Any current student willing to do a 'Helpful Thread for those Contemplating SCEA'?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>You know, since Yale has one. :D</p>

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<p>Haha.</p>

<p>I might get around to doing an analysis of Stanford’s SCEA results from last year eventually. The Yale one I did (found here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/651345-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-3-a-47.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/651345-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-3-a-47.html&lt;/a&gt;) and the Princeton RD analysis (found here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/651345-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-3-a-45.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/651345-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-3-a-45.html&lt;/a&gt;) took a rather long time.</p>

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<p>i like the idea…haha</p>

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<p>Come on, Yale’s had 29 replies the last time I checked!</p>

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<p>There’s a reason why there are direct links to the Ivy League forums on the CC discussion main page, and no direct link to the Stanford forum: the Ivy League forums get way more posts. If you haven’t noticed, CC’ers often display a clear East Coast bias. Not sure if that’s because most of them are from the East Coast, or what. But it’s definitely there : )</p>

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<p>I created the Yale thread because that was the school I chose to do the analysis for. It wasn’t because of any east coast bias.</p>

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<p>no, east coast bias is why people post in it.</p>

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<p>The reason for the number of posts is that people are asking for chances or assistance in interpreting my analysis of Yale SCEA results. </p>

<p>I have not yet done one for Stanford, which is why this thread has few posts. </p>

<p>But! If we post a ton about how the east coast’s bias leads to this thread’s having more posts, we could undo the effect.</p>

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<p>well, if that’s what it takes… : )
But seriously, just look at the cross-admit poll someone posted a while back on this forum, trying to get an idea of who would win each of the individual cross-admit battles among HYPS. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton all clobbered Stanford in their individual matchups. However, as we know from the data, Stanford only loses to Harvard out of that group across the country. (And don’t cite that stupid, incorrect NY Times article from like 4 years ago as evidence to the contrary.)</p>

<p>Want to do one for Stanford, then? I’d actually much rather see one for RD than SCEA, since that’s what I applied. But I know that would be a lot more work.
And remember, potential SCEA’ers, nothing is stopping you from looking at what silverturtle did and then doing it yourselves. He didn’t use too many differential equations, so you guys should be able to handle it… : p hahahahaha</p>

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<p>Junie has now completed the Stanford SCEA analysis in the same format as I did for Yale and Princeton. You can find it here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/651345-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-3-a-48.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/651345-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-3-a-48.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Based on a quick study, it seems that there is less correlation between scores and acceptances at Stanford than at Yale. I can’t easily draw any conclusions about thresholds for being accepted early at Stanford as I did for Yale.</p>

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<p>Wow. Thanks. So Stanford’s even more of a crapshoot then?</p>

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<p>Well, if you mean “crapshoot” as in the results aren’t as easily quantifiably explained, then yes.</p>