<p>Oh okay, good luck! My payment went through immediately, in case you’re wondering, so I guess the warning is just in case?</p>
<p>I think I might be abandoning all you EA guys and just applying regular instead so I can send in an arts supplement. That early deadline was just way too soon.</p>
<p>^^Ladies and gentlemen, we now officially have our first traitor.
Jk 
I totally understand your position; I thought about moving to RD too.
Good luck! Hope I can meet you at Stanford.</p>
<p>@cherryblossom71
I didn’t see a warning about slow payments, but thanks for wishing me luck! Best wishes to you too!</p>
<p>Aw thanks 
wildcat0, good luck with RD!</p>
<p>Greetings! Have any of you gotten confirmation directly from Stanford (not just the Common Ap confirmation) that they have received your complete application? I assume the deadline doesn’t apply to any school forms or test scores, since you have so little control over when they are uploaded, but does anyone know for sure?</p>
<p>I saw in Stanford’s materials that incomplete SCEA applications are thrown out rather than being converted to RD, so S wants to be sure they’ve gotten everything they need. ;-D</p>
<p>Stanford Credentials sent me an email where they told me to go on axess to check my application status I just put in my email address and in like 10 minutes they sent me another email telling me what documents they have received and had been processed and which ones where missing. They included everything common app, supplement, sat and act test scores etc.</p>
<p>Thanks, @raqbau!</p>
<p>How long after you submitted the Common Ap did that email arrive?</p>
<p>Happy I could help! ummm… if i remember correctly about 5 days after I submitted the payment and they downloaded it.</p>
<p>Thanks! That probably means S won’t have the info soon enough to help for his October 15 deadline, but at least he should know in awhile if they didn’t get everything by then.</p>
<p>yup, good luck to your son!</p>
<p>@raqbau - And good luck to you as well! </p>
<p>You can all be so very proud of everything you’ve accomplished to arrive at these applications, no matter what the outcome is, plus you can be proud of how proactive you were in completing SCEA. </p>
<p>Hope you are all classmates next year! ;-D</p>
<p>Whew! submitting the supplement, and the common app was one of the most stressful tasks i’ve done with my mouse and keyboard. I kept on PREVIEWing and PREVIEWing…</p>
<p>Anyway, I finally sent in my application. To all the people who are submitting arts supplements, i’m curious as to what did you send in? I submitted auditions in double bass and conducting(is that under instrument or other), it’s weird because
Stanford is the only school I’ve seen so far specifying on a conducting audition.</p>
<p>I sent an arts supplement for violin, played Paganini Violin Concerto No.1.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any idea what, if any, impact the Arts Supplement has on admissions decisions? </p>
<p>For example, does/can the music program pull for particular students who play an instrument that’s in short supply for the orchestra or jazz band? Are specific musicians or artists ever scouted/recruited for Stanford? Do they favor kids who do live auditions over those who submit DVDs? Do they ever defer a SCEA musician to see if someone better at their specific instrument applies RD?</p>
<p>I suppose none of us know the answers to these questions, but does anyone have any anecdotal evidence? Very few kids from my S’s school have ever been admitted to Stanford so I have no real experience to draw on.</p>
<p>timothyhses, I sent in an arts supplement for piano (Debussy Arabesque No.1 and Haydn Sonata in C# Minor) and one for drawing/painting, which was just 10 prints of my art in a variety of media. It took me I think literally two hours last night to finally submit the Common App, because I previewed just as many times as you did, in all the different screens :P</p>
<p>MomCares, I don’t know exactly how the arts supplement affects admissions decisions, but I am fairly sure that Stanford doesn’t favor live auditions over recorded submissions (it was stated on the site somewhere) since live auditions are held in so few places in the nation.</p>
<p>MomCares, I agree with you that no one can actually know what goes on in the admissions committee or music submissions. However, regarding instruments that are in short supply, I think it’s helpful in the extent that it would be easier to stand out in said field. Popular instruments are almost always more competitive because of the larger pool of candidates, but that doesn’t mean criteria is significantly different, it just means it would be easier to catch their eye playing well on the trombone than on the piano.</p>
<p>Eucliiris, cherryblossom71: Having said that, I still think the submissions you sent in are all awesome pieces of music. Are you planning on joining the orchestra or performing chamber music in Stanford? (how is the orchestra anyway?)
I noticed that the music department offers private lessons for non music majors, just at a very high price. I don’t know the quality of the faculty though. Of course, all this wouldn’t be an actual problem if I can’t get my double bass on campus…</p>
<p>If I get accepted, I will see how good Stanford’s orchestra is before deciding. I heard some people say that it is so good that it’s even hard to get into, and I have heard others say that only few players are good and the rest struggle just coming the rehearsals every other week.</p>
<p>Just submitted! And now it’s out of my hands. I am also doing an arts supp. I’ll be at Stanford for a live vocal audition on the 20th (5 days ahhh).
Timothyhses - haha I play trombone. best instrument! unfortunately I will not be sending in a supp for it. Just focusing on voice.</p>
<p>iman123194, ha absolutely, trombones are so awesome and rare in our orchestra (cause most go to the band) that they’re treated like kings. Good luck on your live audition!</p>
<p>So is it confirmed that live auditions don’t provide any benefit over recorded ones? Even if you actually live near Stanford?</p>