<p>You can't have a SUNet ID until you have a student ID, which would be in the admit packet or, presumably, in the online notification. So there is no way that you could create an ID in advance. The references to doing it that are currently on the Admit website are for the Early Admits, who already have their student ID's. </p>
<p>My son already has a SUNet ID, because he's been a student at SSC and is currently interning at Stanford. It will probably actually take him <em>longer</em>, because he won't be able to do the SUNet ID creation online, and will have to contact the computer services folks to modify his current ID status. </p>
<p>You know, the bottom line is that the Ivys are on the east coast, and Stanford is in northern California. People and organizations are astoundingly casual here. Meetings often don't start on time, deadlines get fudged, stuff like that. I bet that Ivy admissions run like clockwork, but STanford is a bastion of northern Californianess, and that's just not the way they do things. At least, that's my take on it. When I first moved to the bay area, it drove me <em>nuts</em>, but I've started to relax about it.</p>
<p>To answer your question about what happens next, my understanding is that admissions/rejection letters will be mailed out at the end of the week, probably Friday. A day or two before they're mailed, students who provided email addresses will get email explaining how to log in to check admissions status, which will be updated "in early April" -- or more specifically, late on March 31. I have never asked anyone in admissions about it, though, because I don't really worry that much about it -- so I may not be accurate. I'm basing this on what my son's EA-admitted friends had happen, and the information we've gotten here. </p>
<p>My impression, BTW, is that the main reason there is an online decision website is that there are so many international applicants, and some of them won't get their paper notification for a while, because of international mailing times, etc.</p>
<p>I've had nothing but good experiences with the folks at Stanford's front office. They've always picked up my calls, I've spoken with the Dean twice now, I always get my emails answered timely. I don't see how your world could be so different. I receive friendly calls from students and staff and they have so far done a nice job of mesmerizing me.</p>
<p>wth is going on
none of this makes sense
i applied rd
someone please tell me just *** i should do
check my email? check my online app? check my mail box? crawl under a rock?</p>
<p>on 12/15/05 Stanford sent me an email that said :</p>
<p>"We will notify you by email of any missing documents if you have provided us
with a valid email address. When we have received all necessary documents, we
will send you a notice by postal mail."</p>
<p>Unless someone secretly infiltrated my mid-year report and recs, they should've got all my forms; yet, I never got a "notice by postal mail" that they received all my documents. Then again, I never got an e-mail that they were missing anything. Did the same thing happen to anyone else? Did everyone get a notice by snail mail? I'm so lost!</p>
<p>lastcall17, I got an e-mail from Stanford dated Feb. 13, 2006 saying they have received all the necessary materials, apparently including my mid-year report. Check to see if you might have overlooked it but I wouldn't worry too much.</p>
<p>I just called (again) to Stanford's Office of Admissions - Phone: 650-723-2091.</p>
<p>(1) While I was waiting for someone to come on the line with me, a recording stated: "Admission Decisions will be Accessible online in the late afternoon (Pacfiic Time), on Friday March 31".</p>
<p>(2) Then, when the woman answered my call, I asked her is she knew the website URL for us to use to view the Decisions. She said that she did not know the URL. She said that an email will be sent out to explain the process. I asked her when the email would be sent out. She said that she did not know.</p>
<p>Stanford does not say anything about emailing or posting. Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth are going to use email/webpage to inform applicants tomorrow. I cannot find any clue from Stanford and Princeton.</p>
<p>Stanford posts online...you will be sent an email that says when and how to retrieve your decision...Princeton only sends snail mail..and they sent letters out tonight!</p>