<p>Stanford received 30,348 applications, according to Bloomberg.com. The article says they are RD apps, but some people on the thread in the Stanford forum think it is the total of RD plus SCEA apps.</p>
<p>[thread=641479]Stanford Receives 30,348 Regular Apps...and You Thought Harvard Was Bad![/thread]</p>
<p>what a horrible world we live in... :(</p>
<p>I think anyone who gets in to the HYPSM schools with apps this high are going to have an ego the size of Texas.</p>
<p>^ Not really... when you're literally begging for financial aid in three different parts of your app... :) My dad makes as much as a year's cost of Yale... thank God for the new initiatives...</p>
<p>Harvard won't be happy until their acceptance rate is 0.00000000000001%</p>
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<p>I will not lie...when I read how many applications Stanford received I felt pretty damn special for a few minutes. However, I then realized that with over 30,000 applicants it is more likely they made a mistake in accepting me. There was probably 5 minutes at most spent looking over my app? If anything, I feel damn well lucky (which is still a great feeling).</p>
<p>every kid from '09 is applying to 10+ schools and plus we are the largest h.s. class is history</p>
<p>^ I think this is a CC phenomenon. More like 3-5 schools for me and most kids I know.</p>
<p>Remember -- admissions officers have said it time and time again: "If we suddenly removed all the students we accepted, we could re-fill the entire class with qualified students who we initially rejected."</p>
<p>I will not totally believe what they say. Maybe if they keep the top 300-500 people, they can swap the rest.There are only so many that the school is looking for.</p>
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<p>Not exactly. Keep in mind that there are people who don't even get a shot at college work. And, I'm an '09 person and I only applied to 6 schools. I think that the reason is based more on the fact that this is the peak of the baby-boom generation. (whatever the last generation was called)</p>
<p>I think that if more kids are applying to more schools, then those who are waitlisted will stand a better chance of getting in because the retention rate will be a lot lower and therefore the classes will not be filled because many accepted students will go somewhere else and then the students on waitlist must come off. This may be lower in the Ivies but I believe many other top-schools will probably experience this phenomena.</p>
<p>I'm just glad that I got into Rice while the getting was still good. They also experienced a record number of applicants</p>
<p>I wsa looking at the ranges for SATs and like how many people are in the top 4% of test takers. and it turns out that the 96% and higher is comprised of abouut 35,000</p>
<p>So, I think that the same 40,000 students are all applying to these top universities. they all have very similar college lists. I know thats a generalization but it maks sense. Biggest class ever with people applying to more schools. I would say if the average is 5-7 schools throughout the country.
It seems as thought Harvard, Yale, and Stanford get spots on everyone's lists and then all the other top schools are kinda distributed throughout the top SAT scorers. That is just a generalization but it makes sense.
And there are othe rpeople below the top 4% applying to these schools yes....so that makes it even more plausible too. My point was that the top 4% of students in the country could account for the high numbers alone. And there are a lot more than just the top 4% applying</p>
<p>I heard that this year's graduating class is one of the largest.
I cannot believe 29,000 people are applying for 1,700 spots.
I only applied to 4 schools.</p>
<p>hahaha juliushark... and to the "ego the size of texas thing"</p>
<p>and honestly... what's so great about harvard except for the name? what honestly makes it stand out from any other top tier undergrad school? a 7-letter word. that's it.</p>
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I wsa looking at the ranges for SATs and like how many people are in the top 4% of test takers. and it turns out that the 96% and higher is comprised of abouut 35,000</p>
<p>So, I think that the same 40,000 students are all applying to these top universities. they all have very similar college lists. I know thats a generalization but it maks sense. Biggest class ever with people applying to more schools. I would say if the average is 5-7 schools throughout the country.
It seems as thought Harvard, Yale, and Stanford get spots on everyone's lists and then all the other top schools are kinda distributed throughout the top SAT scorers. That is just a generalization but it makes sense.
And there are othe rpeople below the top 4% applying to these schools yes....so that makes it even more plausible too. My point was that the top 4% of students in the country could account for the high numbers alone. And there are a lot more than just the top 4% applying
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<p>He may be small exception, but son is in top 1% of SATs and didn't apply to HYPSM, etc. He chose Pomona, where he got in early, Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst, Claremont McKenna, Rice, Vassar & Haverford.</p>
<p>Ya....i mean there are definitely exceptions....myself being one of them
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i think that the top 4% maybe 5% of SAT takers is enough students to account for the applications.</p>
<p>congrats to him on Pomona!! thats a great accomplishment!!</p>
<p>^^ Thanks!</p>
<p>well, if our economy is as bad as all these politicians say it is, then why are so many people applying to Harvard when money is so tight?</p>
<p>i think a lot of these schools might actually fabricate these figures.
idk, just a theory. cause, i really don't believe UVA's applications increased by 17% in one year...</p>
<p>the point is that if a person randomly gets in, since the economy is tight, then hopefully theyll get a good load of financial aid.</p>