<p>I spoke with my guidance counselor yesterday, and she gave me the impression that she was going to talk to my teachers and pull some information together to be sent to Brown as soon as we get back from break. She talked about it like it was common procedure for waitlist people, but I’m not sure what she intends to send. I’m not sure what to send myself, if anything, but I’ll probably be in constant contact with my counselor once we get back and thus get a better idea of what/when to send.</p>
<p>I’m also making a semi-spontaneous trip to Providence over break to see if I can get in and have a chat with some people in the admissions office. If I find anything out, I’ll be sure to post it here.</p>
<p>I think I’m going to take myself off the waitlist - I really love Brown, and thought it was a beautiful campus when I visited, but I don’t think I would end up going there, because of financial/proximity reasons. I really would like to find out if I get off the waitlist, but I don’t want to take anyone else’s spot.</p>
<p>I’m also going to stay on! I applied for the Brown-RISD program and it seems impossible that I would ever be admitted now, but I’m holding onto that tiny bit of hope…
My decisions:
Accepted: Bowdoin, Swarthmore, RISD, Bates</p>
<p>I’ve also been waitlisted.
Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford
Waitlisted: Brown, Dartmouth
Admitted: Cornell, Williams, Northwestern, Georgetown, USC, UCLA, UCSD</p>
<p>I am going to wait for Brown, not for Dartmouth. Most likely I’ll send one update on my current situation, and then forget about Brown to focus on the places I’ve actually got accepted.</p>
<p>In my opinion, being waitlisted means that If they just had more space in their class, I would’ve been accepted.
I’m happy with that.</p>
<p>S was also been waitlisted.
Rejected: Yale, Stanford
Waitlisted: Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Penn and Brown
Admitted: Duke, Dartmouth, Cornell, Washu, Rice, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Michigan</p>
<p>I’m staying on the waitlist too…except even if they ever do accept me I don’t know if I’ll be able to afford it </p>
<p>Anywhoo…stats:</p>
<p>Rejected: Harvard, Dartmouth
Waitlisted: Brown, Amherst (took the wait list for both)
Accepted: U of MN (twin cities), Carleton, Bowdoin, Kenyon, Tufts, Wash U in St. Louis</p>
<p>Is it just me, or is the wait just excruciating? I’m just gonna go ahead and figure that I won’t get off the waitlist for Brown which is my top choice, but still that dangling, fleeting hope of some miraculous occurrence is too much bear.</p>
<p>Rejected: UPenn
Waitlisted: Brown
Accepted: Tufts, BC, BU, Drexel</p>
<p>I’m definitely signing up for the waitlist. The only problem is, I’ve heard that certain schools only take full-pay students off their waitlist, and seeing as I need financial aid, this worries me. Does anyone know if Brown practices this?</p>
<p>Accepted: Dartmouth, Amherst, WashU (the king of waitlists…), UCB, UCLA, UCSD
Waitlistd: Brown, Pomona, Williams
Rejected: Stanford, Harvard, Yale</p>
<p>Is Brown worth it when I have Dartmouth? no idea…</p>
<p>I’m a parent and new to this, and you guys seem to know what you’re doing – and I want to sound smart when trying to give advice to my daughter.</p>
<p>She was Rejected: Stanford and Cornell
Accepted at : UCLA, UCSD, Cal and NYU
Waitlisted: harvard and brown</p>
<p>She’s currently deciding between a big prestigeous public university – with a campus – at Cal, and the smalller, more individualized program at a private university in an urban setting, NYU. Her first choice remains Brown. Should I tell her to go all out for Brown?</p>
<p>If her first choice is Brown, I would say definitely sign up for the waiting list and send any updates (with the obvious understanding that getting off the wait list is not a sure thing). But you really don’t get what you don’t try for. And she has other great options anyway. She may decide she wants to commit to another school with all her heart so Brown will drop off, but why not leave the options open?</p>
<p>My daughter was also accepted at NYU and is on Brown’s waitlist. She signed up for the waitlist and would go to Brown if accepted, but till then is trying to be enthusiastic about NYU. The conundrum is, how does she direct her heart towards two different places?? The other issue is, how much money in deposits to NYU will be lost if Brown comes through at some point during the summer–at what point is it rational to just call the whole wait list process quits and concentrate on being happy elsewhere? Of course these are all rhetorical questions. Sigh.</p>
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