<p>okay. like a huge portion of you, Stanford is my dream school too. But it's not that big of a deal which day decisions are gonna be. It'll be within the next week, I assure you. i was a little bit freaked out too when i heard a couple weeks ago that decisions would be earlier today, but I got over it pretty quickly. Also, I'm proud to say that I wasnt one of the 125803295861212 people who responded to the "omg omg omg omg" post, which, as it quickly became obvious, was just some guy posting that decisions would be NEXT friday. so anyway, just CHILL OUT. What does it matter if decisions are 6 minutes away or 6 days away? It'll get there, and something like 94% of you (me included!!! yay!!!) will be really freaking bummed. </p>
<p>anyway, just calm down. and yes, this is coming from an INCREDIBLY impatient person. </p>
<p>Best of luck to all you fellow Stanford hopefuls!</p>
<p>dude, chillax. </p>
<p>but best of luck to you!</p>
<p>Hahaha. Jgorman, calm down!</p>
<p>:D Instead of replying to the omg omg thread you created a whole new one! </p>
<p>The waiting game is tough… </p>
<p>Best of luck to everybody (although I really shouldn’t wish that because I want to get in. lol)!
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<p>So this thread is basically the reply of “omg omg omg omg omg” thread.</p>
<p>A Freudian psychologist would say that you’re subconsciously projecting your anxiety onto the forum members.</p>
<p>dude relax it’s okay everything’s gonna be alright</p>
<p>^^^^ ohaha no its not for the majority of us</p>
<p>This week is going to suck. A lot.</p>
<p>It’ll seem bad now, but in ten years it won’t be anywhere near as important as you think it is. And for the six percent who get in you don’t need reassurance.</p>
<p>it’s sad that admissions are so subjective nowadays. our hard work and achievements are for naught. they’ll probably just reject us all. -sigh-</p>
<p>Jgorman seriously, take deep breaths and calm down. We know you feel stressed but don’t do anything you’ll regret!</p>
<p>It should be very low stress for 94% of the those posting to CC; hardly anyone is going to be admitted to Stanford and everyone should just accept it and expect it (i.e rejection). But just think of the poor bastards that actually get in - it’ll be a shock to the senses and will leave them bewildered and confused, ecstatic but scared s***less. It’ll be like the lone guy surviving a plane crash having to live with the “why me??” and trying to prove that you really deserved it and that your fortunate luck wasn’t a mistake. Such a burden…</p>
<p>^ That’s a rather clever way of looking at it.</p>
<p>I’ve already gotten into a really good school that I thought I would have little chance at, so it wouldn’t disappoint me in the slightest if I didn’t get into Stanford or any other school I’m waiting on. No need to freak out about this–anybody applying to Stanford obviously has the stats to get into a lot of other great schools, and from there it’s what you make of it.</p>
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<p>You know, I’ve always wondered why people say this. It’s completely untrue. As far as I know, Stanford doesn’t forbid anyone from applying with, say, a SAT lower than 1500. I mean, someone with a 600/2400 SAT, 1.0 GPA, and no extracurriculars could apply to Stanford. Nothing’s stopping him/her. But does said individual “have the stats to get into a lot of other great schools”? I’ll leave you to answer that question.</p>
<p>(Hint: the answer’s “no”)</p>
<p>Change “anybody” to “the majority” or even “the vast majority”, then. I think the competitive nature of Stanford would discourage most uncompetitive applicants from applying.</p>
<p>^^ someone from my high school with a 1.9 (WEIGHTED… btw) and like a 1500/2400 applied to Harvard…</p>
<p>Obviously I didn’t mean everyone, but most people at the very least. And of those that do apply with low stats and no redeeming qualities, the only ones that would worry so much about the Stanford decision are simply misguided. Not much you can do there, but in general I would say the collegeconfidential crowd don’t fall into that category. </p>
<p>This is barring international students who need aid that other schools aren’t offering; I don’t know much about that whole situation with Stanford so I can’t include them.</p>
<p>I think that there are more low-caliber students applying to Stanford than, say, Harvard or MIT because it’s a paradise and doesn’t have a reputation for being a lot of work… ANYONE would want to go there. Only good students want to go to Harvard or MIT.</p>
<p>That theory might be plausible with respect to MIT, but I don’t think it is for Harvard. Harvard doesn’t have a reputation for having more work than Stanford. And both have plenty of work, actually. I think it’s probably a little harder to do well at Stanford than at Harvard because of the pacing of the quarter system, and the tendency of professors to fit a lot of material into that 10-week space.</p>
<p>Zen is right. Take the program of study list for electrical eng, chem, or psych and compare Stanford to Harvard and you’ll be amazed at how much less intense the requirements are at H. It’s the key reason why Harvard undergrads are pushed relentlessly toward college extra curriculars; the assumption being that you learn just as much being the leader of a club as you do taking a class.</p>
<p>^^MIT is supposed to be hard and their goal is to see how far they can push you before you break. If you define high-caliber student as the kid that walks around with bed-head, his belt buckle 3 inches above his navel and a physics book under each arm then yes, MIT attracts more high-caliber applicants.</p>