started my application, so I would take it with a grain of salt. Ivys send out copious amounts of letters like that one to a wide array of people, whether they wind up applying or not.</p>
<p>In short, it does not have any connection to your application. When you get your login information to track your application, THEN you know that you application has been received. As far as making the first cut goes, nobody ever knows that.</p>
<p>Good luck! =]</p>
<p>I got one of those after I took my PSATs! Agreed, DC - just some belated promotion. Although it is always a nice feeling to get those kinds of things right about now!</p>
<p>I got one and I am a RD. The exact same one! It said </p>
<p>“Your record of accomplishment to date convinces us that you have the talent and initiative to be a very strong candidate for admission to Brown - and that you, in turn would benifit significantly by attending college with us here.”</p>
<p>I did my interview in October and I’m Regular Decision.</p>
<p>I got that too. . . around August of this year.</p>
<p>I feel as if they send them out to a lot of people but selected people, maybe people who applied early or maybe they actually scanned our application and like what they saw. This, however, is no likely letter but an advertisment that got me excited at first :(</p>
<p>No lovesbrownu, they are not tied to anything as far as your application, as you can plainly read above people got them based on PSAT scores alone. Colleges send them to a broad demographic they want to apply, since the more they have the choose from the more they can make the class what they want it to be.</p>
<p>well how do you explain that i got one and never took a psat.</p>
<p>because it isn’t solely tied to the PSAT lol</p>
<p>I realize its just an advertisement but you know it’s just the fact you trying to gain a tiny bit of hope from cross-examining everything you recieve from Brown and the tiny details you put on your application. It is a chance that none of us might get into brown so we need as much hope as we can get. People be thinking more about the percentage of people they accept but when you thing of the percentage they do not accept you see the truth behind your mind’s opaque view of things. Last year the did not accept about 90% of their applicants!</p>
<p>@lovesbrownu,</p>
<p>I don’t think wolfmanjack ever claimed Brown accepts a large percentage of applicants. He merely said that they try and increase the size of their applicant pool through advertisements. That’s certainly not an “opaque view of things.” Actually, it’s a significantly more honest “view of things” than deluding oneself based upon a common advertisement ploy. </p>
<p>It’s great to remain hopeful, but we need to keep a grip on reality.</p>
<p>What i am trying to say is that we are stressed about admissions and in order to relax we examine everything to closely to ease our nerves, giving us hope that the letter from the president and other things are more than just advertisments. We examine our application and get yourself into the mind set that you might be the 10% that gets in. But we still have to remember in this delusion that we could be the 90% who get denied. So i was basically saying i am using the letter from the president as a tool to ease my stress and give me some hope in a very unlikely situation!</p>
<p>Even if the letter is false hope?</p>