is EA worth the risk?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Debating, with other friends, wheather EA at stanford is worth the risk. Look at the stats! Half gets rejected?? Anyone can find other data for 2004 or 2005?</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ophs.opusd.k12.ca.us/Counseling/early_decison.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ophs.opusd.k12.ca.us/Counseling/early_decison.htm&lt;/a>
A Sampling of Admit Rates for "Single-Choice Early Action" in 2003!</p>

<p>Stanford (4100+) – Admitted: 19.5% (800) – Deferred: 30% (1230) – Rejected 50% (2050)
Yale (4046) – Admitted: 16.5% (668) – Deferred: 42.9% (1736) – Rejected: 38.4% (1554)
Harvard (3889) - Admitted: 23.3% (906) – Deferred: 70.4% (2737) – Rejected: 4.2% (165)</p>

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<p>Wow Harvard has really nice EA stats. Go with them!</p>

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<p>lol.. why don't you go with them</p>

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<p>I doubt that someone rejected EA would've made it had he/she applied RD instead.</p>

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<p>lol...because I don't like it when my peers razorblade pages out of my textbook.</p>

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<p>lol Ashveer where did you ever post your stats?</p>

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<p>Ugh, I don't think I ever did, but I am def. competitive for Stanford.
I'm EA at stanford.
I like Stanford a lot, but I have already accepted that it's just college, so if I end up at Bizerkeley, I'll be just as happy.</p>

<p>The one stat that I will give you is that I got a 6 on the IB Social and Cultural Anthropology exam, which was the crowning moment of my jr. year.</p>

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<p>Is 6 best on the IB? sorrie i'm not familiar with that</p>

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<p>Sorry, I forgot that its not well known. Don't be sorry at all. There are only 30,000 IB kids worldwide, which is a VERY small number considering all the high school students worldwide. A 7 is the highest score, but I was crazy over my 6, because I liked anthropology and studied it because I loved it, not because it was on the test.
Unfortunamente, I didn't get a 7 because my 1st answer of the test went in ONE HUGE circle. I remember thinking "crap, there goes my chance of passing"
The thing about IB tests is that there is no mult choice (except for higher level sciences, if I'm correct). I know there wasnt any on my math exam. So it's def. nuts, especially anthro, because you may have to recall something that was mentioned on only one page of one of the books that you read.</p>

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<p>Your logic for EA being risky is so incorrect that I doubt you have the intellect to gain admission to Stanford. </p>

<p>Please explain to me how EA becomes risky if they reject over half the people who apply?</p>