<p>@Hatebeingsober</p>
<p>the email’s title is “Your Stanford Admissions Decision”</p>
<p>and its in letter format (not a link or a upload/download, just a straight up letter written into the email)…you will know within first several words</p>
<p>It contains the decision itself. Here’s a copy of my deferral:</p>
<p>December 14, 2012</p>
<p>Bulldog17
Email: [redacted]
Stanford ID: [redacted]</p>
<p>Dear Bulldog2017,</p>
<p>After careful consideration and a thorough review of your candidacy, we have deferred your application to our Regular Decision review period. Our philosophy is to defer only a small percentage of Restrictive Early Action applicants, and thus you are part of a highly select group of students whose applications will be reviewed again. </p>
<p>The reasons for deferring a Restrictive Early Action application vary, but in most cases we want to reassess your candidacy in the broader context of our entire applicant pool, or we want to see your first term senior year grades. Although we cannot predict the likelihood of gaining admission, in each of the past four years approximately fifteen percent of deferred candidates have been admitted. </p>
<p>Between now and the end of February, we invite you to submit online an Optional Update Form. Let us know about any new honors, awards or significant personal accomplishments. Do not submit additional letters of recommendation. When first term grades are available, ask your school to submit an updated transcript with the Common Application Midyear Report Form. Include your Stanford ID number, located at the top of this letter, in all correspondence with the admission office.</p>
<p>We appreciate the thoughtfulness and hard work you put into your application and acknowledge your strong interest in Stanford as a Restrictive Early Action applicant. You will receive a final decision at the end of March, 2013.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Richard H. Shaw
Dean of Admission and Financial Aid</p>
<p>“As you know, Stanford is an extremely competitive university…”
“It is with great regret…”
“Congratulations!..”</p>
<p>It is important to note that the heading is long enough that you will actually have to open the email to see the decision; it will likely NOT show up in the preview (I turned preview off just in case). Also, I believe it came through as an image and may take a second to load (aka most painful second of this process).</p>
<p>@Bulldog2017</p>
<p>What a heart-sinker! At least it gave you hope.</p>
<p>@jeffwalker1996</p>
<p>It actually just made me really angry. They deferred 575 applicants last year and I didn’t know if I was #1 on the list or #575… I cried for awhile and was much more bratty about it than I should have been.</p>
<p>I can also post my subsequent acceptance if you would like to see that so you’ll (hopefully) have good dreams tonight. Although I won’t post it if you don’t want to get your hopes up…</p>
<p>Go for it xD</p>
<p>go ahead bulldog</p>
<p>March 29, 2013</p>
<p>Bulldog2017
Address: [redacted]
Email: [redacted]</p>
<p>Stanford ID: [redacted]</p>
<p>Dear Bulldog2017,</p>
<p>Congratulations! The Admission Committee joins me in the most rewarding part of my job—offering you admission to Stanford University and inviting you to join our Class of 2017.</p>
<p>You have set yourself apart, and we are impressed and inspired by your passion, determination and accomplishments. We acknowledge and celebrate all you have worked for with the good news this letter brings.</p>
<p>At Stanford you join a diverse, joyful and collaborative campus community with a shared determination to change the world. Indeed, Leland and Jane Stanford founded the University “to promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization.” That influence begins with an academic community committed to mastering the known and developing an intuitive capacity to imagine the unknown. You are part of something larger than yourself at Stanford, and your unique perspective will contribute to this extraordinary community.</p>
<p>Most importantly, Stanford is a place to grow and begin to define your place in the world.</p>
<p>The next step is to visit admit.stanford.edu. Connect with other admitted students and begin to explore Stanford’s opportunities. Next week you will receive a packet of information that includes an invitation to attend Admit Weekend 2013, Thursday–Saturday, April 25–27, and the Admit Weekend Handbook, an excellent guide to this program.</p>
<p>As you continue through the final term of your senior year, do not initiate changes to your course schedule without contacting us first. In addition, if you submitted predicted scores for exams such as the International Baccalaureate, we require the actual scores once you receive your results. Your admission is contingent upon strong academic performance in the program of study you presented in your application including your final IB results.</p>
<p>You may respond to our admission offer at any time on or before May 1, 2013. Instructions for confirming your enrollment will be enclosed in your mailed packet.</p>
<p>We are thrilled to offer you admission and hope that you will join us. Welcome to the Stanford family.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Richard H. Shaw
Dean of Admission and Financial Aid</p>
<p>did u get 1 or 2 emails from them on notification day?</p>
<p>Just one! 10char</p>
<p>Such a lightening feeling that would be. Congratulations! I don’t think it matters how long it’s been since you received that letter. You deserve a good job the rest of your life :)</p>
<p>Supposedly tomorrow (friday the 13th) after 3 pm pacific time. good luck everyone!!</p>
<p>I would love to hear how everyone did 
I will post my results either way haha</p>
<p>ummm anyone else feel the urge to throw up right now? I’m highly doubtful I’ll get in but reading these is renewing my sense of hope and that’s not a good thing at this point haha.</p>
<p>@academyaint</p>
<p>Please read post #1138. Your life will work out no matter what that email says tomorrow.</p>
<p>I know that everything will work out no matter what, and I’m not worried about the result, but I still get this horrifying and painful jolt in my stomach when I think about it</p>
<p>@corndwag Your post actually made me feel really good about myself and made me laugh. Thank you!</p>
<p>Has anyone else gotten a new zit or two this week from the stress?
I did.</p>
<p>And it makes me sad.</p>
<p>Hahaha! Just realize that Stanford is 1 of thousands of schools in America. Your fate does not depend on this decision. You could very well go to a community college down the street and have just as good a time, if not even better, as you would if you went to Stanford. </p>
<p>It is a very exciting time in our lives to be able to go to college. I am thankful enough that I can apply to these schools and feel hopeful for admission. There are people who would do anything to get into Stanford, but know that there is no way way they can get in. </p>
<p>Hopefully, just knowing that you are a competitive teenager and that you have something to offer to these types of university is enough to make you happy and worthy. If it’s not Stanford, it will be another incredible college!!</p>