<p>Well, about 5% got accepted last year and I’m sure about 20% of all those who applied had straight A’s. I don’t know how much of a setback it is, but I hope I can recover from it.</p>
<p>@wearingred
Well, sports admissions are an entirely different beast. Sharing other ECs might not bode as well though.</p>
<p>@sillyup20
It’s not a setback at all, actually. The only thing that matters is that you take the most rigorous courseload possible at your school, and you get a majority of As. I mean, if you have a B in like Ceramics or PE that might imply that you’re not the type of student who actually attends classes. But if you worked your butt off in AP Chemistry and you could only pull a B, they’re not going to insta-reject you.</p>
<p>You definitely have a ton of room to recover with your essays, teacher recs, ECs, maybe counselor school report.</p>
<p>I think I heard this on a race car commericial on ESPN a few days ago. However, it is very appropriate to this string.</p>
<p>“Perfection only gives you a chance.”</p>
<p>Once again, I can garantee that thousands of applicants to the HYPS will be rejected with perfect or near perfect SAT/ACT’s, essays and extracurriculars. In other words, this is somewhat of a crap shoot. Don’t focus solely on a single school. Select a handful of schools that you feel good about and would be happy attending. Then, if you don’t win the lottery, you will not be devastated. You will still go on to accomplish wonderful things. If you still end up winning the lottery, then be thankful for the opportunity and don’t waste it.</p>
<p>@jadbow. That really is a great quote. I think many people scratch their head and ask “how did top person X not get into Top school Y” and at same time wonder how less than top person A got into school y.</p>
<p>The other line I have heard is that it is not a deterministic process. You can have wonderful everything but that means you are competitive, not a shoe in.</p>
<p>So if I have a sophomore year teacher writing one of my letters of recs, based mostly on the fact that he’s my coach for Academic Decathlon, would this be considered an appropriate teacher rec?</p>
<p>Hey guys! I’ve asked this question in a thread of it’s own, but I thought I’d ask here as well. My dad is currently a faculty member at Stanford, I’ve heard this is an advantage, but I’m not entirely sure how much. Does anyone know how much of a hook this could be?</p>
<p>I think a faculty member at Stanford would be definitely somewhat of a hook (although I don’t know the weight of it), as they ask for it on the app and they’ll know your family a little bit</p>
<p>^^if you have competitive scores, GPA, outstanding ECs, great essays, and recommendations…your parent faculty HOOK trumps most other hooks/applicants…but, remember, you have to have the competitive credentials to get in first! Good luck!</p>
<p>I have read that Stanford put a pretty high weight on faculty family for admission. It will definitely increase the chance.</p>
<p>soo umm does anyone now about how many of the REAs are recruited athletes?</p>
<p>Also will it hurt my chances that there are already 6 people accepted to Stanford from my school (for sports)? :(</p>
<p>^^No one really knows the exact numbers…but I would think it is somewhere in the 200s each year…</p>
<p>…I have a feeling that you attend one of the feeder schools in the bay-area possibly Gunn or Menlo or Paly or Harker…to have that many athletes get accepted already…</p>
<p>…by the way…Boston Latin (public school) which is a feeder sends about 25-30 students to Harvard each year… </p>
<p>…don’t worry, if you are not an athlete, you will be competing with the “talented” non-athlete students…and if you have the “goods” that Stanford is looking for…you will have as good a chance of being accepted as anyone else…good luck!</p>
<p>based on last 5 years of numbers and trends and such, we can expect about a 12% early action acceptance rate (740 out of ~6200) and about a consideration rate of 21-22% (people that get either deffered or accepted). All this is purely done with simple trending and predictions. It just seemed that last year the drop in acceptances was done because of a higher that expected yield rate the year before and it will probably stabilize this year to bring it from 725 to roughly 740ish but not quite back to the 750s like years past. total applicants will probs rise a 1000 or so just based on trending last several years (the dip in 2011 cycle was due to harvard reinstating their early action so im guessing stanford lost a grand or so there)</p>
<p>But yea, if u take out 200 athletes out of the numbers for the SCEA pool, u see a mere 8 percent acceptance rate (still better than the RD numbers)… im guessing the discussion of scea early action being advantegeous can end cause it seems as if there is a slight one if at all…</p>
<p>Aaand… I have applied with my arts supplement! Now, the waiting begins…</p>
<p>When do the decisions come out?</p>
<p>how likely is it to get an interview if you live near a major city (Chicago)</p>
<p>Chicago has ALOT of applicants, but i believe it is one of hte cities that stanford interviews so u probs have a good chance?</p>
<p>Also, i wonder if stanford nov 1 deadline will get extended to like the 8th. my son has already told me tht his JHU and a few others have extended their early deadlines.</p>
<p>I believe that was due to issues with the Common Application.</p>
<p>Maverick10, they come out on December 15th 3 pm CA time.</p>
<p>Thanks savethetrees, are you applying?</p>