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March 31, 2008

No need to weigh admissons letter; just click tonight

Keep an eye out this evening for server errors brought on by anxious teenagers.

This evening, the nation’s eight Ivy League schools –– including, for the 7th year, Brown University –– will release their admissions decisions online. That means no looking out the window for the mail carrier. No weighing of admissions office envelopes. Just point and click.

The decisions will be available at 5 p.m. Until then, all there is to do is wait. A message at Brown’s admissions office says a moratorium is in effect today and tomorrow, meaning no last-minute pleas or questions for admissions departments. What’s done is done.

Brown won’t publicize how many spots it's offering until the decisions are released this evening. Last year, the school turned away about 85 percent of those who applied –– a record rate of rejection.

That year it also had a record number of applications -- more than 19,000. The school accepted just fewer than 2,600 of those applicants.

Of course, for any students who prefer the old school process –– and anticipation –– of waiting for a tangible admissions acceptance or rejection letter, those are also being mailed today.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 12:47 PM | Permalink

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