<p>Making a thread for all of the people on CC that applied to Stanford Restricted Early Action. Haha, I feel special so I'm going to call it the "Official" one.</p>
<p>Every day, post the # of days left until decisions come out (lets assume Dec 15).</p>
<p>As of Nov. 1 - 44 days. </p>
<p>Feel free to post any thoughts in this thread too, after all, its for the students.</p>
<p>This is going to be a long wait</p>
<p>People are getting nervous already and the submission date hasn't even passed yet. I wonder what it will be like in the few days leading up to decisions.</p>
<p>Sigh. Good luck everybody.</p>
<p>Indeed. I submitted in the 15 minutes before I left for my state trip LOL. Last minute essay changes etc ftw!</p>
<p>-_- I am nervous already. I don't even want to look back at my application now.</p>
<p>I looked back, and without being totally arrogant, I thought mine turned out great. At least I can say that the application was some of my best work. Of course, if I get rejected, it will be all the more devastating, lol.</p>
<p>I'm not sure I like my common app essay. I wrote it in the 4 hours before I submitted it and didn't have time to "think" about it.</p>
<p>And I'm not really sure I want to go back and read it now. But my recs and others essays are fine I think</p>
<p>I liked all of my essays, but I'm a little worried about my Intellectual Vitality one. I took a high risk approach, let's put it that way.</p>
<p>I re-read my essay (lol) and I love the first half and hate the last. I hope my supplemental essays balance it all out :P</p>
<p>This is going to be a very long wait...sigh....</p>
<p>Nov 2 - 43 Days</p>
<p>Has anyone received an e-mail for tracking their application materials?</p>
<p>I haven't received an email for that, but just a while ago I got an email from CommonApp saying my application was downloaded.</p>
<p>43 of the longest days of my life</p>
<p>Does anyone know the Stanford reading process? </p>
<p>Dartmouth is pretty explicit about it (Applying</a> to Dartmouth). I was wondering if anyone had found a similar website or source of Stanford's that outlines all of that?</p>
<p>43 days! Gah. It's okay, it'll go by quick because I know that we all have piles of homework to catch up on that we put off while we crammed those Stanford essays the week before it was due.. =p
Good luck everyone! :D</p>
<p>I've met with the Stanford regional admissions officer for Texas (my home state) a couple of times and this is what I understand from what she (and other informed people) tell me. </p>
<p>1) Your application is read by the admissions officer for your region. He/She is the most important person in the process. If he/she wants you, you'll get i. The regional admissions officer is the most informed person about your school and the others surrounding it so he/she has a good sense of where you rank compared to other applicants from the area.
2) After making up his/her mind, the admissions officer takes your application to a committee. The committee makes the final decision. Most of the time, what the admissions officer decides is what the committee approves. In some cases (like legacy, parents donated large sum of money, music, athletics, etc.), the committee can overturn the admissions officers decision. </p>
<p>Its your regional admissions officers job to advocate for you so that's the person your trying to impress. Like I said, if he/she wants you for Stanford, you'll get in.</p>
<p>I think its likely that another admissions officer reads the application too because one person is just too few.</p>
<p>Does contact with your regional admissions officer matter in terms of admissions? Can you even have contact with them?</p>
<p>Doesn't matter at all at Stanford. I go to a decently well-known private school in Texas and the Stanford admissions officer visits our school every year to answer questions, kind of like a private information session. I've also met her at the regional information session. Nothing that will make her remember my name or anything.</p>
<p>All right, thanks.</p>