<p>That’s me. Looks like you have quite a few ambitious apps in. I wouldn’t sweat it too much if I were you. Worse things have happened to people than being forced to attend a UC with a Regent’s Scholarship.</p>
<p>Perhaps if we’re both lucky - or both unlucky - we’ll run into each other this Fall.</p>
<p>Thank you. I have to keep that in mind. </p>
<p>Where else did you apply?</p>
<p>In order from safety to reach: Humboldt, Merced, Davis, Stanford, CalPoly SLO.</p>
<p>Yes, for me, CalPoly SLO is more of a reach than Stanford. I pretty much had zero chance there and should have saved myself the cost of the application. My interest was borderline to begin with, and after all the things I’ve learned about SLO since October, I wouldn’t go there even if they paid me. Funny thing is, it still hurt to get the letter.</p>
<p>I’d be happy at any of the other four, to be honest. Merced had some very significant advantages over Davis, and both have their advantages over Stanford, while Humboldt has the best location. I try to keep reminding myself how lucky I am to be in a situation where my worst case scenario is legitimately awesome. Even so, I’m stressing about the UC decisions so much that I can’t get any work done at all this afternoon. Just sitting here watching the Bourne Identity and counting the minutes.</p>
<p>Oh, Matt Damon! If only you could karate chop the person whose job it is to stress me out. Preferably while uttering your Team America catchphrase. That would be great.</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>Congratulations on Davis! </p>
<p>Stanford is among my personal top choices primarily because of its financial aid. It doesn’t hurt that the school is also awesome.</p>
<p>Congrats bakemaster and BCP on Davis.</p>
<p>Did Stanford over-enroll its class of 2014?</p>
<p>if they did, our chances will be significantly hurt.</p>
<p>Where did you hear that?</p>
<p>Stanford thread!! You’re back! I missed you so.</p>
<p>Should be less than two weeks, everyone…tick tock, tick tock… :D</p>
<p>And I would like to send my congrats to bakemaster and BCP as well!! Ah, I can just feel the excitement in the air… someday we may look back on this horrid, stressful time with very fond memories…</p>
<p>@goingforanobel</p>
<p>For class of 2014, although the number of applications rise, the admission rate does not significantly change.</p>
<p>That implies that class of 2014 is too crowded.</p>
<p>Anyone knows the exact number? Correct me</p>
<p>Argh! Noooo, go away, Stanford thread… I don’t want to think about you, I need to be coding my truss analyzer! My stress level has dropped so much since I heard back from all the other schools, but now Stanford thread has returned. lkhsdfljshdflkjh</p>
<p>Regarding exact numbers:
This isn’t a significant increase from 2010-11, either in terms of raw numbers or percentages, according to:
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<p>bakemaster drops the hammer.</p>
<p>My gracious thank yous to eyethink and chasethecarrot. 
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<p>I am a transfer applicant from a community college. I feel inspired because a classmate of mine got accepted last year. I was sitting next to him when he got the email. He started crying. I didn’t even know him. I started crying. SO heres my stats: </p>
<p>GPA 4.0 cumulative
Activities; Phi Theta Kappa, Christian Club, Open Voice Forum, Volunteer at Church , blah blah blah
Essay: I feel it is strong. I have a crazy life story.
SATS: 1790</p>
<p>Uh, well I am white. That is bound to count against me.
But I hope that all you who are hoping to get in do.
Including myself.
My community college is extremely close to the stanford campus.</p>
<p>To be honest, I don’t think anyone on CC is capable of giving a reasonable opinion on these things. I know this doesn’t help answer the question too much, but it’s just a thought.</p>
<p>There are so many factors that go into the admission process that it’d be near impossible to give you a reasonable chance with the stats you posted. I think the best way to figure out if you had what they were looking for is if you get accepted. </p>
<p>IMO, any kind of speculation concerning chances is probably wrong.</p>
<p>@bakemaster:</p>
<p>From 2340 to 2427, that is a significant increase.</p>
<p>They admitted 24 transfers last year. Now I even doubt whether there is any spot left for transfers.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s that significant when you consider that these numbers represent offers of admission, not enrollment. There has been a noticeable upward trend in the number of applications each student submits to college, particularly among those applying to the most selective schools and particularly with regards to common app schools. This implies a decrease in yield for schools like Stanford. If they are predicting lower yield, they have to send out more offers to end up with the same enrollment.</p>
<p>Looking at the stats page again, they had about a 71.5% yield from their direct admits and accepted only 5.2% of the students who accepted a spot on the waiting list. In order to have the exact same freshman enrollment as last year, those numbers only need to drop to 69.0% and 4.8%, respectively. If the latter rate stays at 5.2%, they’ve only admitted 3 more freshmen than last year. And since the number of transfer students they admit is connected not only to their freshman yield, but also their retention rate among enrolled students, it’s really tough to predict with any confidence that a <5% increase in freshman offers of admission will significantly affect the number of transfers who are admitted.</p>
<p>What I’d really like to know is the total number of transfer applications Stanford received this year, to which few minutes on Google didn’t provide an answer. Though the data on [this</a> page](<a href=“http://blog.stanfordreview.org/2011/04/16/the-decline-of-transfer-admissions/]this”>http://blog.stanfordreview.org/2011/04/16/the-decline-of-transfer-admissions/) suggest that while the mean has been surprisingly steady over the past decade, the actual number may fluctuate wildly from year to year. I’d be much less concerned about the increase in freshman enrollment than I would be about the number of transfer applicants jumping from 1250 back up to 1400 (for instance).</p>
<p>@bakemaster: </p>
<p>I have the information from a high ranking source at Stanford, the number of transfer applicants this year was approximately ~1,600.</p>
<p>There, now we’ve got something to fret about.</p>
<p>Though really, whether we’re talking about a 2% admit rate or a 1.5% admit rate or a 1% admit rate… It’s still something of a lotto even for the best applicants. Even if someone said hey, it’s going to be a 4% admit rate this year, are any of us going to breathe a sigh of relief?</p>
<p>Of course not! That’s not what this message board is for. It’s for stressing yourself out and asking questions of the wrong people in hopes of getting the answer you want.</p>
<p>What, me bitter?</p>
<p>Haha, bakemaster I hope you get into Stanford and other schools you applied to (Harvard?).
