<p>All you deferred people out there:</p>
<p>Do you remember in the letter when it said that they have traditionally accepted about 10% of deferred applicants? Does this mean that we are at a disadvantage in the regular round because we applied early? Or do you think there is another reason that it's only ten percent...like maybe some people withdraw their apps or their grades drop at midyear or something?</p>
<p>We are most def at a disadvantage because of the 10% acceptance rate, but then again advantage because we can send in update form with extra added info. Let's wait and see what happens yall...</p>
<p>BTW. What date and time does Stanford release RD decisions?</p>
<p>April 1st for RD. Time? I'm guess 3PM, like it was EA.</p>
<p>Since the RD acceptance rate is also ~10%, wouldn't that put deferred applicants at somewhat of an advantage since it's a smaller pool of people?</p>
<p>Wait, or is RD at an advantage because that 10% covers more people...</p>
<p>Now I've gone and gotten myself all confused.</p>
<p>they both make sense to me. but it doesn't make sense to me that they both make sense to me. okay the end.</p>
<p>well I mean, you do technically get "two chances"
but ED ppl are stronger
so...lol
I'm not sure, I'm deferred too...hopefully we'll all get in -_-'
I think it comes out apr1 i would think around...4-5 pacific like ED?</p>
<p>Ten percent means ten percent. Even if there were only 10 people in the app pool, only one would be accepted lol. So no, we aren't at an advantage b/c the app pool is smaller.</p>
<p>I will be the one accepted out of you ten! heehee haahaa (JK!)</p>
<p>dude, i am so nervous
even though its months away</p>
<p>not really, it's only about 1 month way from now.... Man, I should start getting nervous.</p>
<p>i just sealed my update form. BAH! i just sealed my fate! okay no not really. well kind of. okay the end.</p>
<p>Sorry for sneaking onto this discussion, but I have a quick question that is semi-pertinent... For my optional update form, I only have like two things to say that I've done since I last updated them (lacrosse captain and some plaque). But my school also has a "Senior Bests" thing where people vote each other "best car," "best hair," "biggest heart," etc. I got "Best All Around" and I was considering putting it down, but it sounds like too much of a popularity contest and I kind of doubt that Stanford will much care. On one hand, it shows that my peers don't hate me, but on the other hand, it seems kind of unnecessarily brag-ish and rather irrelevant. What do you think?</p>
<p>My school does superlatives, too. I got Most Intellectual and I put it down.</p>
<p>my school does that too, but I didn't get anything, not even most studious.... I'm still a little bitter about that... o well</p>
<p>Thanks! Do you think that one is okay to put down then? I can see "Most Intellectual" being fine, so I guess mine is too?</p>
<p>Should people put Homecoming prince or Winter Formal court on their apps?</p>
<p>uh...no.....</p>
<p>Alright -- I put it down. Hope Stanford doesn't sneer at me.</p>
<p>What is important to you is important to you, the adcom just gets
another peek at who you are at school...they should never be sneering
at anything ...</p>
<p>why wouldn't stanford want to choose the deferred kids over equally competative regular kids? that way it would increase yield (bc SCEA = stanford is first choice) without increasing the % of early apps accepted...</p>
<p>since stanford doesn't do sympathy deferrals, i have a hard time understanding why its deferred acceptance rate is similar to schools who defer the vast majority of their early applicants.</p>