<p>@Prussia, you’re making the Official SCEA Decision thread, correct?</p>
<p>Only 15 days left basically!</p>
<p>I just want you all to know that Yale’s SCEA thread is owning ours. Though they started in May.</p>
<p>Yup!</p>
<p>I plan on making it one week beforehand, unless there are objections/suggestions otherwise.</p>
<p>Would someone else like to make the discussion thread?
Or should we just use this thread for that, when the time comes?</p>
<p>I think one week is fine. Though we would all have to pledge not to put non-decisions on it. That would just clutter it up. You called dibbs on making it, you can make it.</p>
<p>I, for one, think that the threads should be different.
1.) Decisions are important enough to have their own thread.
2.) This thread can continue to be for commentary and such, but can you imagine being a 2015er who would have to go through 50+ pages to find decisions?
3.) How would they even know which thread it was in?
4.) I think you would get more decisions posted if it was its own thread. Having it be part of this thread would decrease the value, and people would get sidetracked and discuss decisions instead of posting their own.</p>
<p>Oh no no no, I certainly intend on making the decisions thread separate. I just mean how people wanted a different thread than the decisions thread for DISCUSSING the decisions, as, just as you’re saying, we don’t want a decisions thread cluttered with discussion.
So, in other words, I was asking if someone else wants to make the separate discussion-of-decisions thread, or if people just want to discuss decisions in this one. (As you said, “continue to be for commentary and such.”)</p>
<p>The decisions thread itself will be fully new, separate, official, and free of non-decisions posts as possible.</p>
<p>i agree
we should definitely not clutter the decision thread with comments</p>
<p>Oh, I see. My bad then. If I could, I would retract everything I just said. I suppose I could delete, but then your post would make no sense, and then this post would make no sense…</p>
<p>Anyway, hmm, I think it’s human nature to discuss decisions on the decision thread. It’s just to hard to reference specific acceptances/rejections on another thread and expect people to click on the link and then go back to the other thread and respond there. Though we should keep it to a minimum.</p>
<p>Haha, I said the same thing earlier, but it seemed most others wanted a different thread for comments, so I agreed to keep them separate.</p>
<p>I think just little things like “congrats” and “aww, I really hoped you’d get in :(” are fine in the decisions thread, but a deeper discussion should go in another. For example, the horrible and eye-glazing AA debate that broke out all over last year’s decisions.
Commenting on how “slaughterous” this year was, or taking note of some specific trend, etc, are the kind of things I think we could move to a separate discussion thread.</p>
<p>I don’t generally watch TV, but I LOVE Glee. I hear about House all the time (my sister watches it and my pre-med bf is completely obsessed), but I’ve never given it a chance. Partly because I have to watch every episode of a show in sequence or else I can’t enjoy it. :P</p>
<p>As of late, Halloween has been creeping up my list of favorite holidays. I’m not the type to meticulously plan out costumes or anything, but it’s fun to just dress up for school and have no one question it. I’d still have to say, though, that New Year’s Eve is my all-time favorite. The feeling of rebirth and renewal, plus the inevitable flood of nostalgia… I’m getting excited just thinking about it. :)</p>
<p>We should definitely have a separate decision thread and a separate discussion thread.</p>
<p>My school isn’t allowed to do anything Halloween-related.
The administration doesn’t really have a problem with it, but many of the parents are religious conservanazis (and would complain loudly).
We’re a small private school, so… Gotta listen to those parents.
My Spanish teacher spent like a whole class period earlier this year talking about why she doesn’t like/celebrate Halloween at all, haha.</p>
<p>My school is basically the opposite. Not only do we celebrate Halloween, but we have a Halloween carnival for little kids. Where the Gay-Straight Alliance teaches them all to color rainbow pumpkins.</p>
<p>I love the Bay Area. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, well, we… We have manatees! You know you wish you had manatees!</p>
<p>Alright, yeah, I’m jealous. :(</p>
<p>Prussia, in one of your recent posts you said that Stanford has a history of sending out EA decisions a few days early (making this year’s possible early date a Friday). If you have the exact info for the last few years of when decisions came out, would you mind including them here? Thanks. :)</p>
<p>Last year was Dec. 12th at 5:15 PM. Year before that was Dec. 14th at 4:30. Year before that was actually at the scheduled time, Dec. 15th at 3:00. It has technically been getting earlier and earlier each year.</p>
<p>Sources:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/611562-official-stanford-2013-scea-decisions-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/611562-official-stanford-2013-scea-decisions-3.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/424094-stanford-official-scea-decisions-2012-a-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/424094-stanford-official-scea-decisions-2012-a-3.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/269078-official-2011-scea-decisions-4.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/269078-official-2011-scea-decisions-4.html</a></p>
<p>Sure! Easy peasy.</p>
<p>Class of '13 -
SCEA: December 12 (Friday)
RD: March 31</p>
<p>Class of '12 -
SCEA: December 14 (Friday)
RD: March 28</p>
<p>Class of '11 -
SCEA: December 15 (Friday)
RD: March 30</p>
<p>Class of '10 -
SCEA: December 15 (Thursday)
RD: March 31</p>
<p>****!!! wow, 2k + posts on yales…</p>
<p>we need to pick it up</p>
<p>btw just watched star trek (twice in a row), and it was AWSOME!!!</p>
<p>captain…</p>
<p>CUPCAKE!!!</p>
<p>Pretty ironic, since their apps actually went down this year, haha.</p>
<p>I’m kind of interested in seeing Star Trek, just because some people I know to have awesome tastes enjoy it.
I’ve never really cared for Sci-Fi, except for my geeky, embarrassing adoration of the X-Files, which my friend dragged me into.
It is the best ever.</p>
<p>Hey all, new topic…</p>
<p>I’ve decided to make an official “random SECA decision” generator, which based on some parameters, will give you a meaningless decision (accepted/deferred/rejected).</p>
<p>I have the basic equation; however I need to populate it with random variables. Some examples would be:</p>
<p>–Your height (cm)
–Shoe Size
–Number of letters in your last name
–Number of days until next birthday
–Latitudinal coordinates of your house
–Estimated Age of your 3rd grade teacher
–Estimated Number of times you’ve said the phrase: “Light Saber,” in your lifetime
(if you need help estimating that one, [Fermi</a> problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem]Fermi”>Fermi problem - Wikipedia))</p>
<p>ect ect…</p>
<p>*please note variables should be: quantitative, somewhat unique for each person, universal, and preferably not super application decision related (“SAT composite” is bad, “Number of words in common app essay” is OK…)
*don’t worry about negative or 0 values, ill just throw in the old “Absolute value + 1,” if I need to remove a discontinuity in the equation…</p>
<p>so yea, I need some suggestions for variables that fit the guidelines specified above.</p>
<p>THANKS!!!</p>
<p>hmm… so looking at the trends, it could be Dec. 10 - 12th… I suspect it to be Dec. 12th the most. The admissions office is closed on Sat/Sun I guess. So if not 12th they’ll have to do it on Dec. 15.</p>