<p>You have indicated on your application to Brown University that you would be applying for financial aid. While the Admissions office reviews your admission application, we, in the Office of Financial Aid, would like to make sure we have the correct information to provide you a financial aid evaluation, if you were to be admitted to Brown.</p>
<p>Please read the following carefully as our office is in need of additional information and/or clarification from you regarding the application materials you have submitted thus far:</p>
<p>Please note that this request is independent of any decision ultimately made by the Office of Admissions in regard to your application for admission to the University. Thank you for your assistance in this matter. If you have any questions concerning this request, please contact our office at _______________ or respond directly to this email. </p>
<p>"Please note that this request is independent of any decision ultimately made by the Office of Admissions in regard to your application for admission to the University. "</p>
<p>There’s your answer. Boy, reading is hard stuff. lol j/k</p>
<p>Haha I know. Just wondering why they’d ask for this kind of information 6 days before decisions were sent out. Seems like if you were rejected then this would be unnecessary.</p>
<p>Remember Brown is need-blind, so I would assume that the FinAid dept. operates independently of the admissions office UNTIL they receive the official list of accepted students.</p>
<p>The only way I’d see this as a sign is if you were an international student as Brown is need aware for int’l students</p>
<p>If Brown is need-blind, then the Financial Office would not need to form packages for each of the 25,000+ applicants, unless they were admitted. Need-blind could mean that now they’re assembling packages for admitted students. At least that’s how I viewed it. I’m not international, btw.</p>
<p>hmmm it makes sense, but I doubt they had one round of reviewing applications and by that I mean Brown prob did an initial round of admissions where the 25,000+ applicant pool decreased and then probably when they reached the 2nd round they told the FinAid dept to begin estimating. Then again this is all conjecture, I’m just another anxious applicant like you.</p>
<p>If it means anything, I got the same email about a week ago and received a likely a few days later. I think if you received that email you’d have to at least be down to the final “rounds.”</p>
<p>Hahah I don’t think getting this has ANYTHING to do with admission. We just had some things missing from financial aid and it happens they told us.</p>
<p>I didn’t have anything missing. My forms have all been submitted on time. My email asked me to clarify a specific line from my FAFSA. Hopefully this means they’re looking closely at my finances and needed a clarification before they finished my package. Wishful thinking, I’m sure. :/</p>
<p>Do you honestly think that you could find out whether or not you were admitted based on financial aid emails? Then the Ivies might as well tell you whether or not you admitted. Why has a desicion date at all if that is the case.</p>
<p>Logically, why would the Financial Aid Office compile a financial aid package if a student wasn’t to be admitted?</p>
<p>However, I am unsure whether or not the Financial Aid Office compiles all financial aid packages incase any applicant is admitted. Seems like a waste of time, but in the email it indicates the office are separate. Hopefully, someone with more expertise in this area can respond, but your logic make senses.</p>
<p>Once you receive your decision please update this thread because I am curious to see if this “means” anything.</p>
<p>Well, if this method has even the slightest drawback of disclosing an applicant’s admission decision before time, I’m sure the admissions office has figured out a way to balance this. My guess is they send this email to a handful of applicants that will be rejected just for the sake of balancing the whole “prediction” factor it brings. Anyhow, I didn’t get the email, and I’d like to think it means that there aren’t any issues with my financial information.</p>
<p>This is a wild guess on my part - but I have to believe that putting together a financial aid package (for most schools anyway?) is 90%+ automated and then a human being reviews and finalizes it.</p>
<p>But even if my percentage guess is wrong, they need to make sure the file is complete so that if someone is admitted they can put the package together ASAP after the admission decisions are released.</p>
<p>I just noticed my previous comment made no sense because I did not see the page two… -_- But I got a similar email and @Avidstudent. I will also post what happens on thursday so we can get some more stats into this post.</p>