<p><—waitlisted as well.</p>
<p>Now we play the waiting game.</p>
<p>Where are you all going to attend if brown doesn’t accept you?</p>
<p>I’m between Northwestern, Tufts, and UVa. Hoping to figure it out this month.</p>
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My son will most likely be attending Northwestern.</p>
<p>Waitlisted here at Brown, as well as at Dartmouth, Penn, and Harvard.</p>
<p>Waitlisted at Brown! Gah. Will be attending Pomona, Rice, or Johns Hopkins if they don’t accept me.</p>
<p>lol my thoughts exactly, russiaruns123 (: 2 more spots for us waitlisters. Thanks for the link to waitlist advice, i<em>wanna</em>be_Brown. I’ll take a look!</p>
<p>Waitlisted here, too. I’m going to have to seriously look at attending if I get off of Brown’s waitlist; same goes for Dartmouth.</p>
<p>However, I’m really excited to attend either Rice, Vanderbilt, or UVa in the fall as well, so I really can’t complain about my situation.</p>
<p>If I don’t get off the wait list, it’s going to come down to either Penn, UChicago, or JHU. Though Brown has that liberal relaxed feel and that grade inflation that make it so appealing. I really hope I get accepted off of the wait list.</p>
<p>waitlisted too! 
i really want to go to brown…
if i don’t get off the waitlist, im probably going to go to berkeley or emory</p>
<p>Brown has grade inflation??</p>
<p>anyone care an approximation of how many people they will admit off the waitlist this year? Going to tufts if i dont get off :(</p>
<p>Like most schools it varies year to year and that is why they tell you it’s hard to predict. If I were to guess a range I would say between 1 and 10%. The problem is that you are competing with all deserving candidates as opposed to the RD process where many apply without the strength in EC’s or test scores and GPA.</p>
<p>Based on previous years, and that seeing lower admit numbers (as with some other similar schools, presumably to avoid “over-enrolling” this year), my educated guess is that it will be a bit more than in past years. But that still means it could be anywhere from 10-50 students. It all depends on how many accept vs go elsewhere.</p>
<p>I know a few people who have turned down Brown to go to Columbia/Penn/Dartmouth, so this means more spots have opened up, hopefully enough will be eventually available to admit a good number of us.</p>
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Brown assumes a certain number of accepted students will go elsewhere, so the waitlist is used only if more than they expect go elsewhere. As BrownAlumParent mentioned, recent admissions trends suggest that this will happen to some extent, but the existence of students that turn down Brown don’t guarantee it’ll happen.</p>
<p>With that said, good luck to all of you, whether you’re my fellow students here next year or you end up at one of the numerous excellent colleges you’ve listed in this thread. Do your best wherever you may end up.</p>
<p>I took a spot on the waitlist and if offered admittance will definitely consider it. Though, Bard gave me a fabulous scholarship that will be hard to turn down. Does anyone know if they send you a financial aid package when they offer you a spot?</p>
<p>Officially, how many people actually is on the waitlist? Does anyone know how they pick the ppl off the waitlist?</p>
<p>@101mutts: You’ll get a financial aid letter at the same time your acceptance letter arrives.</p>
<p>@RedRobin23: Traditionally, about 500 or so choose to stay on the list out of ~1000+.</p>
<p>:/ So nervewracking. Waitlisted here, Columbia and Penn and just getting around to writing my waitlist letters. Does anyone know how much time they give us to make a decision? I never got up to visit Brown (I sort of threw it in last minute to the schools I was applying to, and in the process of writing my “Why Brown” discovered it was a really good fit for me), so if somehow I got in off the waitlist, I’d like to take a visit. If not, headed to the College of William and Mary–it’s very far away from my home, and probably not in the same league academically as Brown or my waitlisted schools, but it’s a good fit for a history major and I got a good financial aid package =) </p>
<p>If its a comfort to anyone, I know a physics major from Northern NJ who was accepted but will not be attending.</p>
<p>It’s been over 5 years since I went through this, but I believe I had 2 weeks to make a decision.</p>
<p>^I don’t think I had that long to make a decision two years ago; I think it was a few days (a week tops). It probably depends on the time they notify you though. I ended up not visiting before accepting the offer; I went with my gut feeling.</p>