<p>I'm going to have a heart attack.</p>
<p>/thread</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s really set in for me, yet. Stanford is an idealized concept somewhere in the back of my brain.</p>
<p>It probably won’t be tangible until the first time I step foot on that campus when I go visit.</p>
<p>same^</p>
<p>i think i’m going to visit next week since i’ll be in the area (skiing at lake tahoe for spring break, about 3 hrs away)</p>
<p>i dont know if i will be able to go to admit weekend though :(</p>
<p>^^Admit Weekend is going to be sick! You should convince your parents, though if you just visited, that might be hard to do…lol.</p>
<p>Anyway, I simply cannot believe it…a 7.5% admittance rate and I got chosen, how??? Lol. Stanford has always been my favorite school, but this fall, when I actually started researching it, I went into major obsession mode. haha. I can’t imagine myself any other place. Lol, I haven’t visited yet, so I guess I shouldn’t really be saying that, but…</p>
<p>Anyway, I’ll tell my story of how I found out that I was accepted because I can’t really sleep right now…</p>
<p>Okay, so ealrier today I saw the thread like, “I think I just got into Stanford” blah blah blah, and I was like, “hmm, what is this?” SO, I looked into it and tried my ID again (it hadn’t worked last week), but it recognized me this time. Not gonna lie, this got my hopes up. I got home after track and was telling my mother about this, and then all of the sudden an email notification popped up in the bottom right corner of my screen. “Your Stanford Admissions Decision” it said. I hesitated, but eventually clicked and open and my eyes went right to the 2nd part of the first sentence, “it gives me very special pleasure to offer you admission to Stanford’s Class of 2013.” I showed my parents and my mom was like, “is this real? is this real?” and I clicked the link to the webpage and then she finally believed me. Lol. </p>
<p>I am so excited for Admit Weekend and, in all probability (I think I’ll choose Stanz), next year!</p>
<p>I knowww i keep saying. 7.5. HOWW??? am i really that special? ***hax. i see so many people with perfect stats, and i just say yo myself, " o heyyy my SAT score is like 300 points lower than that haha</p>
<p>i was typing a current event for my government class, and all the sudden my friend texted me. She said “did u hear from stanford today?” and i was like nahh i dontt think they came out today. curious, i checked my email just in case and o hai, there it was. clicked, getting myself ready for “we regret to inform you” but nopeee. i was started making this really loud screaming/yelping/cheering noise and ran around the house. proceeded to run outside and yell “I GOT INTO STANFORD.” this little girl in my neighbors yard just stared at me like ***? then i started sweating profusely from the adrenaline and massive facebook notifications after i put “i got into stanford!” as my status. It is now 12:18, and i have a 2 page german paper to type and a test to study for. yea!</p>
<p>^^Lol, nice. Do you think that 7.5% is the lowest out of HYPS this year?</p>
<p>H had 7%. But 7 v. 7.5% seems inconsequential. Stanford had the most apps out of HYPS.</p>
<p>Y also had something like 5.4% for RD.</p>
<p>WHAT??!! das crazyyyy</p>
<p>^^Yeah, seriously?? How would that even be?</p>
<p>Initial admission rates:</p>
<p>Harvard – 7.0%
Yale --7.5%
Stanford – 7.6 %
Princeton — 9.79%
MIT – 10.2%</p>
<p>I think Stanford did it on purpose not to pass Yale’s. And the yield should change once they start to accept from the waitlist.</p>
<p>I think Stanford’s RD admit rate is lower also. Remember it accepted about 600 in SCEA round.</p>
<p>Only overall admission rate counts. Now, the next step is to fight for the cross-admits.</p>
<p>I was responding to the person who noted Yale’s RD admit rate.</p>
<p>^^Why would Stanford try to stay higher than Yale’s?</p>
<p>It is like running, you don’t want to lead when you are too far from the end. Now, it is the other way around to see how many will come. Yield is very important to the school – a test whether they did the right thing or not.</p>
<p>HYS leads the pack, Princeton is becoming just another ivy. Columbia is becoming very strong, followed by MIT and Brown.</p>
<p>I am sure this time the fight for the cross-admits will be among HYS, rather than HYPSM in last year.</p>
<p>Princeton is just another Ivy? MIT is a follower? The fight will be among HYS? Those are pretty broad generalizations (and not accurate in my daughter’s case). On what do you base your insights?</p>
<p>Sorry if my words are too harsh. It is based on the admission rates for this year. Just can’t get everyone’s number out yet, but I will try. so far, HYS have 7+% admission rates, Princeton and Columbia have 9.8%. MIT is about 10%. I will give more details on this when it becomes available. Admission rate is the initial indication to say which school is difficult to get in, people tend to go to one which is harder to get in.</p>
<p>^^I disagree with your generalized analysis. MIT’s admissions, although their rate is higher than their peers, seems to be more selective (at least for guys, anyway). MIT doesn’t get the “well, why not apply for the heck of it?” that schools like Harvard do. Caltech is similar. Both of these schools have very self-selecting applicant pools. And in terms of my school, no one (out of 1000 each year) has gotten into MIT the past three or four years. People have given up applying there. OTOH, Stanford gets a couple admits each year, Yale gets like five (seven this year) and Harvard gets a few as well. </p>
<p>Although you may disagree with my conclusion that MIT is the most selective (despite their high % admittance) I hope you take into account the fact that acceptance rates are not all in all in terms of selectivity.</p>
<p>^^I agree to a certain extent. I am not sure if I’d say MIT is the most selective, but I wouldn’t really know how to determine that. I just don’t think people will choose the school that with the lower acceptance rate…that’s ridiculous, I really hope people don’t do that. But they may do.</p>