Official Stanford "Early Approval" Letter Thread

<p>I'm from Oklahoma, and I got one of these early acceptance letters this Monday. Like everyone else, my envelope had a letter the had "Come to Stanford!" signed on the bottom. Also included was my financial need letter (none, unfortunately) and a 10-page outlining the school's financial aid policies. Has anyone verified these letters yet, and if they are real, about how many students recieved one? I was pretty excited about receiving one, although the prospect of going $200,000+ into debt kinda sucks.</p>

<p>verified and real, man. i emailed them to make sure :)</p>

<p>if you don't mind me asking, what income bracket are you in? the fact that you got nothing makes me nervous...</p>

<p>My son received one in Texas today. The letter is dated Feb. 27th. The big envelope also contained the "come to Stanford" note and the financial aid info.</p>

<p>ngolsh314,</p>

<p>My family's income is just over $80k a year. The problem is that my parents are self employed. Thus, they have been saving for their retirement for years, be it through stocks or bank accounts. Unfortunately, this is calculated into my financial need, so because of the savings I will not recieve any aid. After the whole economic meltdown, our savings totals about $400k, with about half of that put into their retirement account and the rest going to my college fund, their business account, insurance fund, etc. Hope this helps out.</p>

<p>Are we pretty sure that they are done sending these mothers?</p>

<p>no idea. if they keep sending them as they evaluate all the apps, they should still be trickling out 'till all of them are looked at at least once...</p>

<p>Ok seriously all of your arguements for why they are fake are completely illegitimate. When I got mine, I both emailed them and called them (because they even give you contact information!) and got the same response both times. They said that never has a student recieved one of these letters and been rejected come April 1. You're all paranoid! lol</p>

<p>Just out of curiosity are most of you who got these letters athletes or just super amazing?</p>

<p>I'm sadly not an athlete.
Haha.
And as for super amazing, not really.
My scores weren't too great, but I was heavily involved throughout high school.
(in 6 or 7 clubs for all 4 years, and officer of 5 of those, plus a lot lot lot of community service)
And I really liked my letters of rec. :)
My acceptance(especially through a likely letter) was really shocking (:</p>

<p>So out of the people who recieved these early approval letters, what are your intended majors so far? Mine is Chemical Engineering</p>

<p>Mine's Biology.</p>

<p>I'm into Computer Engineering/Comp Sci. I want to concentrate on robotics.</p>

<p>Proof biznatches >>>> stanfordearlyadmitedited.jpg</a> picture by nightmaremc12 - Photobucket</p>

<p>I'm Math/Computer Science.</p>

<p>...and I'm definitely not an athlete.</p>

<p>I'll give $5 to anyone who emails <a href="mailto:admit@stanford.edu">admit@stanford.edu</a> and says, "why the hell did I not get an early approval letter?"</p>

<p>^I'll multiply that by 10.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, I know exactly why I didn't get an early approval letter, haha.</p>

<p>Question:
How can places like Stanford and Harvard (generally, top 5 schools) send out early approval to students but, places like Duke, only sent out "early approval letters" for this Hispanic recruitment weekend deal? They never sent out actual likely letters......It's just odd because, though I am not downgrading Duke's prestige at all, but Stanford had about a 10% admittance rate last year while Duke had about 20% (+). It just seems odd.</p>

<p>^not only that. I know S has sent soooo many of these Early Approvals, I wonder how many are really RD (after EAs). I think they are reviewing applications and if found admissible sending an Early Approval letter. i know someone who got it couple of days ago. remember it all stared early February when i received on dated Feb 2 much to the disbelief of many on this board.
i try not to send a discouraging message, but i know in our city i know of 4 already who got these letters. this town traditionally hasn't sent many to S.
let's keep fingers crossed.</p>

<p>"Let's keep fingers crossed" --> what do you mean?</p>

<p>^not give up.</p>