Phone Calls for All Accepted Deferrees?

[shinseki12]

<p>Eh I don't think any of the posts here were negative towards Stanford except for maybe jc's first post here, but that's about it. </p>

<p>However, I'm not too sure about your 'Miracle' reasoning, farmmom. My numbers are not the best, but they are decent-same for my ec's. I believe myself to be the 'right' type of student, having pretty much grown up on campus and even researching for a while at the med school. I have used Stanford's resources, including its libraries, become friends with students there as well-all of which I have mentioned in my deferred update form. Maybe they just think I've taken my share of the 'Stanford experience' and want to kick me out to explore the world. Who knows? I'm living with it and I'm not bitter about it. Disappointed, yes; but not bitter.</p>

[farmmom]

<p>Shinseki, I have to agree that it is hard to imagine what stanford was thinking if it didn't consider you the "right" candidate. Maybe one just has to look at it as a statistical thing. If you figure there were roughly 20,000 applicants of which they accepted around 2,500, that means they had to reject 17,500. Even if you throw out the weakest 7,500 as applicants, that still leaves 10,000 highly qualified students that they have to decline. How does anyone make that kind of decision. But my guess is that the adcoms still sweated over those decisions. Their choices were probably not as arbitrary and capricious as they seem to us. Hope you were accepted by one of your other top choices. Good luck in your future!</p>