<p>Hey everyone, </p>
<p>I know that the notification date for REA is December 15th, but anyone know what specific time and if it's through email?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Last year it was 3:00 Pacific time and it was an email.</p>
<p>The other thing is that it’s not definitely the 15th, last year it was the 13th… I wish they would just tell us a day.</p>
<p>Oh yeah that’s true. It says “Admission decisions are released by December 15”. So it could get released before.</p>
<p>I’m guessing that it’ll be Friday the 12th at 3pm pacific time. </p>
<p>Last year they released it the Friday before the 15th at 3pm. I’m guessing they’ll do the same this year. </p>
<p>If tradition and past history is to be followed…Stanford enjoys pounding Thor’s hammer with their REA decisions and their outrageous “numbers” immediately following their northeast rival’s…so it should be Dec. 12 at 3PM Pacific time…</p>
<p>Do the emails actually come at 3 pm PT or is that when they start being sent? </p>
<p>please chance me I chance back!</p>
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<p>I think we will be able to view our decisions at 3 PM.</p>
<p>When the email comes will it just be a letter or will there be a link to the letter or something like that? </p>
<p>@Ellenak96 I heard that we receive log-in information that we use to log onto Axess, where we can view our decision on December 12. But I’m not sure if that’s true.</p>
<p>Last year the decision was sent via email. You didn’t have to log into anything else to see the answer.</p>
<p>Oh mah god no! I have to do turn of the thing on my email that shows a preview of the email’s message now or I’ll see the decision before even opening the email :(</p>
<p>Someone on the class of 2019 applicant facebook page just said that they called and an admissions officer said that decisions are definitely coming out on the 15th instead of by the 15th, is that them trying to surprise us or are they really not coming out until that Monday?</p>
<p>@tankfrank13. The person on the facebook most likely talked to someone who works in the admissions “office” and definitely not an “officer” and neither are at liberty to disclose the actual release date to anyone…they are all told to use the Dec. 15th date as the “default date” nothing more or nothing less…</p>
<p>…now, you should be expecting an announcement on their website sometime in the very near future before the above “default date” by the admissions director Colleen Lim that they will be releasing the REA decisions and the early applicant statistics on a “different date” most likely Dec. 12…at 3PM Pacific Time. Historically and traditionally they like releasing the decisions on a Friday (the last day of the quarter for Stanford students) going into the weekend…</p>
<p>…having said that…if their “northeast” counterpart were to change their release date to a “later” date they will announce later as well…it’s called one-upmanship…</p>
<p>I very much doubt that calling the admissions office will allow anyone to find the right time that they released. There is a reason they say “by Dec 15th”. It is partially most likely a surprise element in there, as well as trying to compete with Harvard’s and possibly other Northeast school’s releases, as well as having a little bit of buffer time in case something goes wrong, they have a few days to send them all out before their official deadline. Since they don’t give an official release time and day, why would talking on the phone be an allowed method to give out that information?</p>
<p>It would shock me if they really were planning to send that many emails in the evening of Pacific time, especially as the west coast is behind many of the applicants’ time zones. </p>
<p>Last year we were told they release decisions after 3:00 Pacific time because most kids across the US are done with school for the day. It allows students to find out at home if they want and have time to process the decision before having to share the news, either good or bad, with their classmates. </p>
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<p>@gravitas2: The first reason you mention makes institutional sense to me. The second is juvenile nonsense, and I would hope that a school with Stanford’s level of self-regard no longer feels the need to make decisions based on what a bunch of old fogies back East do. </p>
<p>A third reason for Stanford lagging some other schools that you didn’t mention but also would make sense is simply that they have a significantly greater number of early applications to process than any of the Ivies and, thus, need the extra working days. In fact, that’s why it wouldn’t surprise me if they go the distance to the 15th. After all, Michigan releases even later than any of the Ivies OR Stanford, and I doubt you’d credit them for “one-upsmanship.” But they are dealing with over 23,000 early applications. </p>
<p>@SomeOldGuy. I understand where you are coming from and I agree Stanford needs no one back East to determine when they release their decisions and their numbers…but, just like a poker player who holds the royal flush…they just enjoy showing their hand at the most “appropriate time” 
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