<p>Admission decisions will, in fact, be released sometime after 3pm (Pacific Time) today, March 29, several days ahead of schedule.</p>
<p>The Office of Undergraduate Admission has completed its evaluation and selection process earlier than expected and to alleviate anxiety among our applicants and their families, we will release all admission decisions sometime today after 3pm. All decisions will be sent via email from Richard Shaw, Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, and will not be available on any Stanford website. Students who are admitted will also be mailed a formal offer letter of admission today as well. To avoid sending disappointing news twice, we will not mail paper copies of decisions to students who are not offered admission. Please do not call the Office for admission decisions as we will not release them by phone.</p>
<p>Of the 34,350 applications received, a total of 2440 students (7.1%) will be admitted. An additional 1078 students will be offered a space on our waitlist. Regrettably, we cannot consider any letters or calls of appeal whatsoever. All admission decisions are final and we never alter any admission decision once it has been rendered.</p>
<p>As I mentioned in my March 24th update, we were humbled by this year's admission process and we have great respect for those students who have applied for admission. We wish all of our candidates the best and know that they will all have a wonderful collegiate experience.</p>
<p>Please be aware that the Office of Undergraduate Admission will close today at 3pm to complete the mailing process. We will re-open Wednesday at 8:30am.</p>
<p>stevierimbaud, if you’re so sure of that and not trying to bolster yourself against possible disappointment, why didn’t you withdraw your Stanford application once you were admitted to MIT?</p>
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<li><p>Of course I wouldn’t withdraw my app after paying the application fee. How do you even do that 10 days before the decision date? I sure don’t know.</p></li>
<li><p>You might be right about your first assumption. I’ve not thought too much about the psychological aspect of college acceptance/rejection etc so I don’t specifically know how to interpret my reaction. I also think I’m more lackadaisical because I’m an international - e.g admission in the US could never mean as much to me as it does to you because I have a very good backup plan.</p></li>
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<p>Looks like they will accept 100 more students. that means, to me, they expect lower yield this time, or prepare to make inroad into HYPM’s turf.</p>
<p>isn’t this admission rate reflective of the entire process (REA and RD)? Because REA had a higher admit rate if you look at the numbers, so wouldn’t that mean < 7.1% admit rate for RD?</p>
<p>^I’m already here at Stanford, dmb. Having just seen that you’re a veteran, I am raising my good luck wishes to you exponentially. Thanks for your service, and I hope you will be coming to Stanford! Now off to class for me.</p>
Having just seen that you’re a veteran, I am raising my good luck wishes to you exponentially. Thanks for your service, and I hope you will be coming to Stanford! Now off to class for me.</p>