<p>Thanks a lot, Tokenadult. This again shows the unpredictability of college admission. A lot of people thought that Stanford was going to have a huge increase of EA applicants.</p>
<p>This is good news. Thanks!</p>
<p>Hopefully its good news.</p>
<p>Do you guys think that because other schools are getting much more early applicants, they will accept more, or about the same as previous years?</p>
<p>I don't see how this WONT be good news for us. I'm really happy because I'm from NJ (from which Stanford doesn't see too many applicants I presume) and I didn't want Stanford thinking that I wanted to EA Harvard or Princeton (which I really dont, I'm not even applying to Harvard lol)</p>
<p>im from NJ too :)</p>
<p>Wow, I hope this is good news. I also wonder if they will be accepting more applicants or if it will be the same from last year. Does anyone know what it's called when they over accept to account for the kids who don't accept their offers to attend? I believe colleges over accept in order to off set the number of kids who end up accepting elsewhere. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I am guessing (but it's only a guess) that they will do the same thing Yale is planning to do (see the yale board for the Yale Daily news article from yesterday) ie: admit the same number of people early. </p>
<p>(Yale's EA apps were up 36% - so they also didn't see a huge increase, though its not tiny)</p>
<p>So this year itll be the same difficulty getting in? This is so great.</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>amazing... yale, georgetown, notre dame and others had 30%+ increases which i think will play a big part in their acceptance rates.</p>
<p>This is great news for everyone applying to stanford. Everyone expected a huge increase with stanford's, but almost no change at all?! It must be that west coast factor.</p>
<p>I was somewhat skeptical that SCEA applications for Stanford would rise this year as a result of eliminations of early programs at Harvard and Princeton. Sure, they're peer schools, but they're on opposite sides of the country. Notice that the schools that had a large increase in SCEA applications are on the East Coast.</p>
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<p>I'd think the opposite, actually, since NJ is a competitive state and has some of the best applicants. A large number probably do apply to Stanford, though I could be wrong.</p>
<p>can someone answer post 7 please. Do you know what its called when colleges "over accept" students to accomadate for the ones who deny the acceptance? how does this work? are our chances better?</p>
<p>This is quite interesting. I too, expected a surge in early Stanford applicants.</p>
<p>The SAT state reports </p>
<p>College-Bound</a> Seniors 2007 </p>
<p>and ACT state reports </p>
<p>ACT</a> National and State Scores for 2007 </p>
<p>for each state show where students send their score reports when they are applying to colleges. Some colleges have a stronger out-of-state draw than others. Some colleges are hot in one state, and not in another. Most students apply and attend near to home.</p>
<p>Kyledavid, you're right I should qualify my statement. NJ fields a lot more HYP applicants than Stanford applicants. Thus I would think there would be a chance that Stanford might think that I'd prefer the east coast than the west coast and would have wanted to apply early to Harvard or Princeton (a NJ school itself)</p>
<p>How many did Stanford accept last year?</p>
<p>My library had an information page about Stanford. It said that about 54% were from California and 28 were from NJ. TX had 90 or so. NY had ~50.</p>
<p>These included RD, I think.</p>
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<p>Class Profile '07
Undergraduate</a> Admission | Class Profile - Fall 2006</p>
<p>congrats to everyone here from a Yale SCEA applicant. haha, I didn't think that stanford applications wld rise either, but I chose yale over stanford cause stanford isn't need-blind to internationals, and it'd be extremely hard to get in as it is, even if EA apps remained steady.</p>
<p>Isn't it little strange that except Stanford all other top colleges got higher percentage of early applications this year?
I think Stanford has established a name for being obnoxious. First of all the acceptance rate is too low. Unlike other colleges, Stanford defers a few, reject most of the applications.
I guess the scea'ers didn't want to take chances on Stanford.</p>
<p>^Or it could be that Stanford is, essentially, the only purely top early admissions school that is on the West coast. There's no doubt in my mind that geography was a factor.</p>