<p>I hope i wont be posting with a green heading saying “REJECTED”…</p>
<p>i loled at the ones that did that last year.</p>
<p>Haha good point.</p>
<p>anybody from washington here? no, not the capital, the state lol</p>
<p>25 days! so freakin nervous!</p>
<p>I have a countdown in my assignment notebook. Except it doesn’t really matter because I won’t tell anyone if I get in or not. No one at my school would understand because they think I’m going to get in no matter what, so if I did, they wouldn’t care. And if I didn’t, then they’d think I’m a fail.</p>
<p>22 minutes until 24 days left. :)</p>
<p>^^^ same deal here</p>
<p>who else is glad that everything is out of your hands, and that unless you get yourself a DUI (DWI elsewhere?) you cant do anything to either help or hurt your chances?</p>
<p>Hah, I just reread my essays. There’s no way I’d get in. I should better stop dreaming at once…</p>
<p>what am I still doing on this board? :(</p>
<p>Prussia–I am so beyond jealous of that exam policy. And naviance is seriously cool, when you click a school, it shows you the averages of everyone from your school who got accepted. And there’s all these scattergram features that let you see where you stand as opposed to the previous acceptees. :)</p>
<p>haha teahouse I felt the same way when I read mine again. I don’t plan on reading my apps again after I am done and submitted.</p>
<p>I reread my essays and actually got really excited… Except my main common-app essay. It just makes me groan and hold my head. I loved my supplement essays, but… Uggh.
I also don’t really know if the rest of my stats are up to par, so… 
Aughhrhg I don’t know!! All I can do is wait.</p>
<p>Haha yeah its a cool exam policy. I wish they had implemented it back in my freshman year on instead of just now!</p>
<p>@teahouse</p>
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<p>thats not suprising…</p>
<p>jk jk jk 
I have yet to re-read, although if i did, I would probably hate my essays. Which might actually be a good thing because whenever i dont like somthing I’ve written, everyone always says its awsome, and vice versa.</p>
<p>mabye that is simply due to my attitude towards the paper when i tell them to read it, but the “i like the paper but nobody else does, i dislike the paper but everyone else loves it” paradox is also reflected in the grades i get on essays…</p>
<p>Any of the other Californians on here going to the Big Game? I was thinking about going but I’m really busy this weekend. Hopefully next year! :)</p>
<p>I feel the same as Prussia about my essays: I still love the supplements, but the main one is completely incoherent. I honestly think that it could be the final factor that ensures my rejection… Bleh.</p>
<p>re-read my essays</p>
<p>all but the why Stanford were alright. the why Stanford was pretty bad…
its like if a dog had explosive diarrhea on paper and then a dung beetle came and then rolled little pathways that vaguely resembled a kindergartener’s first crayon scribbling then you would have my Why Stanford essay.</p>
<p>my apologies for the wierd/incredibly gross image…</p>
<p>haha
that gave a nice image
now if your essay could paint that kind of picture…i think they would have a hard time rejecting you.</p>
<p>or they would just reject the contents of their stomach :P</p>
<p>haha, kind of random thought/segway: I wonder what they would do if someone submitted an arts supplement w/kindergarten scribbling on it… like would they applaud the absurdity of it?</p>
<p>like stick figures with arrows of mommy and daddy pointing to them and then a house in the background and grass with a giant flower sticking out of it, and a sun in the upper right hand corner and a cloud with a happy face on it…</p>
<p>New topic if you were an admissions officer and someone submitted that what would you do? :P</p>
<p>I would see if I could draw a better one. </p>
<p>I think it kind of depends on the personality of the admissions officer, but you could get lucky. . .</p>
<p>Just like you have to hope they’re not in a bad mood when they read your app i.e. they just spilled hot coffee on themselves haha</p>
<p>Well, actually, I’m pretty sure art submissions go straight to the art department for review, not the adcoms… So I don’t think it would go over well haha.
But, if, as an adcom, I did see it?.. I… I don’t know. I would be confused.</p>
<p>Also, random trivia I found out the other day: it’s actually “segue,” not “segway.” Segway is the scooter; segue is the “transitioning to a different topic.”</p>
<p>Speaking of which, did any of you guys send in an art supplement?
I didn’t, even though probably my most impressive “EC” was basically art… But, it was all job-based stuff. I’m pretty much self-taught through online art communities and resources, so I didn’t have a teacher to write a rec or any awards. Just… jobs and contracts doing art for pay.</p>
<p>Hey guys,
So i applied EA with an arts supp. cuz ive been playing piano since i was four. I have a 31 act and around a 3.85 unweighted gpa. I have AP. Bio, AP Physics C, Marching band, Latin, College Stats and Calc. for my senoir year. Im president of NHS, treasurer of ski club, went to states for cross country, boys team swim capton, bunch of community service and other stuff ect. Im still working at a golf course for three years now. I wrote my essays about YouTube, and how i uploaded videos teaching piano and how i connected to people all over the world… So yeah, i mean my 31 isn’t that great but like i really want to get in, its just so many don’t. So let me know what you think. Thanks!</p>
<p>Honestly lkief, no one knows how you’ll fare. The Stanford admissions decisions aren’t predictable, and every year, people are shocked and surprised- for better and worse.
It’s a very holistic process, and without seeing the exact wording and style of every section you submitted, along with your transcript and recommendations, it’s a complete shot in the dark to guess. Even if we did see those, we likely couldn’t well predict the decision of an adcom trying to fill so few spots in the most diverse and well-rounded way possible.
In other words, who knows? Perfect scorers get rejected in face of lower scorers accepted, while many of those get rejected as well. There’s no way of knowing.
Keep your chin up, but don’t hold your hopes too high. Be ready for whichever decision may come your way, and remember not to neglect the quality of your “safer” schools’ apps in the meantime. That’s all any of us can do.</p>