<p>Since I've seen scattered information about when Stanford will be notifying its SCEA applicants this week, I thought I'd make this single thread. Does anyone have any kind of official information on when Stanford will be notifying its applicants? Has anyone called the admissions office?</p>
<p>I've called the admissions office; The SCEA applicants will be notified by EMAIL on FRIDAY MID-AFTERNOON. They will also send out paper notifications on that day too. The admissions representative that I talked to had no idea whether the email would directly contain the "Accept/Differ/Reject" notification or whether it would have a login and password to a separate site (like axess) where we can check our admission status.</p>
<p>Source: Recording on Stanford's Admissions Office phone and admissions representative.
Admissions Office Phone number: (650)723-2091, press 1 after the welcome screen.</p>
<p>The other threads have already come to the conclusion that the email will be sent at or around 2 PM PST (which = 5 PM EST) on Friday 12/14.</p>
<p>Quoting myself</p>
<p>So do we all agree that the email will be sent on 2:00 PST and 5:00 EST</p>
<p>Based on the facts that
1) Last year, the decisions were mailed out on 5:00 EST
2) Autoreply indicates that the email will be sent in mid-afternoon
3) Admissions say the emails will be sent at 5:00 (no indication of zone)</p>
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<p>yikes that means I'll just be getting out school as decisions are posted. that'll be an interesting drive home, haha.</p>
<p>lol the person speaking on the automated phone system at Stanford sounds like a grumpy old man.</p>
<p>Same here, pommery. I can check email on my phone, but I'll just wait till I get home on Friday.</p>
<p>my counselor told my friend who applied SCEA that the email itself will contain the accept/defer/reject information. so take one big deep breath before opening it!</p>
<p>If that's true hbart, I'm turning off my Gmail "snippets" feature right now. Definitely want to prepare myself before I have to face the truth!</p>
<p>^ I agree... seeing the decision even before opening the e-mail would be very disappointing, either way.</p>
<p>Whoa.. I didn't even know you could turn them off!! Thanks for the info, I totally just did that. : )</p>
<p>Tubaman: It's really sad. When I called Stanford last month, I was turned off by that voicemail message. However, I was even more shocked when I got a live person because it was the same exact guy. </p>
<p>Is he like the Admissions Director or something? If so, I'm quite impressed that he was answering the phones himself during the first week of November.</p>
<p>^^lol at turning off snippets on gmail, i did that too this weekend :)</p>
<p>I'm just worried that my Gmail notifier will pop up and say "Dear KateM, you've been..." and then when I try to open it my computer will freeze! Something similar happened to me once when I tried to check an important email and I had to restart my computer. Not a fun experience....</p>
<p>lol, i turned off my gmail notifications too..dont want any surprises...</p>
<p>"Dear Joe Applicant, you've been..."</p>
<p>BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.</p>
<p>That would suck, big time.</p>
<p>so if theyre sending off the post mail on friday, does that mean we get the mail on saturday if i live in the west coast (washington)?</p>
<p>Cause it would suck if i have to wait till monday.</p>
<p>i'm debating if i want to read the email on my phone at work... i'm scheduled to work from 4-9, and in my time zone results are scheduled to come out at 4. if i don't read them, i'll be antsy and distracted all five hours. if i get in, i'll be excited of course and maybe distracted as well. if i get rejected, i think i have already come to peace with it so it would be fine. there is always the chance i get super depressed though, and work is not the place to do that. ahhhh i don't know what to do...</p>
<p>Volleysnap, if it were me, I guarantee you I would agonize over the decision all the way until your shift, decide to check afterwards, then check anyway within the minute.</p>
<p>If you can hold out that long, mad props!</p>
<p>I too just turned off my snippets. Any idea if the subject of the email will give it away? God I hope not.</p>
<p>good question! it would be so mean for them to say something about accept/deny in the subject line haha. so would the subject line always be the same regardless of the decision?</p>