<p>It’s from my regional admissions officer… I believe that the decisions that were sent yestarday were for students that are not going to be taken off of the waiting list, and a handful of students are still in consideration…</p>
<p>I wish they would just email us because I NEVER get my mail on time due to forwarding.</p>
<p>And floralromper,</p>
<p>Is your regional officer Natasha Go?</p>
<p>that’s looking good for you dan! & floralromper, I think cc9315 may be correct; I remember seeing something that indicated that Cali usually has quite a few admits</p>
<p>Meh, I really hope there are at least a few acceptances among those letters that they sent out. It would be so nice to get this process done with and to not have to keep it going another few weeks.</p>
<p>I just got off Amherst’s waitlist today! They gave me a week to decide, so I’m hoping Brown will give me a conclusion sometime before then D:</p>
<p>This is so ambiguous and conflicting…</p>
<p>Nooo Louis Trujillo</p>
<p>@floralromper, how did your regional admissions officer tell you about high yield rate? Called or just sent you an email? And also, if everything in that letter to Dan is right, why then only floralromper was notified that he/she will not be admitted and others still don’t know anything?</p>
<p>My email said “as of today” meaning that they have just started to send the letters on may 14th(the day I got my email). In a few days must people will have their decisions…</p>
<p>@duda94 - I’m Aussie 
Where are you from?</p>
<p>@DAN2233 - You are soooo lucky! Who’s your regional officer? Where do you live? We might have the same officer - that is if you’re international of course.</p>
<p>How do internationals get notified? Mail usually takes about 2 weeks to get here. Would they email me? I REALLY HOPE THEY DO! I’ll die waiting.</p>
<p>@ecieee - Cool! I’m Brazilian!!
@youwrtotethis - man, congrats on Amherst!! It’s suuuuuch a nice place!</p>
<p>and well… If any of you hears from brown… please writeeeee!</p>
<p>@duda94 I’m Brazilian as well!! Boa sorte pra voc</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten any updates from my “sources,” but I am using some common sense here. Brown would not use snail mail to accept anyone off the wait list. They typically call. Look at it from their perspective – why would they rely on the slow and sometimes unreliable mail system for this, when they want this to be resolved as quickly as possible.</p>
<p>As I reported earlier, and floralromper and dan confirm, Brown is not going to the wait list this year, although there may be a handful of exceptions.</p>
<p>@fireandrain I’d think that too, but the mail that came that says “you’re on the wait list” also says “you’ll be notified by mail with our decision.” And if there are a “handful of exceptions,” doesn’t that mean they’re going to use the wait list?</p>
<p>My take on that sentence is that it means that after calling you, they send you information in the mail. But the first notification of being offered a spot would happen through a phone call. (Sometimes that phone call goes to your guidance counselor first, actually.)</p>
<p>Obviously if one person gets in off the wait list they used it. But if only a few kids get off, and if they are offered admission for Sept. 2013 – for all intents and purposes they really aren’t using the wait list. </p>
<p>I should add, by the way, that I really really doubt that anyone at Brown admissions parses their sentences for meaning and context the way you all do!</p>
<p>That’s upsetting 
you still think only specific gaps will be filled, correct? Do you think that would be more along the lines of 2-3 acceptances or like 15?</p>
<p>@jcbaltazar uhuuul! I’m from Sao Paulo! and congrats on Amherst too!! Where are you from?</p>
<p>also, I do have to share something with you guys.
Brown posts - every year - a “general 2010-2011” or, in our case “2011-2012” information PDF about that year’s class. You can easily find that by entering “Brown Admissions” website and searching “General 2010-2011”. Just for the sake of doing so - I didn’t think there would be any infos concerning class of 2016, I researched “General Info 2011-2012” and it happened to be online! ( it is not anymore, which is weird, but I assume it is because they are updating the number of people on their waitlist and taken off it ) So, by that day, ( after May 1st ) they had 1507 people enrolled. Which means, with the use of simple math, they would be taking around 8 off waitlist - considering they have 1515 spots available. However, people might withdraw enrollment, as Columbia and Yale have been contacting their waitlistees, and as Harvard will do so next week. Also, if anyhow you want to check General Info 2010-2011 you’ll see that out of 1550 people they waitlisted, 650 accepted their spot at it and 32 got accepted. ( That does not take z-listeds into account, I suppose). And, considering that last year they had 1501 people enrolled after May 1st, I believe we do have a chance. That is, number-speaking.</p>
<p>It is indeed a small number, howeveeeer, - I don’t know if there is such a sentence in the US or in other countries around the world, but, in Brazil we say: “Hope is the last one to die”.</p>
<p>I just spoke with admissions, and they confirmed that there are acceptances among the letters that they just sent out. They also confirmed that every student has been sent one, and that if a student has still not received one by the end of next week then there has likely been a mailing error and that they should call the admission office. But there ARE acceptances among the letters that were just sent out.</p>
<p>After the call, I came here to post the news and saw that there had been more discussion about whether those acceptances would only be z-list, so I called admissions back to ask if there would be 2016 acceptances among those letters, or only z-lists. This time I got transferred to the less helpful woman who had previously refused to disclose any information, and she did likewise. At one point it seemed like she even denied knowing of the z-list program, and she said that if she had any information about it she could not disclose it. Basically, she just said that we’ll know when we get our letters, and until then she can’t say anything.</p>
<p>Verdict:
Some acceptances have been mailed, but unclear whether for 2016, z-list, or both. Everyone should be receiving a decision by the end of next week at the latest.</p>
<p>Data sheet referenced above is here: <a href=“Office of Institutional Research | Brown University”>Office of Institutional Research | Brown University;
<p>@cc9315 thanks man! That was helpful!
I AM SOOOO NERVOUSSSSSSS!</p>