<p>@corndwag I feel empowered. Thank you for that post-- by far the most helpful thing anyone has said to me about my likely rejection. That’s awesome…and the truth.</p>
<p>[Disney's</a> Frozen “Let It Go” Sequence Performed by Idina Menzel - YouTube](<a href=“Disney's Frozen "Let It Go" Sequence Performed by Idina Menzel - YouTube”>Disney's Frozen "Let It Go" Sequence Performed by Idina Menzel - YouTube)</p>
<p>This video helps me cope with this stress.</p>
<p>“I am the one with the winds and sky”</p>
<p>THIS IS 2017. NOT 2018. DON’T FREAK OUT; YOUR DECISIONS HAVEN’T COME OUT YET. Here’s what I posted in the 2017 thread when results came out @jeffwalker1996 (I now use a different account). I also ended up being the State AP scholar, but I didn’t find out about that until August. Also, I was named the “Volunteer of the Year” (in January) by my church for the service I had done and that went on my update form along with the fact I already had offers from Yale and Harvard.</p>
<p>I don’t feel like going through and doing the whole formatting thing (sorry, it’s finals week and I’ve been procrastinating enough)</p>
<p>DEFERRED</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2390 (800CR, 800M, 790W)
ACT: 35
SAT II (if submitted): 800 Chemistry, 800 Math 2, 710 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/250
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (5), Calc BC (5), Chemistry (5), English Lang (5), Macro (5), Micro (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Physics B, AP English Lit, AP Spanish, AP US Gov, AP Enviro Sci (Ind. St.), AP Psych (Ind. St.), Vector Calculus (comm. College)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National AP Scholar, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, National Merit Commended, National Honor Society, some regional science fair awards
[ b]Subjective:**
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): FIRST Robotics (Mechanical lead), Varsity Tennis (Captain), Church outreach (Coordinator), Job at research lab, ISEF, FLL (coach), outdoor school (counselor)
Job/Work Experience: job at research lab for state university
Volunteer/Community service: NHS, Church volunteer stuff, therapeutic horse center volunteer
Essays: pretty good, I thought. 19238473289 people read them and most liked them.
Teacher Recommendation: 10/10 and 8/10… didn’t read either
Counselor Rec: 9.5/10… didn’t read
Additional Rec: 10/10 from boss at lab
Interview: pretty good, he talked more than I did (seriously)
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering
State (if domestic applicant): OR
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public (1000ish students) (1 other kid, legacy and #2 in the class, applied REA, rejected)
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 120k (ish)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): research?
Reflection
Strengths: SAT
Weaknesses: I kind of did everything and, although I did it all very well, I have heard that filling up the extra-curricular list can make you look uncommitted…
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: my mom said that they may want to see my senior year grades since I’m doing to much/taking so many classes. I’m not sure if I agree with this, but it’s a thought
General Comments: a little bit mad, but I’m glad it’s not a rejection… I don’t know if I can wait until March! but the email said that ~15% of deferred are accepted.</p>
<p>@cornwad</p>
<p>i read ur post while listening to “Let Her Go” passenger hahahah perfect timing!
