<p>thanks 
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<p>@detwylder Iām so looking forward to being on winter break by noon on the 12th. I wonāt have to deal with people asking for three weeks 
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<p>@emenyaā Thatās why I told no-one in my school where I was applying. Only a few friends here and there, but they donāt ask me regularly of my result. </p>
<p>@imagineer10ā and @detwylderā: thatās why Iāve only told close friends and family. If I get it, Iāll make it public (duh), but if I donāt, Iāll only tell the people that ask about it.</p>
<p>@emenya Same! If a rejection does happen, I have four more essays to get over it with.</p>
<p>@tyrion17 my rejection advice would be the same advice Iād say for dealing with any negative emotion. Keep yourself occupied, and as much as you want to isolate yourself, donāt, or at least not for long. Plan something with friends or family the night of decisions if you possibly can. Either it will be a celebration of your acceptance or a means of coping with rejection, and either way itās a healthy idea. If youāre active maybe go for a run or do some exercise that night to release some endorphins, should help with distracting yourself and just increasing your mood overall. And if none of that works, and you feel yourself slipping down into something more than just disappointment, talk to someone about it. Letting yourself fall into depression over an admissions decision wonāt get you anywhere. There is a lot more to life than Stanford, even if it doesnāt seem that way right now to many of us!</p>
<p>@acprete that sounds great actually, thanks! Iāll probably be doing a lot of eating/practicing the piano</p>
<p>See, everyone at my schools things I am āa geniusā and āthe smartest person in the worldā which is TOTALLY not the cases probably 99% of you all have better scores than me on the SAT. I just wish I would not have told everyone about stanford. But now that I think about it, I am WAY too passionate about it to not talk about it on the daily. So, you win some you lose some. Atleast they donāt know the official date I get accepted. My phone would be blown up with texts asking if I got in.</p>
<p>Yea, music will most definitely be my outlet</p>
<p>how will we find out about the decision? they send an email? any other way?</p>
<p>@srabra They will send out an e-mail.</p>
<p>Whatās tough for me is that I go to a competitive high school where half the kids are applying early to elite colleges, so thereās a competitive nature to deal with. Itās kind of sad that some of us feel better about ourselves when we see another student rejected. One of my friends also applied REA to Stanford, and things have been kind of awkward between us recently. I donāt know if anyone here has to deal with that. Iāve decided, when results come out, not to tell anyone at school other than my teachers my decision, just because I donāt want to create tension or make anyone feel uncomfortable. In the spring, Iāll definitely let friends know where Iām going, but itās a bit early now to talk, especially since some are only applying RD and havenāt submitted apps yet.</p>
<p>@emenya I read somewhere that the REA acceptance was ~10%? Or did I read it wrong?</p>
<p>@sunburst224 I do have quite a few friends who also applied REA to Stanford, though we talk about our applications and whatnot quite openly.</p>
<p>Did anyone get an interview?</p>
<p>Literally half the school has asked me at least once in the past two days if Iāve heard back yet, all my teachers ask, even the principal asks me on a daily basis, and one of my good friends already got in through Questbridge, it feels like so much pressure.</p>
<p>Luckily my counselor had a long conversation with my regional Stanford admissions officer today that apparently went really well so thereās hope</p>
<p>@tankfrank13ā
Why was your counselor on the phone with your Stanford admissions officer? Did they call your counselor or did your counselor call them?</p>
<p>@OrangeLandā
Itās slightly more than 10% (something like %10.7).</p>
<p>@sunburst224ā
Yeah I lucked out. Most people in my school seem to have applied to Princeton or other east coast schools. It will definitely be awkward when some people get in and others donāt. I think itās only natural. I would be envious if someone got into Stanford from my school and I didnāt.</p>
<p>She had been trying for the past month to talk to him, she even sent a fax I think but theyāve just been too busy, and she finally got through today. She actually called to āpitchā me, and to put my application in the context of where Iām applying from (the literal middle of nowhere). Nothing about my actual admission decision or the release date, but if anything it could have at least been enough to get him to pick up my application again @imagineer10ā </p>
<p>I got one, and it went really well! @OrangeLandā </p>
<p>No one at my school applies to ivy leagues or to top tier schools. I never even heard of the SAT 2 subject tests until I joined CC. My school never mentioned them. Not even once. I donāt even know if my counselors know what they are!
I looked them up on college board one time to see where the tests are offered, and I would have had to drive over an hour to find a testing location for them. So yeah, Iām not competing against anyone from my school. And probably my whole region.</p>
<p>Oh okay! I wasnāt sure if stanford was calling your high school to talk about you. I was about to write up a quick email to my counselor to see if he had talked to Stanford! I hope the ātalkingā up worked for you! @tankfrank13ā </p>
<p>I had an interview, the guy I got was really awesome</p>
<p>@tankfrank13 @drp888 Thatās great! I got one too and my interview took place at a coffee shopā¦but the coffee shop was full and we ended up walking to someplace elseā¦and someplace elseā¦and it was evening and quite cold outside. My interviewer kept apologizing to me. Not the best interview I had because of the walking but quite entertaining and interesting! My interviewer was super nice as well. :)</p>
<p>I donāt think any of the top schools place much emphasis on interviews, especially those that are conducted off-campus. I think they use the interviews just to match what we said with what we put on the app, but I heard itās not important enough to affect the admissions decision that much (bombing the interview isnāt good though). None of the off-campus interviewers have our application either because of privacy issues or something like that.</p>