<p>Also @orbdas, I really enjoyed and appreciated the comments you left on the results thread. I hope you don’t mind but I copied them into the form for our letter to future applicants. Congrats on your acceptance. :)</p>
<p>Brogrammer17…you are a very gracious applicant…I am sorry for your results…I wish you and all the others best of luck!</p>
<p>@Brogrammer my comment wasn’t directed at you, as a matter of fact I’m really impressed by the attitude you have, good luck with all of your other schools i’m sure you’ll end up somewhere amazing.</p>
<p>@Sophus Thank you. I wish I could like your post a thousand times.</p>
<p>Yes, maybe I’ve never helped starving children in Africa or won a national science award or even started a club at my school, but that doesn’t mean I “don’t deserve” to go to Stanford. I am convinced that my essays are what got me accepted - I think that for as much effort as I’m sure everyone puts into them, it’s easy to come off as bragging or flippant or too overly serious and the adcom sees that. I’m proud of my essays because each one showed a different side of me. I’m happy because I know that Stanford admitted me for ME, and not just for my accomplishments. I sincerely empathize with everyone that was rejected, because I thought I would be in your position today too. But please, please don’t react to your admissions decision by lashing out at those of us who received a happy email yesterday.</p>
<p>Is it safe to assume that the estimated financial aid grant will remain about the same by the time it is confirmed by the Boar of Trustees?</p>
<p>Also, the “Estimated Scholarship” section is completely a grant and has nothing to pay back right?</p>
<p>^^yes and yes…you are correct…and actually, Stanford does not call it a grant…but Stanford Fund Scholarship.</p>
<p>@gravitas2 thanks and ah of course a ‘Fund Scholarship’ lol</p>
<p>Just wondering how many other people haven’t gotten emails yet? Sounds like just about everyone already did…I guess I’m fine with calling on Monday, but just wanted to see if it was a mass problem for people of a certain region, maybe, or just me!</p>
<p>I still didn’t get e-mail. I’m from NY.
alwaysadilemma said he/she didn’t get e-mail few hours ago.</p>
<p>Has anybody received their financial aid letter yet? On Axess it says “there is no financial aid information found” for me.</p>
<p>I have, RedSn0w. Try going to Axess -> Student -> Finances -> View Financial Aid, then click on “here” to view your award letter.</p>
<p>@batista @jeffwalker1996 @haleyd14. I don’t think batista attends Exeter. I go to Exeter and I looked at all the things “he” listed for ECs and they don’t match with the people I know applied. Some of the classes he listed aren’t even offered winter term. I pm’ed him to try and confirm and he ignored it. Trolls like him give the academy a bad name. Stop apologizing to him. He DOESN’T go to the academy.</p>
<p>I got deferred so I am a bit sad, but I’m not going to come here and start saying I don;t understand how anyone got in. The admissions officers are smart men and women. They make holistic decisions and we need to trust that they know what they are doing.</p>
<p>@orbdas</p>
<p>Thanks for the help, but I’m still unfortunately getting the message “no award letters to view.” I have no clue why…</p>
<p>Have you filed all the required paperwork?</p>
<p>I’m sorry, what required paperwork? I filed the CSS Profile before the deadline but I believe that was it.</p>
<p>can someone let me know what dates admit weekend is?</p>
<p>Letter from post 1405 - April 24-26.</p>
<p>Red sn0w - no FAFSA?</p>
<p>Shoot no, I have not filled that out yet. I read that the REA deadline for it is in March so I thought no one had done it. </p>
<p>Actually, now that I look at the Financial Aid website again, it’s saying that it’s “Available starting January 1, 2014,” meaning?.. In anycase thank you for your help!</p>
<p>You got it starmound!</p>
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This was uncalled for and is not accurate. Assuming your stats were real (as mentioned in posts above, there is some question about this), you were obviously academically qualified and had impressive awards. Your rejection likely related to character qualities. Note that in the video at [Stanford–What</a> factors affect decision beyond academic measures - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UYhTylqC9o]Stanford--What”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UYhTylqC9o) , a Stanford rep mentions that they are looking to fill their class with genuinely nice people multiple times within the video.</p>