<p>I applied to stanford as my scea because it was the only school that I felt had an elite education, yet had the environment of a state school (size, sports), was close to the largest concentration of innovators on Earth in Silicon Valley, and last but not least, I loved loved loved looooved the architecture.</p>
<p>Not to mention that as a person living across the country from stanford I really wanted that California, fresh start, experience as opposed to being at a school with people I knew well</p>
<p>@harborceal: 50 degrees is freezing!!! It was less than 30 degrees and snowing over here when you posted that! …although the snow does look pretty…I’ll miss it if I get in.</p>
<p>^Yup, I agree with rocksupper, I’m also from across the country, I want to experience the other coast</p>
<p>Jesus told me to apply.</p>
<p>But on a serious note I had a long an insightful conversation with Lord Krishna.</p>
<p>Haha, funny.</p>
<p>So all of a sudden Mohammed shows up while I’m in the shower, and tells me I’ll get forty virgins if I go to Harvard.</p>
<p>So I applied to Harvard, just in case.</p>
<p>But honestly, Buddha was all like “Yo dis place is da funk! You got innovation and energy and capital and brilliant minds. Ya got California and Silicon Valley, berkeley’s pretty close and Santa Clara too, with the hottest babes in the United States. And of course, most importantly, Stanford’s graduates are currently deciding the future of the human race, so you had better get in there and make some friends to make sure things don’t take a turn for the worse. You thought you were gonna have it easy meditating up in the mountains. Hell Ah No! You ain’t commanding a physiology like you’s got so you could just look at your sexy ass, it’s a tool man! And stanford’s more then just a the sharpener for your knife, it has one of the highest concentrations of human consciousness and intelligence on the planet earth (Boston with MIT, Harvard, Tufts, Boston College, and others is on par) for you to tap into! And you had better get tappin, cause the world sure ain’t looking to pretty for the common man right now, and few other intellectual elite seem to be giving a damn (well, except at Stanford).”</p>
<p>But really, what was most influential in my decision was Stephen Hawking’s quote, “Gahhh science, uhh aliens can’t travel faster than light, gahhh oh **** NASA just created a theoretical model for faster than light travel that requires less energy then a few nuclear bombs… Gahhh if you’re here to do something with your mind and body, why the **** am I here? God can’t exist. Suffering exists. Science. Gahhh…”</p>
<p>Yeh.</p>
<p>And also the new Ferbies just came out which seems really promising for humanity. Oh and Sergey Brin and Larry Page are way cooler than Mark Zuckerberg, that’s a biggie.</p>
<p>Hmmmh… Racking my brains now. Honestly between the whole Jesus, Krishna, Mohammed, Buddha, Hawking and the fact that my older bro’s at Berkeley, it seemed like a good idea to apply. </p>
<p>Course, if I don’t get in there’s always Mcgill. Learn to speak French and everything.</p>
<p>Sexual innuendoes unintended…</p>
<p>Oh, and if anyone wants to start innovating and conversing immediately to form a comprehensive plan to save all conscious experience from suffering (most likely starting with the planet earth, likely with a focus on the human experience) and expand happiness, shoot me a PM.</p>
<p>@anar136 - uhhhh… yep! 
and of course today we were all decked out… rain boots, fuzzy socks, leggings under our jeans, two jackets, scarves… it’s dangerous out there!</p>
<p>So guize last year decisions came out 2 weeks after everyone returned from Thanksgiving. This year, two weeks from Thanksgiving is Dec. 7 because Thanksgiving was exceptionally early since Nov. started on a Thursday. The year before (Class of 2015), decisions were released on Dec. 10, also two weeks after Thanksgiving. I’m too lazy to look up other years, but I see a trend. </p>
<p>I’m becoming delusional and making up things like this in my head. Please let this wait be over soon.</p>
<p>Hahaha harborceal 50 degrees might even be an occasion for just a light sweater, depending on whether it’s sunny out. But yes, I also agree with those people who said they’d like a fresh start without seeing classmates everywhere in college :)</p>
<p>What? Me? Delusional, waiting? I’m not delusional, you’re delusional!</p>
<p>Penguins!</p>
<p>Live in Antarctica.</p>
<p>Yeh I think it’s getting to my head :p</p>
<p>@Holocene</p>
<p>ugh, in some ways though, I’d kind of just like it to be December 14th, so I’m prepared mentally. I would kind of hate to open my inbox and see an email there totally unexpectedly. My heart’s having palpitations just thinking about it.</p>
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<p>There will be a notice on the admissions website the morning of the day that decisions are released. The email won’t be a surprise.</p>
<p>Personally, I’m hoping for the 7th because then I will actually get moving on my other applications :o But I do have an interview with another college at 4 that day and I’m going to a concert that evening, so it would make for a weird day either way. The college interview would be tough whether accepted or rejected.</p>
<p>@Holocene,
That’s a good point, but people don’t check the admissions page at Stanford as often as their e-mail. I, for example, hear a “woosh” sound coming from my phone every time I get an e-mail.</p>
<p>Anyone else have upcoming Oxford interviews to distract you from waiting for Stanford’s decisions?</p>
<p>Did alumni letters from previous years, however, also say the 14th? Or did they say the 7th?</p>
<p>ccuser95 makes a good point with regard to the alumni/legacy letter. This year’s letter specifically said that decisions would be emailed after 3 p.m. Pacific time on Friday, December 14. It’d be interesting to know whether the decisions last year came out days before the date listed in the alumni/legacy letter (which is the letter that every Stanford grad parent gets if his/her kid applies to Stanford, basically warning the alum not to get upset if the kid gets rejected, since it’s a lot harder to get into Stanford these days).</p>
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<p>I believe they said “on or around the 15th” or something.</p>
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<p>They did. </p>
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<p>I got TWO of them. Apparently, both parents needed their own. It was like double depression reading that letter twice.</p>
<p>Oh wow the 7th would be just incredible!!! That’s only 8 days away!!! Gaah, I’m so excited now :D</p>
<p>Gosh, now I’m actually starting to “plan out” the day as if its happening on the 7th… do you guys think Sandy will push it back to the 14th or is there a legit chance of it being early?</p>
<p>Well I’ve often heard that they actually finish the decisions a few days before sending them out, so it seems like even if Sandy does delay their process a little, it shouldn’t ripple to affect when we get our decisions too much. Maybe just wishful thinking haha</p>
<p>Anyone else have an idea?</p>
<p>8-15 days!</p>