<p>Problem is, they don’t send rejection letters They only send you physical mail if you’re accepted. I think it’s better to just read the email when it comes, because I actually think waiting and waiting only for it to slowly sink in that nothing’s coming would be much worse. </p>
<p>I’ve not completely solidified my plans for the decisions thread, so I’m open to suggestion and discussion.
If I’m accepted, I’ll gladly tally the percentage data for things like gender, score range, states, etc, myself, but if I’m rejected, I don’t know if I’ll have the heart. Maybe I’d do it anyway.
I am a fan of including essay topics and length, though. Also the DATE you submitted–I’ve never seen it included before, but I’m curious as to whether how early/late you submit has any bearing. Harvard says they read their apps in order, and that they generally like the earlier ones better (after a few thousand, it’s hard for them to hold your interest unless there’s something really spectacular, they say.) I’m curious if Stanford has any similarity in their process.
I’m not sure how I feel about separating the decisions and discussion, really. I tend to feel that that introduces a disconnect that just sort of prevents most real discussion from happening, as most don’t like going into a separate thread to comment on another. I think it depends on what’s being considered “discussion,” though; just little things like “congrats Mary Sue!!!” and “oh no, I’m sorry John Doe :****(” are fine in the decisions thread itself, I think, but maybe a longer, more analytical discussion would be better in another.
But, yeah, I understand why one would want a more tidy thread for future applicants to look through… Like I said, I’m open to anyone’s thoughts.
Democracy go go go!</p>
<p>@ Nitro Hawk, I totally agree. It’s almost better to think of rejection because there’s nowhere to go but up when the decisions come out. But then I think if I think of rejection, somehow the Stanford admissions committee is going to know and reject me. :]</p>
<p>@Prussia, I do think that discussion and decisions should be separate. It’s annoying to have to go through pages of discussion to see 2 decisions. I think people should be able to say “Congratulations,” but anything more in depth/analytical than that should be saved for a different thread. It kind of decreases the value of the “Official Decision Thread” if it just turns into another discussion thread.</p>
<p>@Loopy, I hate it when people tell me that I’ll get it. Especially since no one else from my school is applying, so when they tell me I’ll get in, I’m like “Wow, you really don’t understand how hard it is to get in,” and it just frustrates me that no matter how many times I establish how hard it is to get in, everyone thinks I’m better than all the other applicants to Stanford, which isn’t true for any Stanford applicant.</p>
<p>@squeakyclean10 - I wrote about their beautiful campus (seriously) and about all my ECs I could be doing there. Mostly cause my ECs are pretty pathetic compared to all of you so I wanted to emphasize it and make it seem like it was more than what it was.</p>
<p>Crap, I just realized how stupid my essay is. LOL. Oh well, whats done is done.</p>
<p>I said that I wanted to go to Stanford because of their interdisciplinary strength, which would allow me to keep my focus fairly wide. It probably wasn’t the most strategic move, but it was the truth, so I figured it would count for something.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know about the no-rejection-mail thing. So I was thinking it might be better to just wait to see if an envelope comes, and then if it doesn’t, I’d know about the rejection. Which seems slightly easier than a slap in the face, flat-out REJECT email. But I dunno, I think coming home and not seeing the envelope will make it more real to me. I’m gonna go vacillate more now. :P</p>
<p>@timetraveler: Getting the news through the lack of the letter would be a bit more painful to me. Every day you get your hopes up just a bit that there will be an envelope for you in the mail. What if it got lost? What if they haven’t sent it yet? At that point I just wanna know from the email.</p>
<p>Alright, you guys convinced me. I won’t wait for the snail mail (or most likely, lack thereof), and will simply open the email and, and…I don’t know. I have NO idea in heck what my reaction will be. Which is kinda making me nervous (I guess I should remove all breakable objects around the computer, hee hee).</p>
<p>i’d be super depressed for a day to a week. . .then realize i have to finish other college apps. that could help me take my mind off the rejection.</p>
<p>i don’t think so; one of my friends got rejected scea stanford, got accepted into harvard and yale, with a pretty good amount of financial aid from harvard [currently attending of course. . .]</p>
<p>I know a lot of people get rejected from Stanford and then get accepted to HYPMetc, but I can’t help but worry it will instill a fair bit of self-doubt.
I’m submitting my H app by the priority deadline, Dec 1, so I won’t even know about Stanford yet… but actually, one of the things I intend to learn from a rejection is to super tweak the things I looked back on and said, “Dangit Prussia, what did you do there?! You should have XYZ, not ABC! Doofus! Dimwit! Boob!”</p>
They only send you physical mail if you’re accepted. I think it’s better to just read the email when it comes, because I actually think waiting and waiting only for it to slowly sink in that nothing’s coming would be much worse. </p>