<p>:D I’m pretty much okay with being one of the peeps rejected.</p>
<p>I mean, I haven’t gotten a letter or anything. But my chances are about 1:10000000 at this point so… I won’t be heartbroken when that notification finally comes. 
Congrats to everyone who gets in, you all totally deserve it with these odds. 
Luck to all!</p>
<p>:) at least you should have received the acknowledgement letter from Stanford. That is cool :)</p>
<p>yay! Early apps went up by 18%, around 700 people were differed, so now basically 24000-25000</p>
<p>Wow the admit rate is going to be very low…</p>
<p>Depending on our yield, Stanford may have the lowest acceptance rate in the country. (It’s anticipated to be 7.5%.) Ultimately, either we or Harvard should win the honors.</p>
<p>The highly selective music schools will likely have the lowest accept rates, but that said Stanford’s accept rate is going to be scary. </p>
<p>^^ H is not the only one close to Stanford. Yale looks like 7.5% is a possibility, 1950/25925. Last year accept/this year apps. AND there are probably more schools in the single digits. Calling these schools selective is an understatement, it’s crazy really.</p>
<p>We got less than 1000 apps more than Harvard, I believe, so the admit rate differential will come down to two things–first, Stanford has dangerously overenrolled the past few years and cannot afford to do so again, so they will be very conservative in admitting applicants, perhaps undershooting their projected yield and utilizing, for the first time in a while, a waitlist; second, the actual yield–last year it hovered around 70%, Harvard’s was around 80%… I think it would take an absolutely epic year in terms of applications (which we’ve seen already) and yield turn out (distinct possibility) to drop below Harvard’s acceptance rate. Could happen.</p>
<p>Harvard drew more than 200 from the waitlist last year. That means their yield was 1400/2000, or 70% before drawing from the waitlist, which was about the same as Stanford’s yield (without drawing from the waitlist).</p>
<p>Actually, I am pretty sure that Stanford received more apps than Harvard this year.</p>
<p>They did… it was 30,000 something us to 29,000 something them. Reread what I wrote.</p>
<p>Oops! To be fair, your phrasing was kind of weird though :)</p>
<p>This time I’ll let it slide. This time.</p>
<p>I don’t have a “beef” with you!</p>
<p>I am not sure that this is a blessing or a curse. I actually think that it may bring the quality of the Class down - more applications, less time spent on each, more error-prone and as result, low Class quality. You have a school like Stanford which is HYPM caliber, but with lower SAT cores and of course you are going to attract more students because your pool is larger.</p>
<p>It should not make any difference in terms of quality for a crapshoot at the sub_bar of SAT, but it will make headlines for being the school most difficult to get in.</p>
<p>lol “less than 1000 more than” </p>
<p>i had to read that one twice. I didn’t know Stanford and Harvard undergraduate student bodies were around the same size…</p>
<p>Has Stanford ever had more applications than Harvard? Or is it just this year? Lucky us Californians…</p>
<p>Lol. A lot of unqualified students apply – like me. :]</p>
<p>^PSH… you say that but I wonder what your stats are really like? 2300 SAT + Top 1% class rank? hahaha</p>
<p>Lmao. Not even. More like, <2000 SAT and top 4%. Haha. =] I am heading to a UC.</p>