<p>Hey, I’m a bay area kid applying early to Stanford. I want to major in chemical engineering. We’ll see what happens!</p>
<p>I’m so disappointed! I can’t apply to Stanford early like i want because my ACT score is quite mediocre (27). Do you guys agree that I should wait until the regular round so I can pull up my score? Because even a 27 as a minority won’t cut it.</p>
<p>@arrness, I am applying for International Relations. </p>
<p>^I do think you should wait for regular and try to pull up that score. Out of curiosity, what are your SATs?</p>
<p>@ neuroscience1234: I think you should retake for a better score, and apply RD in the meantime because 1) you’ll have a possibly much higher score and 2) the RD pool is generally not as academically competitive as the SCEA pool. I’m sorry you can’t join us. 
In fact, even as the creator of this thread, I don’t know if I will be applying SCEA after all. Even though I answered all the questions on the supplement, I’m still not satisfied with a couple of my answers and it may take a while for me to revise them, perhaps past the SCEA deadline since I have a ton of other apps to complete.</p>
<p>@ dapotatoman: Yay, another IR person! 
I’m considering a double major with that and some kind of engineering, though the workload will probably end up killing me…</p>
<p>@Calgirl, thanks for the response! I have decided to look at the situation in the “cup half full” perspective. I get more a chance to boost my ACT score, and more time working on the essays. Also, my mid-year report will boost my application a bit.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, good luck to all of you SCEA CC’ers! Though I’m doing regular, I may still lurk around this thread to be nosey lol (:))</p>
<p>I just gotta say that I love the supplemental essay topics.</p>
<p>I’m applying as a planned chemical engineering major.</p>
<p>Nice Apoc!</p>
<p>Hi from Tucson, everyone! Applying EA, too. </p>
<p>When are you submitting your application? As soon as you are done, or waiting until close to Nov 1 and tweaking in the meantime?</p>
<p>I’m thinking of Stanford SCEA as well :).</p>
<p>How competitive is the EA pool? Will it even help me to apply early?</p>
<p>You should only apply early if Stanford is definitely your first choice. Please bear in mind that the SCEA pool tends to be significantly more academically competitive than the RD pool.</p>
<p>Calgirl, assuming Stanford is first choice and are academically competitive, do you think there are many who are denied applying EA who would have gotten in RD?</p>
<p>The official statement from Stanford is that people applying SCEA would have had the same outcome if they had applied RD. But I don’t know about that - there are people with perfect 4.0 GPAs, SAT scores in the upper 2300s, and plenty of extracurriculars who get flat-out rejected in the SCEA round. From looking at the RD results threads, it seems that RD is a bit less brutal - though again, this could be due to the self-selection of the SCEA applicants (i.e. the SCEA pool is more qualified as a whole, therefore SCEA rejects seem to be more qualified than RD rejects).</p>
<p>Wait what?? It’s harder SCEA? So should I apply RD if I want to get in?</p>
<p>Yes SCEA is harder. So, you can wait and apply during RD. Therefore, it gives you additional time raise test scores, if you need to, and write some kick-ass essays.</p>
<p>can someone verify that SCEA is harder…?</p>
<p>I’m not taking any more tests, and my essays should be good to go by then… but i guess if it’s harder RD, then I should wait til then?</p>
<p>I have heard that it is harder, but if you will only be rejected if you would have been rejected RD. If the admissions committee believes you would have a chance RD, they will defer you.</p>
<p>Joinin the party lets see what up</p>
<p>Honestly at this point its all a crapshoot anyways. Cross your fingers and work on your essays.</p>
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<p>This. I honestly believe ECs aren’t as important as people make them out to be - after all, they occupy less than a page on the Common App (and that’s assuming you fill out all the blanks) - while essays can really help to distinguish one applicant from another.</p>