<p>I knew the fact that the Stanford Admissions session in my area had to have two overflow rooms to accomodate all the interested students wasn't a good sign.:(</p>
<p>I think that means Stanford's SCEA acceptance rate will probably be sub 15% this year which really sucks.</p>
<p>Thoughts??</p>
<p>I am shocked to see this five percent increase. I thought the increase would be relatively low... Oh well, yay for competition :) lol.</p>
<p>Yeiks! That certainly doesn't bode well for us. 5% increase is pretty huge.</p>
<p>according to the stats thread at the top of the forum 4,175 applied EA last year. </p>
<p>(4733-4175)/4175.... that's a 13% increase, not 5% -- one of these numbers must be wrong</p>
<p>just be glad you're not a freshman or sophomore</p>
<p>Or you could be sad you weren't born 50 years ago. Your call.</p>
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actually, i think we're the last of babyboomer echo.
at least my school enrollment shows that there are much less competition next year
My high school:
10th Grade: 650
11th Grade: 589
12th Grade: 580</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>Awww...
Well, there's nothing we can do now except wait...</p>
<p>And be confident that we'll get in!!! :D</p>
<p>At my school, the freshmen class is huge. About a 1000 compared to a senior class of about 800.</p>
<p>does i really matter how many apply...unless stanford has some quota like MIT does</p>
<p>Yes, because they want to leave a certain amount of room for regular applicants and they aren't expanding.</p>
<p>they might defer more applicants this year if they're unsure about the quality of the RD applicant pool.</p>
<p>ugh... :( Being deferred is worse than being rejected, methinks...</p>
<p>Well, if you're rejected, your outlook on the status of your other applications has got to be doubly worse than if you were deferred. Gosh...so scary >_<</p>
<p>Oh ****! I guess everyone caught on how cool Stanford is at about the same time as me...</p>
<p>Well I'm rejected, Oh well.</p>
<p>Shark_bite dont make assumptions ! the whole thing is so random who knows who will get in....but yeah it sucks that there has been an increase in applicants:P</p>
<p>oh crud.............................................that is awful. just great.</p>
<p>I don't think this whole increased application numbers thing is something to get too scared about. Stanford adcoms know the relative caliber of applicants they are looking for in the SCEA pool. I think the 5-7% increase in the number of applications will probably result in a proportional increase in the number of acceptances or, at the very least, deferrals. I don't think an increased applicant pool will decrease a qualified individual's chance at getting accepted. In other words: if you get accepted now, you probably would have gotten accepted if the applicant pool was the size it was last year. The same goes for people who get deferrals and rejections. It's just not a cause for alarm. </p>
<p>Relax, you guys!</p>
<p>chilltown, that doesn't make sense. They can't just accept every qualified person...the size of the school hasn't changed to match the increased number of qualified applicants (assuming the 5% additional group of applicants has the same concentration of qualified people as the original pool). Stanford has got to become more selective to maintain the size of its class</p>
<p>I understand what you mean. What I am saying is that Stanford is not getting a ton more selective because the applicant pool went up by a few hundred. My guess is that the number of SCEA admits (if the extra applicants are of what adcoms consider "Stanford caliber") will go up slightly and the number in the regular pool will decrease slightly. If you look at the data for the classes of 2007 and 2008 (and I am just using the data in this forum, so it could be wrong) the number of SCEA admits went up from 598 for 2007 to 800 for 2008. This over 33% increase shows that the number of SCEA admits can fluctuate from year to year. So yeah, the SCEA acceptance rate will fluctuate; but I don't feel that they are going to be changing their expectations, if you know what I mean.</p>
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I just don't think that the number of qualified graduating seniors has simply increased by 5% in one year.</p>
<p>My point is that SCEA applicants (including me) shouldn't worry that an increased number of applications is going to be the reason for their rejection letter.</p>