<p>I can’t see my admission decision anymore :(</p>
<p>S said Brown is still his #1 dream school and is not quite ready to give up the dream yet. He sent in his blue waitlist card. Guess now we wait…again.</p>
<p>I think I heard from Brown or an official source at some point that there are around 500 kids on the waitlist. I’m not sure where, though. I could be wrong. But I remember comparing this to Cornell and thinking, “Wow, Cornell’s waitlist is so much bigger.”</p>
<p>And yeah, I’ve decided to send in that little blue card. May the force be with us all. ;)</p>
<p>I sent in the card as well.</p>
<p>I got in and am taking a gap year 
So theres one more spot Good luck you guysss</p>
<p>oh, oh! i’ve wanted to attend brown since my sophomore year and when i visited this past summer, i validated this. unfortunately, i was wait-listed (like <em>almost</em> everybody else in this thread). does anybody know if it’s worth it to send an additional draft to the “memorable academic experience” essay, or a late music supplement? i’m afraid of annoying/overwhelming the adcom!</p>
<p>I’ve spent a lot of time with friends researching/working on waitlist strategies in the last week.
IMO, don’t send your admissions officer another supplement. They already know who you are, unless you failed to convey it effectively in your original application, but the fact that you made waitlist probably indicates that’s not the case. What you should do, however, is send a letter saying, in very specific terms, why you want to go to Brown and why it is still your number one choice school, a cut above all the other schools to which you were accepted. The waitlist is more of a crapshoot than regular admissions, and almost nothing you do will influence the decision since it is, as fireandrain said, based more on your niche than your raw stats. Sending it that one letter, though, may give you a minor advantage if an acceptee with your niche drops out, and you are in competition not with the entire waitlist but with the other 10 applicants who fit the same niche you do.</p>
<p>You should consider your other options, and try to fit yourself somewhere else. Your chances are quite slim, so comit yourself to other colleges that can be right for you.</p>
<p>@hbs628,
i’m also a waitlistee; can access it as well. hope this is a positive indicator =)</p>
<p>@Emory2013?,
same here. just out of curiosity, did you send in the waitlist card?</p>
<p>yields for the privates will drop a huge amount this year because of the economy, so stay on the waitlist</p>
<p>I’ve never actually met or known anyone that’s gotten off a waitlist. I know Brown admitted a huge amount of people last year off it, but I’m still starting to think that the waitlist is just a big myth to toy with us poor applicants…</p>
<p>Brown won’t know how many can come off the waitlist until after May 1 – so there is absolutely no point in speculating about any of this until then.</p>
<p>I took myself off and went to Columbia. Gl to everyone.</p>
<p>I agree with MiPerson80; the economy is bad and yield rates will be as messy as last year’s, so I think we all have a reason to be optimistic.</p>