<p>Congrats, Eucliiris! I’m glad your interview went well 
After Thanksgiving, huh? So they review all the applications in a preliminary round, then go back and narrow it down?</p>
<p>Definitely applying:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia
MIT
Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD</p>
<p>Will apply if deferred/rejected by Stanford:
UPenn
Brown
Johns Hopkins
Smith College</p>
<p>@20tigger17</p>
<p>I got that email the day after I submitted. I gotta say it made me pretty happy even though it was an automatic.</p>
<p>@iman that’s for sure! :)</p>
<p>it makes me a little sad that I could easily drive to one of the interview areas (less than an hour) but they still wont let me</p>
<p>@ trigger and cherry: Thanks! I was rather nervous but I think I did ok
@pitabread: I live 40 minutes away from the city that is listed for interview, but I still got an interview, so maybe you will get one too.</p>
<p>Got confirmation that they got everything.
But oh my god guys this is so stressful I can’t handle the next 6 weeks.</p>
<p>And I’m about to make it even worse on you. Stanford says decision will be out “BY” December 15; last year a friend of mine got it on the 9th.</p>
<p>That means instead of losing sleep the night of the 14th, I’m going to be losing it all of December until the 15th…</p>
<p>Stats are here:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1413174-chance-me-stanford-umich-im-seriously-flipping-out-over-former.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1413174-chance-me-stanford-umich-im-seriously-flipping-out-over-former.html</a></p>
<p>Also this website is really stressful why did I create an account.</p>
<p>So I had my interview today! It went perfectly. Me and my interviewer really clicked and we ended up talking for nearly three hours. I wish the interview held more weight because I feel that it could really help my application, however, I understand that not everyone has the same opportunity. My interviewer did say that it would definitely help, though, so fingers crossed! Good luck to anyone else who has an interview coming up! Make sure you know your stuff about Stanford and have questions prepared to ask the alumni. It’s a fun experience. :)</p>
<p>Wow, I’m really glad it went so well for you!!! Thanks for telling us about it! Oh, I so hope I get an interview…</p>
<p>Nice, wish I could get an interview but I live in CA</p>
<p>And the results have come out on the 9th for the past few years. If Stanford does that again, we’ll be hearing a month from Friday.</p>
<p>Thank you guys! Hope you get an interview too, @20tigger17. :)</p>
<p>
Current student here. I’m pretty sure this is not how it works. All applications are read by at least one person, if I recall every decision has to be approved by the Dean of Admissions. Basically, that initial reviewer will read your application and assign numerical rankings to various categories (essay, ECs, academic, HS quality, test scores, and then check off boxes like legacy, URM, what-not). The applications are then ranked, some students are admitted, and a lot of people cut off at this stage.</p>
<p>If I recall this is where the second reader comes in, to repeat the ranking process. More admit/reject decisions are probably made, and some deferrals happen. </p>
<p>If there is disagreement, or if a case is borderline, then it goes to the committee. This is the image you probably had in mind, with everyone at a table, some heated arguments, and more. Your regional officer is your advocate in this process, so give them a reason to pull for you. I think this is a couple hundred applications at most. </p>
<p>At least that’s how it was told to me by an insider. It also seems to make more sense- 30,000 some applicants times 10 minutes reading application and discussing adds to (if all officers read every application) 300,000 minutes, which equals 500 hours, which equals about 65 days of work, which is 13 weeks or 3 months. Seeing as decisions come out at the end of March (3 months), that would be a super tight time frame. </p>
<p>Also the point of a regional admissions officer is that he or she will have a high degree of familiarity with the towns, high schools, and opportunities available in that area. If every officer read every app, the regional officer would in effect be the one deciding anyway, due to that information gap.</p>
<p>^nice post.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks so much for all of the information @Senior! It’s good to know that someone (the regional officer) might be pulling for us.</p>
<p>That was what the interviewer told me, but if you were told directly from a first hand source, I guess the interviewer only knew vaguely. Thanks for the information.</p>
<p>@senior thanks for the info, how do you like Stanford?</p>
<p>And I’ve never met my regional officer, so hopefully my application doesn’t end up there!</p>
<p>Wish I could interview, but I also live in CA. I did have an interview for another school (Colorado College) and it was good fun. Best of luck to everyone interviewing!</p>
<p>I had a slight mix-up that hopefully won’t be too detrimental: I did research at Stanford last summer. I emailed my PI for a LOR and he didn’t respond, so after a couple weeks I asked my mentor who happily sent one to the admissions office. THEN on Nov. 5 I get an email from my PI, telling me he sent it to the admissions office :o I called and they said to fax them telling which to use. Hopefully they don’t think too much of it.</p>
<p>Other than that, all credentials are processed. I am getting more and more nervous by the day.</p>
<p>Applicant from Ohio here!</p>
<p>My test scores aren’t perfect, but I have a lot of hours under my belt volunteering for the NUMBER ONE ZOO in America! I also serve on the state board of student council as the state president and I founded the robotics team at my school. I feel like my essays were “me,” so we shall see! this is going to be a nerve-racking month and a half.</p>
<p>I had an optional Rec submitted from an adult representative from my state association of student councils, but he sent it to me and I saw that he forgot a number in the middle of my common app ID at the top of the page. given it still has my correct name, high school, and birthdate at the top of the page, would the admissions office still consider it?</p>
<p>Also, for the common app, did you guys submit only ten EC’s on the activities list, or did you also attach the rest of your EC’s on the additional information section of the writing?</p>
<p>Did like everyone here do an additional letter of rec? I did one from my research mentor. It was 3 pages long!</p>
<p>^Ya, I filled up 10 EC’s and added 3 more to the additional info</p>
<p>How many pages of additional info did you people have? I had four pages and I am now concerned that perhaps it was too much. I didn’t repeat stuff from the app, just had a bunch of things to convey wrt my research and community involvement that I couldn’t via the essays. I figured i wont get another shot at “selling” myself for college so what the heck! Thoughts?</p>
<p>I feel like its gonna become a rejection thread real quick on dec 15…</p>