<p>Your stats! You obivously know that you are going to college (and Stanford is an option, nice!), so your stats should not really matter and you should not worry about what others on the forum think of them as they want to see them to see how good their chances are.....you know what I mean?</p>
<p>dpattzlover, he told us two pages ago on this thread. What more do you want to know?</p>
<p>I'm a strong believer in the hypothesis that colleges see you as more than just numbers, and that getting in to a very good school isn't just about what you've achieved, but how you've done it, and then how well you show that in your application. My numerical stats are not nearly as important as the context in which i achieved them, and my attitude toward life that i successfully portrayed in my application.</p>
<p>Nice. </p>
<p>However, I once again question the letters' being sent on the 2nd......if reviewing had just begun, why would they basically send a letter saying we're holding a spot when thousands of others with similar situations to yours are not being notified? It just seems like a quick decision to make, I would think they'd wait until late February/mid-March to send out such letters. I don't know.</p>
<p>Hahaha Stanford hasn't even got my SAT/ACT reports. LOL</p>
<p>Let's just wait for another week or so and see.</p>
<p>dang, congrats on getting a likely letter from Stanford!</p>
<p>I had applied to stanford as well, but I was admitted to MIT early action and deferred from both caltech and uchicago. lol. I guess Stanford would be an awesome school for me to go to, but it's too far...all the way from Connecticut.</p>
<p>"However, I once again question the letters' being sent on the 2nd......if reviewing had just begun, why would they basically send a letter saying we're holding a spot when thousands of others with similar situations to yours are not being notified? It just seems like a quick decision to make, I would think they'd wait until late February/mid-March to send out such letters. I don't know."
Stanford does indeed send such letters each year to a lucky few students that they REALLY want to come.</p>
<p>wildcharter.., congratson MIT EA. you must be awesome. what's your intended major? i can't see MIT, Stan, and Chicago on the same list, unless it's like math.</p>
<p>now that i'm in at Stan, I await MIT, though I prefer Stan.</p>
<p>@wildchartermage</p>
<p>haha wanna trade? i got deferred from MIT EA, but its my first choice.</p>
<p>@ itsme123: Lol, thank you! My major is biology/mathematics, though not entirely sure, but those are what I put on my application. Those three schools are def good at math, no doubt, but stanford and MIT's biology are also what I like. :)</p>
<p>Ngolsh314: Hmm.......nah. I'm pretty content with my MIT acceptance. :) Well, you got deferred because I was accepted. lol. But I could get rejected from stanford and you get a spot at stanford. :p</p>
<p>UPDATE: today i received my fin aid letter ( expected more!). how about you ngolsh, prettykitty and others?</p>
<p>not yet, but i got my letter shortly after you, so it should be in the mail. what was yours dated? our letters were dated the same, so i don't see why these wouldn't be.</p>
<p>just says February 2009. you should get in today or so.</p>
<p>i don't like the fact that outside scholarships come out of Stanford's share after "student's" part. basically any scholarship i will get goes to help Stanford, not my parents! sucks!</p>
<p>do you know if MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Yale policy is different with regards to outside scholarships.</p>
<p>That "student first, then school, then and only then parents" policy is typical of many schools' outside scholarship policies. I know it is that way at HYP. I've never checked MIT's policy but would guess it is the same.</p>
<p>However, HYP and Stanford have the most generous need-based FA around. I don't know how MIT is with FA.</p>
<p>It is BS to say that a public university is necessarily easier than an ivy. My dad was a professor at a state school and I saw some of the lousy grades he gave out.</p>
<p>MIT's FA policy is generous as well as HYP's fin aid policies.</p>
<p>What was your High School GPA? What was your rank in your school too?</p>
<p>^4.00 (uw) and 1/500+ public</p>
<p>Looks like likely letters have started to come out(in the past 2 days or so). if you check on the Stanford 2013 group on FB, theres a guy saying he got one.</p>
<p>itsme123, when did you send in your fin. aid stuff? i'm wondering how long it took them to get you your letter.</p>