@philosophie we really don’t have any clue how much legacy helps. While it’s true legacies have a ridiculously high admit rate, their parents also know what Stanford is looking for so the kids with legacies are likely to be better prepared.
Less than 6 days… tense af
Guys. Tufts or ucla?
@cooldude1098 I’m pretty sure ucla’s deadline was November 30
Ik. I applied but i don’t know if i should apply to tufts ed2, making it my second choice after stanford or apply rd making ucla my second choice
quick question: if another university is asking you to briefly ellaborate on one of your EC activities/work experiences, and you’ve already answered this exact question for another university, can you use the same answer again? Thanks! 
@epoque I mean they would never know you reused the answer, so might as well since it’ll save you time and effort
@nonzie okay thanks! that’s what i thought, but i just wanted to be sure
what about http://■■■■■■■■■■/#timetogetrejected
Haha (cry)
I try so hard to avoid thinking about how happy I’d be if I got accepted…but my daydreams always take over…anyone else feel the same these days?
@lansky I feel the same way! I imagine what I would do if I got in, but then I get too carried away… I guess at this point we just need to be prepared for the worst.
Preparing for the worst makes the joy of getting accepted so much better… or at least I hope it will lol
A little under 5 days now! Who’s crying?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN 5 DAYS I THOUGHT WE DON’T FIND OUT UNTIL THE 15TH IM FREAKING OUT
I told my mom that I’ve made my peace with getting rejected today and she started into this pep talk and said “the odds are in your favor” and I was like “MOM THE ACCEPTANCE RATE IS 5% THE ODDS ARE IN NO ONE’S FAVOR” and now I feel like I should be entering the Hunger Games
What a great Sunday.
@JillianO you obviously haven’t been keeping up with this thread. It’s probably the 11th.
I sometimes wish Stanford adcoms knew how Stanford literally occupies 99% of my thoughts. How it’s depressed me and made me happy in disproportionate amounts. How I consistently lie to myself that I shouldn’t be emotionally invested in such an impossibly difficult school to get into but end up doing so anyways. How I invariably fight stubborn fantasies of post acceptance emotions but remain curious to know the kind of things they’d say about me on the handwritten note from the regional admissions officer. But maybe they wouldn’t let such a freak into their school so I’ll just settle for the one-sided love(but mostly obsession) X_X
I want to take a week off school and marathon TV shows… that’s the only thing I seem capable of doing as I wait. I don’t even care if it’s a rejection or acceptance- this feels like being in limbo and I really want to move on.
@kenyan254 if I didn’t know that it was you who posted that comment, and not me, I would think it was me. The similarities in our thoughts are uncanny, and I wouldn’t be surprised if all of us in this thread find ourselves feeling that way.
I actually am trying to imagine post rejection and I swear it’s like for the first time in my life my mind’s drawn an endless blank
@afamelas you can imagine I was being modest with whatever I was putting out in public. Haha. What makes the feeling worse is that the admissions process is so obscure so no matter how much literature I read about the selection process (I’ve probably read everything about Stanford admissions on Quora ) I can’t completely decide whether I’ll be admitted or not. It doesn’t help that I’m a very calculative person and like to know how everything will turn out beforehand. Well anyway, I hope everyone here ends up happy, wherever that will be, on the farm or not. Meanwhile, I will binge on unhealthy food and the psychedelic Mr. Robot