<p>@pitabread78–Why do you think it’s gonna be the 14th???</p>
<p>i told you… im an admissions officer
but really i just think the fact they pushed back the deadline is just gonna make it not incredibly far before the said release date of the 15th. i think they’ll finish reviewing and deciding on the 10th then send out emails on the 14th.</p>
<p>and yeah haginrainbow, we’ll probably meet there since Stanford only has a 6.6% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>For any future SCEA applicants reading this thread in subsequent years, I strongly suggest also applying to Oxford. On the off chance you’re granted an Oxford interview, based on S’s experience it really helps distract you for awhile as you await your Stanford decision. Plus you don’t hear back from them until mid-January, so the distraction can even carry you past whatever result you hear from Stanford in mid-December. And you could opt to increase the distraction even more by flying to Oxford for the interview if you like. ;)</p>
<p>So I just submitted all my application materials yesterday. Am I supposed to get some sort of confirmation form Stanford?</p>
<p>Hey, you may be giving up already and retreating to Harvard, but I still have hope!</p>
<p>I’m going to Stanford next year, whether or not you come along is your choice.</p>
<p>Oh, and if I’m not given admission then I’ll just crash in your dorm while I audit classes, collaborate with students, and participate in activities.</p>
<p>Thanks for the support.</p>
<p>^i’m assuming you’re applying RD wildcat0?</p>
<p>yeah if i dont get in to stanford, im just gonna show up anyways and live in a random kid’s dorm and just go to random classes…theyll never know im not paying tuition!</p>
<p>but i guess harvard is a pretty good backup plan if i actually want to get accepted some where</p>
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<p>At the end of it, be sure to make a photocopy of a diploma, change the name, and frame it for your office!</p>
<p>^not even a bad idea</p>
<p>@ccuser95 yup. RD + arts</p>
<p>Of the 750 or so Stanford accepts under scea, anyone know the percentage of admits under each of:</p>
<ol>
<li>Legacy</li>
<li>Donors</li>
<li>Recruited athletes</li>
<li>URM</li>
<li>First gen college</li>
<li>Low income</li>
</ol>
<p>I wonder after accounting for the above, what % get in solely based on merit/unhooked? Can’t be greater than 25%…</p>
<p>6.</p>
<p>I know that roughly 1/4 or ~25% are URM. You can check out the exact percentages at:
[The</a> Undergraduate Program: Stanford University Facts](<a href=“http://facts.stanford.edu/undergraduate.html]The”>http://facts.stanford.edu/undergraduate.html)</p>
<p>Edit: This is for total admits, not just those accepted for SCEA</p>
<p>Don’t forget that a lot of those hooks overlap i.e. first gen/URM/low income tend to come in threes. Donors are fairly rare, can’t be more than a few. As far as athletes go, you could probably calculate that by looking at the total enrollment of athletes and dividing by 4; that should be fairly accurate because it’s pretty rare to walk onto a sport at stanford. </p>
<p>Legacies are admitted at a rate of about 21% and make up between 10 and 20% of undergrads at most top schools I’ve seen - not sure of the exact number at stanford or how many of those are through SCEA.</p>
<p>Honestly, we are either going to get in or we are not. No sense in analyzing the statistics.</p>
<p>^ I don’t think there are any published statistics on this.</p>
<p>I think most of the students accepted under SCEA are legacy, URM, athletes, and other hooked applicants. The acceptance rate for unhooked applicants is probably similar to the RD acceptance rate, but these are just my guesses. There probably is some self-selection for the SCEA round, but I don’t think unhooked applicants have a better chance SCEA than RD.</p>
<p>Did Stanford ever release the information on how many people applied SCEA. I know the other top-tier colleges have, so I’m wondering what’s keeping them from doing so.</p>
<p>There are about 1000 athletes @ Stanford. Most are admitted SCEA. So about 250 of the early admits are expected to be athletes. <a href=“http://www.fldcu.org/california/stanford-university/[/url]”>http://www.fldcu.org/california/stanford-university/</a></p>
<p>The legacy letter says that legacies have maintained and will continue to maintain an acceptance rate of “more than triple” the normal acceptance rate. Not sure if that’s correlation (legacies more likely to come from private school, have more opportunities???) or causation, but there you have it.</p>
<p>Yeah, don’t underestimate the overall academic strength of legacies. They come from families who value education, etc. I remember someone did a study and showed that Yale legacies had about a 20% acceptance rate at Harvard, where they were unhooked. I’m not sure I legacy helps so much as being a legacy tends to set up curcumstances in which a student can create a great application. I’ll try to find that H/Y legacy study when I get home.</p>
<p>There’s got to be some incremental value to being a legacy beyond having parents who value education. Otherwise we should all stop talking about legacy status as a “hook.” But I know of no clear way of measuring it. As an alum and parent of a current Stanford applicant, I hope it’s more than the 1% bump implied by the data in the prior 2 posts.</p>
<p>And WhiteHouses, I was wondering the same thing. Stanford usually announces the # of its SCEA applicants by this point.</p>
<p>Beyond valuing education, we come from mostly upper middle/upper class households, many attend private school, many have intelligent parents, which tends to lead to intelligent students, etc. Legacies, in general, have a multitude of opportunities that the average american student does not. There are a host of correlation factors. I’m sure there is a slight bump, but I’m I inclined to think that it’s not going to make up for most/any flaws in an application. 20% is not a high acceptance rate, given the factors usually associated with legacies.</p>