Okay, lol, so like the paranoid person that I am, I’m looking through everything I submitted and found out that I didn’t get the memo about keeping the additional information section on the CA as short and sweet as possible. It’s over 600 words. I’m realizing some of the things I wrote weren’t necessary, but some of it really was. This is my anxiety speaking, but will this really have a big impact on how the adcoms view me as an applicant? I’m scared that I came across as overboard with that section. Nobody really told me what to do with that section and my counselor made it seem like I could add whatever I wanted… haaaaa
I’m in the same (or maybe worse?) situation as you… My counselor told me to go ahead and put a 600 sth words essay into that part, since that essay is sweet and tells a lot about my background. The problem is no, it’s not an explanation of a dip in grades/ suspension, and it’s just like another common app essay (positive and centers around my qualities) but not like an explanation about financial difficulties or family problems or anything. I listened to my counselor, but now I’m worrying that the officer will get annoyed reading a long essay 
If my application gets deferred, does it affect the way they look at regular decision for my application? Does anyone know how many get deferred?
Almost all of my AI section is explaining some of my extracurricular activities in greater detail––some of which are things that the adcoms wouldn’t have any clue as to what they are/their importance otherwise. A few other short paragraphs, however, are about things that they have definitely heard of, and I’m now realizing that I could have been fine without writing them. Hmm, my counselor barely talked about that section at all, much less writing another essay in it. I guess we’ll both have to find out…
Last year, 743 students were accepted from 7297 applicants, 562 deferred. But Stanford is famous (or notorious?) for deferring/ wailisting fewer people than it admits, and after that ,accept really few deferred and waitlisted applicants I think. Last year, there was none accepted from the waitlist, although I’m not sure how many got accepted after they were deferred. Keep in mind that QB applicants, if do not get in in the match round, are automatically deferred instead of getting rejected. And quite a few QB applicants rank Stanford. So the actual numbers of applicant that got deferred applying through REA might be even significantly lower.
yeah 2 more days until we find out. I guess how they react to that AI also depends on each reader individually, and space/time too. Hopefully while they read mine, it wasn’t at 2am in the morning lol.
Honestly, the only reason I’m nervous about Friday is that it will decide how much work I have to put over winter break on other apps…AND I SERIOUSLY NEED A BREAK T.T
So I had a long thing in my AI section last year too about extracurriculars and being a TA and stuff and all my common app colleges let me in so it couldn’t be that big a deal! Also I know some people who were deferred and then accepted, so they definitely accept some. They defer 8% which is crazy low but I think it is nice. A lot of ivies and MIT defer so many and it just makes you wait several months for rejection 
If you are rejected early you have more time to move on haha.
Current Stanford student procrastinating on finals studying to wish you folks good luck on Friday. Whatever happens, you worked your asses off, and you deserve a break, finals or no finals. 
@weizhong Thank you so much! Much appreciated
Just coming on here to wish you all good luck!
My ds was deferred for the class of 2018. It did make for a loooooong winter. The e-mail that comes with deferrals indicates that the acceptance rate out of the deferred pool is usually around 15%. I am terrible at searching these forums (techno-goob mom here), but a couple of years ago, someone linked something (it was minutes/notes from a meeting at Stanford) that indicated that close to 25% of deferred applicants wind up getting accepted. Some of you ARE going to get deferred. It will be difficult, but do not give up hope!
Can’t stop waiting for the result date announcement!
Still no word…
Why hasn’t there been a tweet!!!? I hate this
@hopefulmuch @JTArms @collegeyeet Last year they heard when they’d find out on Wednesday, although a couple of hours ago. There’s a good chance we’ll find out soon enough (and if not, we’ll find out tomorrow, which isn’t too big of a deal) when our decisions will come out.
Last year they tweeted the decisions release date a day before the rd results came out so maybe that’s what will happen this year? (Call it wishful thinking) But the way I see it, Stanford will just stick to the original 15th this year. But why us? :((
They probably have been reading this thread and figured they would change things up because someone had figured out them out. lol
We are anxious because they have not followed their pattern of release dates for the release date of the release of our results :’)
How random is this college acceptance process for stanny? I know it isn’t anything like a lottery, but random chance had to have some role in this…
If we go back to the December post in 2014 notifying that decisions come out, and retweet/comment, it may remind whoever is in charge of the account to post the new date. Or we can grassroot Stanford admissions via Twitter about this Friday.
Just throwing out ideas.