good post and makes a ton of sense…its ONE SCHOOL, ITS ONE STAGE of OUR LIFE… i dont know about yall, but im tryin to go to med school and once u get past tht stage, UG name and degree barely matters. it all matters on ur medical education and experience… if i get into stanford, GREAT AWESOME YAY, if i dont, ok its all good ill apply stanford med school when i get to tht stage (which is awesome btw lolol 
)</p>
<p>@Bulldog2017
Truly incredible that Stanford did not accept you. Your scores are phenomenal on both the SAT and ACT, and your class rank is impeccable. I know scores are only part of the package, but you even have a good amount of volunteering and extracurriculars. It’s no wonder the other top tier universities wanted you.</p>
<p>For me, I have
SAT 800M 620CR 720W
GPA 4.0
Class Rank from a Competitive School: 55/560 8.9%
The thing is that I have a whole page of volunteer/leadership/extracurriculars list, and so I am hopeful for this to weight a large amount in my application. Eagle Scout, former troop leader. I also traveled to 22 countries in 4 years during my family’s military assignment overseas, so I am a diversified person. Would you agree that this is something they look for?</p>
<p>Back to the topic of the thread, it is true that many of us will get rejected (or deferred), but unlike many others who simply sulk over their rejection emails, we should be the group of people who power on to other schools. Stanford is a great school, but there are several others that are just as good! Find a way to win :)</p>
<p>Good luck to all, and to all a good night!</p>
<p>@jeffwalker1996</p>
<p>I’m not going to speculate as to what Stanford is looking for or puts weight on when considering an application. All I can do is wish you luck. If we have learned anything from my story it’s that the Stanford Admissions Office is very weird; anything can happen tomorrow. Just know that you will be happy next year :D</p>
<p>@Bulldog2017</p>
<p>While your profile is certainly outstanding, you must have written some KILLER essays to get likely letters from all those giant-name schools. Just browsing through your information and seeing the deferral from Stanford, I was not all that surprised. This seems to contradict my notions of Ivy likely letter recipients. Maybe you really brought your A-game in the Harvard/Yale supplements?</p>
<p>Also, @jeffwalker1996, 4.0 GPA and 55th in class looks very weird to me. There is only one person in my grade with a 4.0, and that’s with anything A- and above counting for the full 4 points. And I wouldn’t even call my high school “competitive.”</p>
<p>@Jeffwalker</p>
<p>i agree with orbdas… there is only one person with 4.0 in my grade as well as he is number 1… and my high school is DEF not one of the most competitive in the state (maybe yea in the county)</p>
<p>@orbdas</p>
<p>I actually really just recycled my Stanford essays on my Harvard and Yale supplements. I literally copy and pasted my intellectual vitality essay into the optional Harvard essay space and tweaked it a little to make it into my Yale engineering essay. The only new essay I wrote was my 500 character “Why Yale?” essay…</p>
<p>@orbdas</p>
<p>Scratch that. I also wrote a new essay for the Yale’s “What do we not know about you?” essay.</p>
<p>I also only started the rest of my applications on the day they were due (Yale on the 31st, Harvard and everything else on the 1st)</p>
<p>@orbdas</p>
<p>Yes it is weird. Like I mentioned, my school is extremely competitive (Millard North Nebraska). I actually have a 4.12 weighted, and I am still among the lower 10%. It is appalling, but the truth.</p>
<p>@Bulldog2017 and anyone in general, I’m an overly optimistic person and I have so much hope about tomorrow. Advice on becoming negative please?</p>
<p>@jeffwalker1996</p>
<p>Are many of your classmates applying REA?</p>
<p>@savethetrees</p>
<p>I think it’s good to have a positive attitude, just as long as you promise yourself to carry that through to the RD rounds should you receive a deferral or rejection.</p>
<p>Last year decisions were released on the same day that the Newtown shooting happened. I was home “sick” (or more appropriately “worried” or “nervous”) that day, and I remember watching the news and realizing that, what I was experiencing as one of the worst days of my life (and this was before decisions came out), was actually pretty damn good.</p>
<p>@savethetrees</p>
<p>if u truly wanna think negative think this: stanford attracts smong top 6000 students in the country to apply early action restrictive… Not only does the pool of these 6000 have 25-75 percentiles at top 5% and above class rank and 33-35 ACT/ 2200-2350 SAT, they are also among the most accomplished students in teh country… out of the 750 (my guess i 764) acceptances, roughly 100-150 will be for athletes recruited and add another 50 for strong legacy/donors…tht means roughly 550 spots for the rest of the 6000 to compete for…thts roughly 8-10% by itself…when u add the fact tht some people have national and international level academics and clubs and awards u might as well say tht crapshoot is a good definition for stanford early…</p>
<p>unless obviously, u are one of htose athletes, strong legacy.donor and or internation award winning hooks</p>
<p>@bulldog2017
I only know one of my classmates that is applying. But surely there are at least a few more in my class of 560.</p>
<p>Do they email out acceptances after rejections/deferrals? Or do they email by region?</p>
<p>Also, does the email contain the decision or a link to the decision?</p>
<p>@wanttogetinbadly</p>
<p>I think we figured out last year that they go out in waves roughly alphabetically. Maybe it was geographically, but definitely not by outcome (rejections then deferrals then acceptances)</p>