<p>^Sorry about your bad news. Ms. McGinty was very clear about that when we spoke on the phone. Dartmouth gave me a waiver and I thought Stanford would do the same for me. No dice, so I shelled out the requisite amount to get my SAT score to them stat!</p>
<p>^hope you good luck:)</p>
<p>^Thank you. I’ll need all of the pleasant salutations. Did you apply anywhere else?</p>
<p>^Yep. I’ve applied some other ivy schools (like Yale Upenn Cornell) and MIT, hope I can get an offer from either of them. :X btw, congratulation on your admission to Cornell!</p>
<p>^Thank you. I was really honored by the call. Sending you my best wishes. :-)</p>
<p>Wanted to say hey to the Forum! Coming from a Community College on the East Coast. Hopefully I’ll be one of the lucky few selected. The two things holding me back are my ACT scores and my essays-which I felt were somewhat weak. Didn’t have time to write them like I wanted and changed some at the last second. Where is everyone else coming from?</p>
<p>I’m from Missouri, also at a CC. Sooo nervous, and seriously, I’m becoming physically ill from the stress of not knowing. I got accepted to Columbia GS yesterday, but I’m not sure if the financial aid will be enough for me to go- I guess they apparently don’t provide the same amazing aid to GS students as they do to the rest of the Columbia population…at least that’s what I’ve heard. I don’t know for sure, though. </p>
<p>My essays and recommendations were solid, I have pretty darn good EC’s…I think the only thing holding me back may be the trouble I got into as a teenager (almost ten years ago) and three withdrawals from last semester because I got kicked out of classes for poor attendance (didn’t have daycare for my son- had straight A’s, but didn’t matter- stupid administrative withdrawal policy)…but as we all know, chances here are pretty slim no matter what, lol. But here’s hopin’. 
Good luck to us all…</p>
<p>Anyone know when we’re expected to start receiving decisions?</p>
<p>im not going crazy about stanford or yale… i know the chances are just so low… go crazy about other schools where you ligit may have a good chance you know?</p>
<p>No, no, poooooor Stanford transfer thread, don’t die…</p>
<p>It is entirely possible that so many people have given up hope.</p>
<p>With such a low acceptance rate, there wasn’t a lot to hope for.</p>
<p>The Yogi Berra joke “No one goes there anymore. It’s too crowded” comes to mind.</p>
<p>^BCP: Yet you still tried. :-)</p>
<p>Well I hope my $90 donation benefits the applicants who make it past the fray.</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>You know only 20-40 transfers are accepted each year right? I believe the acceptance rate is hovering somewhere near 2% amirite? Good luck with your higher education goals in 2011 and beyond</p>
<p>[Transfer</a> Requirements & Process : Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/transfer/]Transfer”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/transfer/)</p>
<p>^LOL if I lived my life in fear of how hard something was or based on the probability of past outcomes, then I wouldn’t be Stanford material right? ;-)</p>
<p>True wisdom.</p>
<p>But it does make 98% of us Stanford rejects, and that’s something I’m willing to live with.</p>
<p>Of course, Stanford isn’t going to be looking at 1,980 unprepared, uninteresting applications and 20 beautiful geniuses who can tie a knot in a cherry stem with their tongues. I’m sure there will be many under-qualified applicants; from my experience working in admissions at a program back East which is almost as highly selective, more than half of the applicants may be under-qualified. But there are going to be literally hundreds of interesting, qualified applicants. I’d rather think of myself as the interesting, qualified applicant, who will either make the team or not, than as a “reject”.</p>
<p>Have you guys seen your letters of rec? One of my recommenders sent me a copy, the other did not. Reading this letter, I was almost speechless. I went from feeling like my job is to make a case for myself with my essays, to feeling like my only job is to not screw up the case he made for me in his letter. It was really something. I’m curious about the other letter too but my hope from that one is more to back up some of the facts in my essays, and support my dedication, than to talk about my character.</p>
<p>I don’t really want to live in silicon valley at all, but everything about the programs I’ve been researching at Stanford sounds fantastic. I hope I don’t have to SIR at a UC before I hear back from Stanford, at least, though it would totally be worth the lost deposit if I did get in.</p>
<p>@bakemaster You’re the Bostonian who also applied to UC Davis, correct? It’s nice to see you. </p>
<p>I use “reject” as literally as possible. Almost the entire applicant pool will be denied admission to Stanford. As much as I agree with you, the amount of deserving applicants is more overwhelming than comforting to me. </p>
<p>I can deduce from the UCD Regents that the letter I couldn’t read is of quality. It was nice to read one of my letters and know that my professors believe in me…even if an adcom should disagree. In the end, that matters more to me.</p>