<p>Last year decisions came out online on March 30 at 2:00 pm sharp.</p>
<p>I hope they maintain the Friday trend...</p>
<p>Collegebound, what is being called a likely letter is actually a letter
from the Dean of admissions at Stanford offering admission to those RD
candidates.</p>
<p>The bulk of the RD acceptances will probably be sent together end of March.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>i hope i get in herre. im dying here...don't they understand?</p>
<p>I know someone who got a call from Stanford last night to tell her that she got in so I guess it's a rolling basis until March 30th</p>
<p>lol thats strange. im sure she was a special case, they're not going to be calling all of us by phone</p>
<p>probably for like...multicultural or likely...</p>
<p>I totally want to meet the people getting these likely letters. They must be truly amazing!</p>
<p>Sheed-Even if the adcom does understand how we feel, they are obligated to review everyone's app. xD I figure they must still be working on it. Well, at least I hope they wouldn't torture us just for fun. :P</p>
<p>well last year notifications were updated on the 31st so maybe its the same this year too...I guess we just have to wait (which is extremely hard at this point).</p>
<p>I don't get why so many people are all "i'll slit my wrists to get into Stanford". I am part of the "i could care less if i get accepted or not" group...they reject me, their loss, they accept me, too bad cause I am not going there. Why would I pay $50k for 4 years to be academically dominated for what? Wow, I can say I went to Stanford...yay....as I make only 10% more than someone who went to school for free.
Frankly, I am smart enough to go anywhere and be successful...I wouldn't have gotten straight A's for 12 years if that wasn't true. I just applied to prove to all those annoying 50-after-school-club, 5000 community service hour, 20 hour work-day asian girls that you can be normal (2 clubs, 300 hours, 4 hour work-days) and still get accepted. Too many kids think that they need to do everything an adcom ever said to do to the extreme. "We like community service" so they go volunteer for the wrong reasons. I laugh at all the kids who get rejected from Stanford after wasting 4 years of high school gearing to getting accepted.</p>
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<p>50k? The overwhelming majority of students don't pay that (3 in 4 receive financial aid). If you do, then they clearly think you have the means to.</p>
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Wow, I can say I went to Stanford...yay....as I make only 10% more than someone who went to school for free.
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<p>If you think that's the only advantage of going to a school like Stanford, well... I'm sorry.</p>
<p>Good attitude to have, at any rate, as decisions approach.</p>
<p>Its also a bit hypocritical on his part to. </p>
<p>''If they don't accept me, its their loss, if they accept me too bad because i'm not going"....so what was the point of wasting all this time to apply in the first place? Applying to Stanford 'just to see if you can get in' implies that you care a lot more about stanford's reputation than most people.</p>
<p>I just wanted to see if I could get in to the statistically hardest school to get in to. The application was fairly quick and easy since the letters of rec were scanned from USC application (which I got accepted to) and the essays were copy-pasted from UCSD application (which I got accepted to with scholarship). It was fun getting accepted to USC while slacking off on the app the entire time. Oh, BTW I applied there to prove essays and ec's didn't matter one bit in getting accepted...all GPA and SAT. USC is in too much of a ghetto (south central LA) for me to go there to get shot. After hearing a story from an Alum who was there during the Rodney King riots, that sealed the deal.</p>
<p>I laugh and cry at the same time at how bad schools are in determining who should get aid. The only stuff they care about are assets and income...never mind my parents need to have enough to retire on after putting me and my brother through school 100% out of pocket....but schools don't care to see that. They only wanna see the poor minority kid who probably got accepted because of AA and will fail-out anyways.</p>
<p>That's fair enough. Though like I said, it shows that you care about Stanford's reputation and name just as much as the rest of us who are hoping teeth and nail to get in and actually attend. Whereas on the one hand we crave the actual admission, you crave the personal satisfaction of 'getting into Stanford'.</p>
<p>Its perfectly legit, but no basis to bash the other side either.</p>
<p>I more crave the satisfaction of getting in over someone else who spent their whole life trying to get in :)</p>
<p>But why are you "hoping teeth and nail"? Do you honestly dilute yourself into thinking you are getting a vastly superior education? I wanna hear some reasons why people think Stanford in THE school to go to.</p>
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<p>Yes, with a long essay, four short essays, and an array of short answers? I'm sure UCSD's was exactly like that.</p>
<p>(It wasn't.)</p>
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from USC application (which I got accepted to)
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<p>USC is a 50k university that doesn't even compare to Stanford. And USC lacks the name brand that Stanford does. So what was your reason for applying to USC (as it clearly isn't a test of whether you "could get in to the statistically hardest school to get in to")?</p>
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They only wanna see the poor minority kid who probably got accepted because of AA and will fail-out anyways.
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<p>Now your comments are just bordering on plain asinine. Please try to maintain a sense of courtesy even if you're depressed you won't get into Stanford.</p>
<p>Most of the other posters here are students or hopefuls. You are now being patently offensive, in your bashing of both Stanford and an entire group of students (URMs).</p>
<p>By the way, the graduation rates of URMs:</p>
<p>Black: 89%
Hispanic: 96%
American Indian: 93%</p>
<p>So don't make such brash assumptions as "the poor minority kid ... will fail-out anyways."</p>
<p>They're underrepresented for a reason and it hasn't been "because the white man has been holding them down" since the 70s. Black people can call each other niggers but take offense if a white person does so even in a playful manner? What kinda racism is that?
Next, USC is border-line ivy-league and no where near "easy" to get into when looking at the entire college bound population. IMO USC has even greater brand recognition because of their sports than Stanford ever will....what else...oh, yeah basically I BS-ed the short answers from other essays I wrote. Delete a couple of fluff statements and I'm down to 50 words.
And don't try to through stats at me and think they'll float. 89%...ok..how about the 90% of the general population that don't even goto college because they are too ignorant to get their acts together. Those stats are like saying "we have a 100% grad rate of students who scored a 2400 on the SAT"</p>
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They're underrepresented for a reason and it hasn't been "because the white man has been holding them down" since the 70s. Black people can call each other niggers but take offense if a white person does so even in a playful manner? What kinda racism is that?
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<p>What are you even talking about? This is really not germane to the discussion (or lack thereof, given your obstinacy) at hand.</p>
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USC is border-line ivy-league
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<p>Hahahaha, right.</p>
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no where near "easy" to get into when looking at the entire college bound population
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<p>But in comparison to Stanford? Significantly easier.</p>
<p>By the way, USC practices AA too. Its graduation rates for URMs:</p>
<p>Black: 85%
Hispanic: 81%
American Indian: 75%</p>
<p>So it seems that the URMs at USC are more likely to drop out than those at Stanford.</p>
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<p>...now you're just kidding yourself. USC with a greater brand recognition? If you want to think that, go right ahead. =)</p>
<p>(Oh wait, who won in the last Stanford vs. USC game? Hmm... can't quite remember... oh right, it was the nerds from Palo Alto!)</p>
<p>Give up. This is a losing game for you.</p>
<p>Anyways I think this thread is going beside my original point: you people stress way to much over something that isn't going to matter in 10 years.</p>
<p>USC is ranked 12th in the US for undergraduate and graduate engineering...median acceptance SAT is ~2000 which is >95th percentile....seems pretty border-line ivy-league to me.</p>
<p>Sorry to say but you're an idiot if you think Stanford has more recognition than USC....when was the last time you saw a pair of Stanford flip-flops on the east coast....case and point.</p>