@Novelica Haha, I needed to read that! I have two midterms tomorrow & IDK how I’m gonna be able to study for them after knowing what Stanford chooses!
Decisions:
4pm PST
7pm EST
Really starting to doubt myself as a traditional 4-year student. All of you vets and non-trad are super impressive. @mjr2013 Is the breakdown really half peer institutions and half non-traditional?
@mjr2013 What’s the breakdown of non-traditional and traditional students?
@Thea19 That vlog makes me feel bad to even try.
I’ve always thought I’ve had a good personal narrative, but following the number of rejections, and realizing the amazing stories that people truly have (including those in this thread), I’m confident that I don’t have a shot.
I know past transfers say that it’s fairly evenly split between non-traditionals and traditionals, but I have doubts.
Regardless, good luck to everyone!
My year it was about 50/50. I’m back in here as I helped two people apply and am anxious all over again for them. GL to all
While non-trad and vets are impressive indeed, you gotta realize we had more time to do those things, where in a traditional student’s case, you’re busy with school and such. I would imagine schools would be able to take that into consideration. Otherwise, theoretically we can all skip a year or two to do amazing things to awe the AOs.
Just a personal point. I think regardless of the outcome in just 1.5 hour from now, at least you will NOT regret the fact that at the very least you applied. At least you went through and attempted it beyond all odds and percentages which are near under 1%. You are all remarkable for daring to even challenge that percentage and wish you the best of luck in the upcoming hours.
If it makes anyone feel better, I pulled off the miracle of the year by being accepted as a transfer to Harvard, so if I am accepted by Stanford I will decline the offer and someone on the waitlist will become a very happy individual.
I hope I’d be fortunate enough to even make the waitlist. 
@03obvious do you mind posting stats?
I spent 5 years in the Marine Corps as an Arabic Linguist/ Signals Intelligence and just got out as a Sergeant. My essays were heavily influenced by my time in the Marine Corps, so they were probably much different than anyone who is not a veteran. Here are some of my academic stats:
Coastal Carolina Community College - 4.0 GPA/ Graduated with honors
Member of Phi Theta Kappa
Associate of Arts in Arabic from the Defense Language Institute - 3.2 GPA
Associate of Arts from CCCC
SAT - 1350 (680 Eng 670 Math)
I also attended the Warrior Scholar Project at the University of Southern California.
Used programs that help military veterans get into higher education such as: Service2School and the Leadership Scholar Program.
Major: Financial Economics w/ secondary concentration in Arabic
Best of luck everyone!
I have never been this nervous before!
@User47392 Omg me too!!
rejected
That’s it I’m taking the SAT and math subject tests! Since I never went to high school I shouldn’t even expect that I would get in anywhere without it. I’m just silly.
Rejected.
Rejected
Rejected. The exact same rejection letter I got last year except for one part:
“We also want to let you know we cannot evaluate future applications from you because this is your third application to Stanford. It is our policy to consider no more than three undergraduate applications from any one student.”
Lol.
@waterperson Did they send out an email or you just opened the portal?