<p>If I apply early action to Stanford and am rejected, will I automatically be entered into the regular decision pool? Can I still apply for regular decision?</p>
<p>Noooooooooooooooooooooooooop
sucks, right?</p>
<p>No, if you are rejected EA you will no longer be considered for admission, and there is no appeal from what I understand. However, if you are deferred EA you will be considered with the RD pool.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the percent of EAs accepted, deferred, and rejected?</p>
<p>I don’t have the exact numbers, but I know the percentage of Stanford '13 RDs accepted was less than 8 percent and the percentage of EAs accepted was a bit higher, but the common wisdom seems to be that the EA pool is wildly competitive (not to take away from the fact that the RD pool is also amazing), and Stanford seems to prefer to keep a shorter deferred list than Yale, for example, meaning that even highly qualified candidates may be rejected rather than deferred EA.</p>
<p>Hmmm, ok. Do you think I should EA or RD? </p>
<p>Just to put things in perspective, on paper as far as numbers go, I look pretty good on paper: 2330 SAT I, 4.5+ GPA, and rank 1. However, my weakness is my personal statement:trying not to be trite and making the essay flow well.</p>
<p>You look great on paper. I wish I could tell you what to do, but there is no way to predict with any certainty whether you will have a better outcome through EA or RD. I would suggest looking through the list of Stanford applicants who posted their results after applying EA last year. I believe applicants with hooks seem to fare the best through EA, and perhaps unhooked applicants get a longer look during RD, but not everyone believes that; it’s just the opinion I have formulated based on the “snapshot” this forum provides. Whatever you decide, I wish you all the best!</p>
<p>I application will see yours in the EA pool! I do not look anywhere near as great as you look on paper. However, I have killer essays plus a ‘hook’ that will hopefully get me noticed. As I understand it, there is a much larger percentage of applicants who are accepted in EA than in RD, but it may be correct that the EA pool is much more competitive than RD.</p>
<p>The way I see it, admissions—whether EA or RD—are always competitive at Stanford. Most of the pool will have numbers like yours. Good luck to you!</p>
<p>Good idea! Thank you very much for all your help, mamae.</p>
<p>Sorry for my ignorance, but what are you guys talking about with these “hooks”? The only hook-related aspect of college admissions I can think of would be a hook in an admissions essay, meaning the essay is interesting or ends well or whatever- is that it?</p>
<p>@pingpong2010- A hook is like the fact that a person is a minority, first generation, concert pianist, or published author etc. For school’s like Stanford you more or less need one because the majority of applicants have pretty good profiles (great credentials academically and otherwise)</p>
<p>@chumpchange- here’s how the numbers work out:</p>
<p>According to Stanford’s website - Overall: 30,428 7.9%
Another site said that the SCEA acceptance rate was 16.1%</p>
<p>If these numbers are correct, we can assume that a higher percentage of EAs get admitted than RDs. Also, from what I hear a fewer number of people apply SCEA … so really in the end it makes no difference. It just comes down to how amazing you are to the peeps at stanford. If you feel that you’re a competitive applicant (not necessarily a shoo-in, but at least note worthy) then it really comes down to whether Stanford is your first choice or not. If you have no desire to apply early anywhere else, then I would go for it. But also keep in mind that EA is not like ED… you can also apply to your other schools RD if you want to (don’t have to worry about feeling blocked in).
hope that helps.</p>
<p>The REA rate isn’t quite that high: 12.8%, compared to 6.4% for RD. Still a big difference, still not so big when you consider the relative strength of the applicant pool.</p>
<p>@whoaness- thanks for the info about hooks. Does being Asian count as a minority? From what I’ve heard, Asian isn’t a minority at Stanford. But it isn’t Caucasian, right? And actually, I’m half Asian, half Caucasian- will that make me minority?</p>
<p>no you are not a minority, lol</p>
<p>haha. when they say minority they mean underrepresented minorities. And unfortunately if you’re Indian, Chinese, or White you aren’t exactly a URM.</p>
<p>It’s so hilarious to me that everyone wants to be as white as possible all the time and then wants to be a minority long enough to fill out college apps</p>
<p>Lol, I know exactly what you mean. My race isn’t really apparent from my appearance (common guesses are Hawaiian, Mexican, and Persian, all of which are totally wrong), so my whole life I’ve kind of latched onto my grandpa (a German Jew) and claimed to be white. Now that college has come along, I’ve definitely experienced a cultural reawakening. :P</p>
<p>Too bad you can’t apply to other schools EA while also applying to Stanford EA like the person before said because Stanford’s EA is Restrictive, meaning you can only apply to their school early.</p>