Official Brown 2016 WAITING Room (for wait-listers only)

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<p>Being on the waiting list sucks!!! Don’t you agree?.. :)</p>

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<p>me too!! so sad :(((</p>

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<p>Yup! How do we confirm our spot on the wait list? Can’t seem to find it on the portal…</p>

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<p>You should click on the waiting list Q ana A. It is a link inside in the letter.
Do any of you guys know how many waitlisters got accepted last year?.. I am also an international student does would this work against me?.. I have applied for a full ride…(stupid move lol… I guess I would have been accepted otherwise)…</p>

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<p>You should click on the waiting list Q and A. It is a link inside the letter…
Do any of you guys know how many waitlisters got accepted last year?.. I am also an international student would this work against me?.. I have applied for a full ride…(stupid move lol… I guess I would have been accepted otherwise)…</p>

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<p>I’m in this too… got rejected from all of the other Ivies that I applied to so this is my last hope D:</p>

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<p>For me, there was no link, and it said that the option to join the waitlist would show up tomorrow, March 30…</p>

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<p>Wait listed too : ( I sort of just wish this process was over.</p>

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<p>Ah wait listed as well. At least there’s still some hope!</p>

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<p>While I don’t want wait-listed student’s to give up totally on any hope (otherwise there would be no really true wait-list), and there will be some students who do get in from the wait list, I thought this post on FB might give you some perspective. Now, it is from someone who was there over 20 years ago, but I really don’t think things have gotten any easier for WL students.
In response to an alumni who mused if there was anything to get his child off the waitlist other than offering to build a building for Brown:
(Name has been retracted in case poster doesn’t want it known) : " spent my first year after Brown in the admission office and my recollection is that you have absolutely no input into whether your child will move off the waitlist. You can write a heartfelt letter, talk to the university president or have your senator make calls. It won’t matter, though you’ll get assurances that your child is being given every consideration. It’s a function of how many slots open up and whether your child is the best fit to complement the rest of the class that has already been admitted. The waitlist at that time was occasionally what it claimed to be, a marker designating a place in line to fill open slots, but more often, it was a communications device to signal sympathy to alumni parents or encouragement to schools who sent applicants who were not admitted. And sometimes it was a pool in which to hold kids whose parents did offer to build new buildings when their academically weak children were admitted mid-year."</p>

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<p>Waitlisted as well :confused: I don’t have any high hopes for admission but hey–at least this was easier to swallow than a rejection.</p>

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<p>This is several years old now but it might still be useful: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/328709-waitlist-advice.html?highlight=waitlist[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/328709-waitlist-advice.html?highlight=waitlist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>5th waitlist so far for me LOL.</p>

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<p>Brown Daily Herald Oct. 2011</p>

<p>[Waitlist</a> fluctuations make admittance unpredictable - The Brown Daily Herald - Serving the community daily since 1891](<a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/waitlist-fluctuations-make-admittance-unpredictable-1.2656856]Waitlist”>http://www.browndailyherald.com/waitlist-fluctuations-make-admittance-unpredictable-1.2656856)</p>

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<p>Can someone please post their waitlist notification?</p>

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<p>Hello all,
I’m a reporter with the Brown Daily Herald looking for applicants to interview.</p>

<p>Please contact me at irattner998@********** if you’re willing to speak.</p>

<p>Best,
Izzy</p>

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<p>That’s a gmail address.</p>

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<p>Waitlisted as well…it’s really disappointing. Does anyone have a copy of the Q&A letter that was enclosed in the wait list letter? It had like all sorts of advice and what to send/what not to send and what not…I can’t seem to access it on the Brown website anymore.</p>

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<p>So I have done several calculations and I need your help to know if they make sense :)… 2760 students were accepted. In general Brown has ~150 international students in its class. I assume that Brown accepts more internationals then 150 because of the yield and I would say that around 240 get in(I believe that the International yield is higher than US applicants yield… Do you think I am right?..). If that is the case then pure logic tells me that there are for a fact less than 240 International waitlisters becuase there is no point of assuming that no International applicant will attend. Of those on the waiting list about a third(or more I believe) are accepted to other places and have better FA there(knowing that only 50 internationals get a full ride) so at the end we have around 60-70 internationals on the wait list. What do you think?..</p>

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<p>I second jericb. I can’t seem to access it, either.</p>