<p>Spent My Life Trying To Get In </p>
<p>Not Black</p>
<p>Flawless Stats </p>
<p>Amazing Ec S</p>
<p>Local Without Legacy</p>
<p>Not From The Middle Of No Where</p>
<p>Worked Hard To Go To A Good High School </p>
<p>So Many Honors Classes</p>
<p>How Useless</p>
<p>You'll do great whenever you go! Don't worry about it.</p>
<p>what the heck you got a likely letter...I think you're lying cuz why would they send you a likely letter and then reject you?</p>
<p>anyway, don't sweat it...i felt the same way when i got my rejection at a much less prestigious school than stanford. but then i was accepted at many other places...dont worry</p>
<p>pagEL60...it's easy to post a trite and flippant sounding platitude when you've been blessed with an abundance of (elite admission offer) riches. It's hard to show empathy when you really don't understand what some outstanding young adults are going through right now.</p>
<p>trackstar23, my son was SCEA deferred and now waitlisted. He too has phenomenal stats. He's already made the decision to attend one of his safeties (with a full tuition scholarship and a higher ranking than Stanford in the branch of engineering that he intends to pursue). Based on what you've posted, you have a great future ahead of you.</p>
<p>As a parent I registered on CC last fall so that I could gain an insight as to what my son and others were feeling and experiencing. While most CCers offer cogent and respectful thoughts, the site is rife with narcissism, paranoia, and other dysfunctions. I know this smacks of sour grapes. Sure, it would have been great to have Stanford as another college choice, but hey, life goes on.</p>
<p>trackstar, take the weekend to "grieve" then go forward with your alternative plans. Don't let an admission or rejection define you as a person. I'm certain you'll do very well in your pursuits.</p>
<p>jagman300, thank you for your kind words. I will be attending a school of about equal quality and recognition and go back to Palo Alto for the summers, but I am still very sad. Maybe your son and I will end up at Stanford for Grad School.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, but I'm sure you'll be successful wherever you go!</p>
<p>jagman300, I fell disrespected by your labeling of some CCers as narcissists, some people have a lot of self-confidence, and this week's decisions reinforced that confidence for many of us :)</p>
<p>Post #5: "Maybe your son and I will end up at Stanford for Grad School."</p>
<p>Good luck! But you need work out the undergraduate program first.</p>
<p>pdef, you said that you "fell disrespected." Just how far did you fall? I said that most posts were cogent and respectful. I must have struck a nerve, or as the late/great Curly Howard once said "I resemble that remark."</p>
<p>coolweather, below is a copy and paste excerpt of the /LA Times/ article mentioned in another thread:</p>
<p>"Education is what a student makes of it. Of course, certain schools have resources that others don't, but they all offer opportunities to learn and to grow.</p>
<p>I am reminded of a teenager graduating high school in Sunnyvale, Calif., in 1975, who applied to only Stanford and one other school. He was understandably disappointed when denied admission here, but he later excelled as an undergraduate at the distinguished university across San Francisco Bay, UC Berkeley. He went on to earn a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and to become a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins. In 2003, he joined the Stanford University School of Medicine and last year was the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.</p>
<p>Andrew Fire is not atypical when it comes to Stanford applicants. Nor for that matter is John Etchemendy, the Stanford provost and philosophy professor who also was denied admission as an undergraduate. Nor are any of the thousands of others who aren't accepted into Stanford and go on to have fulfilling lives."</p>
<p>Guys, I'll say it again, don't let an acceptance or rejection define who you are. And by the way, thanks for reinforcing the points made in my original post.</p>
<p>Stop complaining you baby,</p>
<p>and stop trying to imply that the black students they accept don't deserve it or are academically deficient.</p>
<p>I go to Stanford right now, and i can understand why the admissions office doesnt't accept losers like you who try and blame their problems on minorities or people different from themselves.</p>
<p>If u think that minorities don't deserve to be at Stanford, then i'm very happy that Stanford rejected you because i wouldn't want such a person here.</p>
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I applied to stanford university in palo alto in december and i got a letter few days ago that said that they approve my admission</p>
<p>is it a joke because i thought i had no shot of gettn in i decided to apply the weak before the deadline and wrote my essays in under 2 hours</p>
<p>did anybody else get a letter? my stats aint that good gpa 3.3 and sat 19 something i only do track and field since senior year and was on school gov when i was a freshmen but i think it helped that i'm 1/8 black because i put i was african american and ive also gotten like 20 grand in outside scholarships for doing nothing its really funny because my family is so much richer than the white boys i know </p>
<p>is anyone else gotten in, or was stanford just joking with me?
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<p>From the OP, "Spent My Life Trying To Get In"!</p>
<p>As I guessed, the OP is a moron.</p>
<p>You can always sense an idiot because they blame their rejections on minorities, and not themselves.</p>
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Stop complaining you baby,</p>
<p>and stop trying to imply that the black students they accept don't deserve it or are academically deficient.</p>
<p>I go to Stanford right now, and i can understand why the admissions office doesnt't accept losers like you who try and blame their problems on minorities or people different from themselves.</p>
<p>If u think that minorities don't deserve to be at Stanford, then i'm very happy that Stanford rejected you because i wouldn't want such a person here.
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<p>Please, don't rub salt in other people's wounds. I agree with you that his comment about not being a URM was unwarranted, but you shouldn't rip people apart for a little lack of maturity.</p>
<p>To the OP, I'm sure you'll do great wherever you go. I'm in a similar situation, I understand you pain.</p>
<p>jagman300:</p>
<p>Everyone knows that rejection from an elite college does not mean the applicant will not have a wonderful education at another college and this college could be a better one. And everyone sympathizes with people who get rejected. I personally don't like the college application process either. But people on this thread don't like the OP because he is too arrogant.</p>
<p>trackstar23
do you go to paly or gunn?</p>
<p>I feel you trackstar. I feel you so hard :(</p>
<p>I got deferred SCEA, and I wrote a book (well, a page, single-spaced) for the Update form, published a freakin article in the newspaper, started the first varsity boys tennis team ever at my high school, raised $3000 for the tennis team, went to sectionals with my USTA Tennis Team, played #1 Doubles, placed 2nd, qualified for Nationals, got involved in the Community Relations board of the Associated Student and in two ministries, one that shelters battered women, and another that appeals to Spanish-speaking people; I got straight A's first semester, am currently earning straight A's now, and am also earning an A in a Chemistry class at a community college. All this since I sent my application and got deferred. Guess what? I got REJECTED!!!!!! I guess Stanford DOES courtesy deferrals; otherwise, they would not have deferred me in the first place. I guess I'm just the average white boy who isn't good enough for Stanford.</p>
<p>i feel for u man</p>
<p>Stanford has some weird admissions policies... it's pretty much their loss CATennisPlayer.</p>
<p>How to get into a good college:</p>
<p>For all the times you stayed up late to get it right; practiced, rehearsed, and gave it your all; studied something because you loved it, not because it would be on the test; took a risk instead of following the easy path; volunteered your time, talent, and energy; we applaud you.
-Stanford Acceptance Package for class of 2011</p>
<p>Just do those things and there shouldn't be any reason why they wouldn't want you.</p>