<p>haha, okay, so that title's a little obnoxious.</p>
<p>A few days ago, these girls who were 8th graders (!!!) and heard I was going to Stanford approached me out of the blue to ask me how I got in and what it takes, etc. I was in shock for a minute, then admitted I had absolutely no idea. Has this happened to anyone else? </p>
<p>I was just thinking about the whole thing. Its like all these chances threads...the truth is no one knows how to guarantee one's spot in an elite university. i still think stanford made a mistake, despite all their declarations at admit weekend.</p>
<p>people are expecting a magic calculator from those of us who are finishing, and it just doesn't exist! haha, the funny thing was if I had read this a year ago i would probably have blown it off. </p>
<p>it's like losing weight (weird analogy, I know)...everyone wants there to be a magic pill that gives you the perfect body, but the truth is that it's doing all the hard stuff, eating less and exercising more, and even then no results are guaranteed.
sigh, guess this is another random thread. I really have been spending too much time on CC lately (procrastinating majorly on the last few homework assignments---i DO believe in senioritis, i do, i do...)</p>
<p>signifyingnothing, people ask me that all the time. So often now that it is a little frustrating, especially when parents bring it up.</p>
<p>My answer is always the same, "I wish I knew," but nobody accpets that and they think that I am witholding some secret so that they don't get admitted and I can keep Stanford all to myself??!!</p>
<p>I was there about a month ago and...it is nice!!!</p>
<p>I mean, IMO, it is perfect. It has a stronger reputation than many Ivies, great athletics, and an amazing weather. So, in sum, the best of all worlds. </p>
<p>Gotta warn you salsa, when you visit, beware of the bikers...the school should make them get a license or something. It's scary;)</p>
<p>I still dont understand how I got in. I am as mediocre as mediocre can get! but I am so incredibly grateful that I got in. God bless the Stanford Admissions Office!</p>
<p>Among the very top first-tier colleges (HYPSMC), Stanford seems to be the most unpredictable. They consider the intangible parts of the app, such as essays and personal qualities, much more than other schools do.</p>
<p>i guess this is off topic but...anyway....i was talking to one of the teachers that wrote a rec for me the other day and he mentioned how stanford actually called him asking about me and stuff...and i thanked him profusely for saying the right things :P </p>
<p>just kinda curious...did this happen to anyone else?</p>
<p>No ... but random question ... did Stanford make you guys fill out some survey that started off with something like "as one of our most (complimentary word) applicants..."? I thought it was kinda weird...</p>
<p>definitely! I remember, the day decisions came, we had a day off of school - I sat in my room staring at the wall until the mail came. 24 more hours and I would have lost it.</p>
<p>omg the day that I got in. do you all remember your day?? It was the happiest moment of my life when I saw those big red letters on that envelope. I literally cried with happiness.</p>
<p>Oh, I screamed. I had this huge adrenaline rush. My mailbox is about a half mile from my house (my parents like land) and I think I went an unholy speed up my driveway. I had a total psychotic emotional reaction. I wanted it soooo much.</p>
<p>haha, i got the email too! and i'm definitely not one of their most highly qualified applicants.</p>
<p>my main memory of getting the envelope is my dad. I thought the mail hadn't arrived but he was so excited he went out to check w/o asking me (man was i mad about that!) and he comes in with this pile and sets in on my lap and says "i didn't look at anything!" So I start going through really slowly and looking at all the rejection letters I already knew about. And I finally see the envelope and I just smile and show it to him. That's the loudest i've ever heard him. he was yelling and jumping around and high fiving, but i was pretty calm about the whole thing.</p>
<p>I got the international e-mail. The words "Stanford Admission Decision" looked like an invitation to hell. I HONESTLY thought I was going to get rejected, so when I opened the e-mail and saw the first word - Congratulations! - my first words were either "Oh my God!!!" or "What the ****? They've gone mad!!!!" Can't remember which. Then I started crying. I was so happy. My mother didn't even believe me when I told her - thought it was an April fool's joke. My dad, being the unmitigated showoff that he is, called everyone he knew. It was 11:48pm, too.</p>
<p>Cardinal, I'm as mediocre as you can get, too, LOL. But I'm nice so that's why they accepted me :p Oh yeah, I got the e-mail too.</p>
<p>hehe
i got the email about the survey too! n im figuring it was standard email they sent it to everyone cuz i am NONE of the things it said i was..what was it...academical motivated or accomplished or sumthin!! oh that wud be the day! :)
and wen i got the acceptance email, tht was JUST AMAZING! surreal actually cuz i was in school, and all these 1500+ ppl in my school got rejected, and i was jus like oh well! not like id hv gotten in then...so me and a friend went to the compu lab to see wat a rejection letter (!!) reads like, u know like how a uni wud break the sad sad news to over-hopeful applicants (hehe) n waddyaknow! hahahaha...</p>