<p>@Hopeful66 This link: <a href=“https://axess.sahr.stanford.edu/”>https://axess.sahr.stanford.edu/</a> then click “Check Status”</p>
<p>Does anyone know what the timeline is for the admissions decision process? I know that it doesn’t really matter but I can’t help wondering how it works specifically at Stanford. (Does one person review first then a committee, do they look at all of the applications as a committee or not…) </p>
<p>Does anyone know how important interviews are for Stanford? (For example MIT interviews are pretty important and Yale ones not so much.)</p>
<p>@zgamergirl The interviewer that I had said that the interview did not have much bearing on the admissions decision and can only help the interviewee. If you didn’t get an interview, it will not hurt you. </p>
<p>@ellenak96 This is worth a read [Sink</a> or Swim](<a href=“http://news.stanford.edu/stanfordtoday/ed/9801/9801fea502.shtml]Sink”>http://news.stanford.edu/stanfordtoday/ed/9801/9801fea502.shtml)
From what I know, there’s one person assigned to a region and reads all the applications there. They mark the comments about the applicant somewhere and then it’s passed along. That’s about all I know, except that applications are read only once or twice because of how many applications the admission officers have to get through.</p>
<p>My daughter just had her Stanford interview yesterday and it was awful. The interviewer basically said Stanford is extremely difficult so she hoped my daughter applied to other colleges (of course she is). Then she tried to discourage her from her major and said the students are so competitive and cut-throat that they have to put homework in lock boxes. My daughter cried when she got home - she already knew Stanford was a long shot but she definitely has the stats to back up her application. She has worked hard for her grades and scores. Her Georgetown interview was fantastic - needless to say she was left with a bad impression of Stanford. By the way, my other daughter had a fantastic Stanford interview two years ago by a different alumni. Go figure.</p>
<p>Thank you @zgamergirl, that was really helpful!</p>
<p>Hmmm. I wonder how they will do QuestBridge applicants since they have to have decisions completed two weeks earlier?</p>
<p>@Madison07 I’m so sorry for your daughter. That’s so terrible. The interview shouldn’t make the interviewee uncomfortable. I feel that if Stanford were really like that, a lot more people would know it.</p>
<p>Thanks @emenya. I agree that Stanford has more of a reputation for a cooperative environment. My nieces and newphews went there and my father-in-law taught there for awhile so we had a totally different impression. For some reason this interviewer was hell-bent on discouraging my daughter from Stanford but when my daughter asked her if she had actually liked Stanford when she attended (in the early 90’s) she claimed she did. My daughter said she acted very “twitchy and odd,” so maybe she just was new to the process and was uncomfortable with her role as an interviewer. </p>
<p>@nagintapls Thank you!</p>
<p>@emenya I think the most memorable part of the interview was when she asked how I deal with rejection from my family down in South Carolina for being gay. Haha I tried so hard to keep it together, but eventually gave in. It just hurts when you’re not accepted for being you, y’know? She said reassuring things afterwards. Honestly, I’m so glad she asked me that. I saw the interview as more of an intimate conversation rather than as an actual interview. The worst part was that is was only 35-40 minutes. Time went by so quickly. </p>
<p>Anybody got 2 interview invites from 2 different alumni? Would you go to both?</p>
<p>No, but based on our experience you should go for both.</p>
<p>Uh… I wouldn’t recommend you to go to both. You should tell both of them that you got two interview opportunities and then if they can work it out. </p>
<p>@Madison07 I hope that the interview was just an anomoly and won’t reflect in anyway on your daughter. (Which I don’t think it will) Did she apply REA or is she doing regular decision? </p>
<p>@KelMoo that’s so great! I’m really glad she was inviting and you were able to open up. I know it must have been hard to talk about such an important part of who you are.</p>
<p>Actually, I would take both interviews @Hopeful66 . It wouldn’t hurt would it? Any alumni interviewers here who would like to chime in?</p>
<p>Also it’s been really interesting hearing everyone’s ‘best’ and ‘worst’ parts of your interview! Keep 'em coming for us who aren’t getting interviews! 
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<p>Best part: he seemed to like me.
Worst: I seemed just like a stereotypical Asian male, didn’t talk about humanities at all (and I Acfualky really love world history …). </p>
<p>My son had his Stanford interview on Sunday, it took about an hour and the person talking to him was pretty laid back. She was Bio-med major, he is interested in CS. They talked a lot about his interests outside academics, he mentioned that interviewer took notes during their conversation, she gave him a lot of information about campus and living arrangements. </p>
<p>If I selected “Not Applying For Financial Aid” on the common app for Stanford, do I need the CSS Profile for institutional scholarships? Are those scholarships different than Financial Aid?</p>
<p>Best part: he did most of the talking and he gave me a lot of info about Stanford
Worst part: I don’t think he really asked me too many questions, but either way I reinforced a lot of what was on my app and he seemed impressed!</p>
<p>Anybody who’s done the CSS profile know what they’re asking for when prompting “student’s career objective?”
Job title good enough?</p>