<p>If they’re mentioning May 15th now over the phone, I would leave it alone until this Friday or early next week. I’d be shocked if we heard tomorrow or Thursday.</p>
<p>@app2013 I agree</p>
<p>I think the reason why they have been delaying the original date lies in the fact that they overestimated the number of transfers they would be able to admit this year.</p>
<p>Brown recently had a record high number of freshman students accept their offers. As such, some of the transfer applicants the admissions board originally planned to admit before all of the freshman replies came rolling in have to be reconsidered.</p>
<p>Hopefully, they don’t have to retract on too many people they initially wanted to admit.</p>
<p>greeeeeeat.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about it! Freshman yield rate shouldn’t affect us.</p>
<p>I do think there’s truth to that. Okay thank you @browntransfer99!</p>
<p>Brown specifically tries to cultivate a transfer community. I don’t think the yield rate will affect us much. Especially because retention rates are always super high at Brown.</p>
<p>Are transfer seats based on the number of freshman/sophomore drop-outs? Meaning are the number of seats available for sophomore admission based on the number of freshman that have left the school, and then number of seats for junior admission based on the number of sophomores who have dropped?</p>
<p>If so, then whatever is happening with those who will enter as freshmen for fall 2013 should not affect any of us.</p>
<p>The size of the freshman class has absolutely nothing to do with OUR transfer class…it affects people who apply next year for sophomore admission…</p>
<p>While the freshman offer acceptance rate doesn’t usually factor in heavily on transfer admissions, it will unfortunately influence some decision making given THIS year specifically since Brown heard back from record number.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, I hope all on this blog receives an admission offer to Brown.</p>
<p>Would you explain your logic behind that conclusion please transva12? the conclusion that record freshman admission yield affects those applying for soph and junior admission currently.</p>
<p>@ 2013transfer. Precisely.</p>
<p>Very simple. Lets look at it from an economic standpoint. </p>
<p>There are only a limited supply of precious resources available ( seats in a classroom). Now when you have a record number of students incoming who have a higher relative priority to that of the transfer students, you are not able to allocate as much of that limited resource to transfer applicants. </p>
<p>Not albeit Brown probably had some predetermined quota of transfer students they wished to admit, but given the new I formation coming in as we speak they had to change their methodologies a bit, in essence call an audible.</p>
<p>Now you might argue as someone a few posts ago that Brown assertively strives to cultivate a transfer community. I don’t disagree with this notion, I just believe it doesn’t occur argue expense of the university and their ultimate goal of preserving the extreme selectivity of Brown. Because after all they could totally ignore the rate and admit the same number of transfer applicants, but this would not reflect on the intimacy of a campus with less than six thousand undergraduate students.</p>
<p>Alright transva12, but do you see how this is irrelevant to fall 2013 transfer admission?</p>
<p>You’re right, there are only a limited number of seats for each class ('16, ‘15, etc.). I higher yield for freshman admission for fall 2013 means that there are less seats available in the class of ‘17. This is only significant at this point to those on the freshman waitlist. The classes of 16’ and 15’ for which we are applying are not affected.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you’re wrong. The amount of freshman has nothing to do with the amount of sophomores and juniors. Next year, if it’s even true that they have a record class, they will take fewer transfers. This year, taking fewer transfers would do nothing. Introductory classes will still be too full (transfer generally don’t take those anyway), and if they accept fewer transfers, upper level classes will be underfilled. I think it’s MUCH more likely universities see this as a way to increase revenues for one year and just reduce the number of transfers admitted to the overfilled class. </p>
<p>The only way I can imagine it affecting us is with financial aid…if they take a larger freshman class, there will probably be less aid for us.</p>
<p>His mistake was simple but important. He assumes that seats at brown are one resource where in reality seats are stratified across freshman and sophomore etc because they each have separate housing and to large extent occupy different levels of classes. They are in reality four fairly separate resources.</p>
<p>If anyone wants to call for a decision or for information on letters being sent out I would personally appreciate it. Looking at the 2012 and 2011 B transfer threads it seems that even within a single day some callers are successful and some are not (I guess it really depends on to whom you speak)</p>
<p>@NuiNui thank you…that’s really true. I called earlier but I totally believe it depends on who you talk to. The guy I spoke with may be much stricter with giving out information - or he may not know - as compared to someone else. They can’t get annoyed…it’s their job and they should be expecting this, especially this week.</p>
<p>Why are you guys so concerned about when the decision will come out? It’s not like it changes anything. In addition, I find it much less stressful to get a notification the morning the decision is released than counting down "4 more days… 3 more days… "</p>
<p>At least when you know the date your hopes aren’t dashed every day the decision is not posted. It just adds to the uncertainty that is already endemic to waiting.</p>