<p>Awwww, smewshie-- we are the 95% ;). I’m sure you’ll be okay! 
It’ll heal, like all broken hearts do, and you’ll forget about Stanford and find another school to be happy at! Where all did you apply?</p>
<p>You’re right. I just don’t want to go to any other school. Agh, this is frustrating. The only other school that I applied to was San Diego State and I got in. I don’t know if I want to go there, though. I’ll probably just go to CC.</p>
<p>Well, at least we tried.</p>
<p>i got waitlisted… and to be honest I was completely schocked. My GPA is 4.7, but my ACT score is a 27, so I have no freaking clue how this happened! My essays were good tho and I am someone who migrated to the US from Ecuador in 8th grade.</p>
<p>You are considered an URM.</p>
<p>How are wait listed applicants prioritized?
Our daughter is waitlisted. Recognizing that very few (if any) waitlisted students move into the “accepted” category, can someone please tell me the system by which waitlisted applicants are prioritized to move into the accepted category? Is it random or are the waitlist candidates ranked somehow? Do Arts, legacy, sports, recent awards, etc help at this point?</p>
<p>Also: are all waitlist decisions released in one notification cycle, or is it in phases as the class of 2016 fills? </p>
<p>Thanks in advance to anyone who knows the answers.</p>
<p>I still haven’t gotten my email )):</p>
<p>Dafaed, I believe that Stanford follows the same wait-listing practices as Harvard. The applicants that are wait-listed are not ranked. Instead, if the admissions committee sees that the class of 2016 is not filling up, they go to the wait list and re-examine each applicant again in a tabula rasa fashion. Meaning they just start again.
They only go to the wait list if their class size doesn’t fill up even with their over estimation (they accept more than their class size of ~1750, they accept 2500 knowing that approximately 1750 will matriculate). If less than 1750 matriculate, they go to the wait list and begin to accept.
Wait list decisions may occur anywhere from mid-April to early July… so your daughter should send in her SIR (statement of intent to register) at her school choice, and cancel it if she gets into Stanford. Note that wait-list acceptances are slim to none, and can be anywhere from 0% to 10%. Last year it was 40/999= 4%.
Legacy does not help at this point, but any VITAL new information may boost her chances (e.g, she created a non-profit organization, gotten a state/national award, etc.)
Sources: [The</a> Undergraduate Program: Stanford University Facts](<a href=“http://facts.stanford.edu/undergraduate.html]The”>http://facts.stanford.edu/undergraduate.html)
[College</a> Wait Lists: Using Last Year’s Statistics To Predict This Year’s Odds Of Admittance ? Ellen Richards Educational Services](<a href=“http://www.ellenrichardseducationalservices.com/college-admissions/college-waitlists-using-last-years-statistics-to-predict-this-years-odds-of-admittance/]College”>http://www.ellenrichardseducationalservices.com/college-admissions/college-waitlists-using-last-years-statistics-to-predict-this-years-odds-of-admittance/)</p>
<p>Gabalexandra, those of us (including myself) who have not received an email will have to call 1(650) 723-2091 between the hours of 8:30AM - 5:00PM PDT. The email bounced and didn’t reach us due to complications, and we will have confirm our email and they will send it again. (Note: They will not tell you the decision over the phone.) Let’s just hope that this complication has no correlation with their decisions, meaning that this doesn’t mean that we got rejected or wait listed. Good luck tomorrow!</p>
<p>Okay! Thank you so much, I’ve been worrying all weekend!</p>
<p>No problem, stay calm 
I was worrying for quite some time as well.</p>
<p>I believe limitlessrx has it just about right</p>
<p>Thank you to LimitlessRx and Stanford78 on your waitlist wisdom. Very helpful!</p>
<p>P.S. to Stanford78 - I am Stanford '80 - we may well have met. . .</p>
<p>If you were ever at The O, The Goose or Zots then no doubt…</p>
<p>Glad to help. And oh, we have two alumni :O</p>
<p>For those like smewshie who forgot to make sure of a safety school you liked…take your best option and plan for a transfer application to a school you really like for 2014 transfer admission. In California, the UC’s have very active transfer programs and many top-ranked graduates of UCB, UCLA, UCSD, etc. are transfers from SU’s and even CC’s. </p>
<p>If community college is your only option, most of the UC’s (Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz) have a GUARANTEED transfer program! With help from your CC counselor (and they are the BEST!) you could be prepared to move up (and save your family a TON of money). Read up on the programs for each specific UC and make your choices on that basis (some limit to “local” CC’s, some limit applicable majors, each have different academic requirements)</p>
<p>For instance:
[Transfer</a> Admission Guarantee: Fall 2013](<a href=“http://www.ucsd.edu/prospective-students/transfers/prep-programs/tag.html]Transfer”>http://www.ucsd.edu/prospective-students/transfers/prep-programs/tag.html)</p>
<p>Stanford is way better as a grad school, anyway.</p>
<p>Accepted the wait is over…</p>
<p>@nonesuch: If you’re not attending a cc in California, how do you know which credits will transfer?</p>
<p>yay! rejected! now what to do with that free stanford shirt they gave me. :P</p>
<p>I’m a Stanford reject but I still went for a college visit this week and bought myself two Stanford shirts.</p>
<p>Stanford is not just a school, it’s a LIFESTYLE. :P</p>
<p>^Wow you must really love Stanford haha.</p>