<p>thanks gravitas2. maybe i am just getting hyper anxious. my son is surprisingly not worried. and yes he does have some extracurriculars but nothing in sports. anyway thanks</p>
<p>I think it really just depends on if the admission board thinks that you will be a good fit with the community and campus or not. They obviously admit people regardless of athletic talent, because not everyone is an athlete at stanford. Hopefully we just have what it takes to “fit in” on campus </p>
<p>@windoo1 This is directly from Stanford athletics.</p>
<p>“The Department of Athletics offers 36 varsity sports—20 for women, 16 for men. (Sailing is a co-ed sport.) Also offered are 26 club sports. Stanford offers 300 athletic scholarships. About 900 student participate in intercollegiate sports. Fifty three percent are men, and 47 percent are women. Stanford scholar-athletics have earned 153 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships—a national best.”</p>
<p>There are ~7k undergrads at Stanford, so ~13% are intercollegiate athletes. </p>
<p>thank you KMizzle. i am just going to take this as Stanford gives a lot of importance to sports. nothing good or bad about that. it is their college and their priority so it should be ok</p>
<p>I really hope they release decisions on friday, at this point I don’t care if I get in or not. I just want to know so I can get over it.</p>
<p>@windoo1. I think you still misunderstand. Your son will NOT be competing with the very select “nationally recruited elite athletes”(they are in a different bucket)…he will be competing for a slot against the other science whizzes, USAPHO winners, IPOs, IMOs, Intel -Siemens winners, etc…students who are similar to “him”…</p>
<p>…similarly, the top musicians will be competing for slots open for pianists, violinists, cellists, horn, trombone, composers, conductors, etc…</p>
<p>…whatever your extraordinary extracurricular activity happens to be…you will be evaluated among your “group”…among your URM or ORM status, among your socioeconomic status (poor, middle class, or wealthy), and among the overall needs of the institution…</p>
<p>…and each year, the institutional “needs” may change…</p>
<p>Stanford’s Twitter updated! It’s coming Friday </p>
<p>Friday at 3pm pacific time!</p>
<p>gravitas2 thank you once again . since you spoke about your kids i assume you are a mom too so hopefully you are sympathetic towards the anxiety. also everyone good luck for friday. may the best win</p>
<p>AHHHHH</p>
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<p>@emywemy610 ahh that makes me so nervous. It might not come at 3!! I’m going to be a mess!</p>
<p>I know, they just START at 3. I wonder if the acceptances will be first or if they will just send them all out together</p>
<p>I’m gonna be a mess. I cried just reading that blog post, it’s gonna be so much worse on Friday. </p>
<p>@emywemy610 Haha yea, as soon as its 3, I’m going to be freaking out.</p>
<p>I just felt a surge of depression. Friday is going to be a saaad day.</p>
<p>Just out of plain curiosity, do you guys know when other elite colleges send out their EA/ED decisions?</p>
<p>From the Ivy Coach:</p>
<p>"On December 11th at 5 PM EST, Harvard will notify its Early Action applicants of their admissions decisions. Yale will notify applicants on December 16th. Penn will let its Early Decision applicants — which the school loves so much — know on December 15th at 5 PM EST. Princeton will just beat Penn to the punch, informing applicants at 3 PM EST that same day (December 15th). Dartmouth will be contacting students around then too as will Cornell. Columbia and Brown will inform its applicants at 5 PM EST on December 11th…just like Harvard.</p>
<p>Outside of the Ivy League colleges, Duke will send out admissions decisions on December 11th, Georgetown on December 15th, Johns Hopkins on December 12th at 3 PM EST, MIT on December 13th, Northwestern on December 15th, Stanford on December 12th at 3 PM EST, and Tufts beginning on December 15th. For those of you waiting anxiously for the news, it’s almost that time!"</p>
<p>This post was made a few days ago, so not totally current. I updated the date and time for Stanford.</p>
<p>I know that a lot of them are doing it tomorrow. </p>
<p>Cornell is tomorrow as well.</p>
<p>@enyou2019
I’m not going to lie… You seem like a very low end applicant.
I’ve seen an astronaut-Nobel prize laureate-olympic gold medalist who is black, Hispanic, Native American, adopted, and asexual (all at once) get brutally rejected. This person was also the frozen and preserved son of Leiland Stanford.</p>