Your posts have been the most real (but not brash) and amusing. It’s nice to find a post among many that constantly speculate and vent about stress and impatience with the process. Point is, kudos to you. :)</p>
<p>As always, Bakemaster makes a fantastic point. So in that case, Mr. or Ms. So-and-so (whoever wanted to be “chanced”- and no, I’m not pressing the “back” button to find your name), I’d say, with complete confidence, that you have a 96.4% chance of acceptance to Stanford. Unfortunately, I also happen to know, with all scientific certainty and beyond ANY possible shadow of a doubt, that a 9.4 earthquake, on the Richter scale, spurred throughout the entirety of the San Andreas fault, will cause the state of California, in its entirety, to break away from all connecting, life-giving North American earth and fall into the ocean at precisely 4:32 pm on May 16th, 2011. So, unfortunately, you will never in fact receive that acceptance, as Stanford University will cease to exist (and according to your location, I suggest you evacuate post-haste if you wish to avoid the same fate).</p>
<p>Or we could go this route—</p>
<p>Mr. or Ms. So-and-so,
Actually, while I am pleased to say that your academic record and extracurricular affairs certainly demonstrate exemplary work and a dynamic strength of character, I regret to inform you that the only transfer applicants to be offered admission to Stanford University for the fall of 2011 will be those who have demonstrated a clearly unparalled mastery of both the art of Japanese oragami and tandem fire-stick juggling (preferably exhibiting a bare minimum of novice-level skills in performing both arts simultaneously). The only possible exception to these transfer admission prerequisites would be granted to any applicant who has instead demonstrated exceptional accomplishments in unicycling, facial reconstructive surgery, and Chia Pet harvesting, from seed to fully matured plant, and again, only in the cases of profoundly talented applicants who are expressly capable of completing all three tasks, simultaneously, on command.
If you are, in fact, such an applicant, I suggest you make the committee aware by sending a Vhs tape recording (no other recording mediums will be accepted), via United States postal mail, of yourself performing said acts, accompanied by an affidavit signed and dated by three witnesses, in addition to yourself and the required notary public, swearing to the legitimacy of your taped performance. Prior to and following the completion of the aforementioned tasks on your personal recording, you must also include a full-body visual shot of yourself holding the current, local newspaper for your area, visibly displaying the date at the time of taping, in month/day/year format.
Oh, and an additional 3,000,000 dollars, in non-sequential, unmarked, American bills should also be included, contained in a non-descript, Hanes brand laundry bag in burnt sienna (if burnt sienna is unavailable, burnt umber may be considered an acceptable fabric color substitute), manufactured in 1987.
I can assure you with complete confidence that Stanford’s admissions committee is immeasurably eager to view this pending supplement to your existing application, however, if you are unable to provide such visual documentation of your unique abilities due to financial circumstances (inability to purchase any of the required materials, such as a video camera, daily newspaper, or face to reconstruct), you may submit to the committee a written appeal, requesting an on-site performance of the listed deeds, with all supporting materials to be provided by the university.</p>
<p>If, however, you do not possess the necessary, revised qualifications for Stanford’s fall 2011 transfer applicants, rest assured that Stanford and its affiliates will most definitely wish you well on your educational journey and will even encourage you to apply again in the future, but only upon completion of three separate graduate degrees and setting a new Guinness world record in consumption-of-uncooked-shell-pasta-in-a-single-sitting.</p>
<p>*These are, unfortunately, only marginally less reliable “chances” than any others we will receive (unless, perhaps, we stumble upon an actual adcom official, but even then, would we know it??), whether they be on this site or anywhere; schools with a single digit percentage admit rate are truly somewhat of a crap-shoot. I’m pretty sure someone else already mentioned on this thread that Stanford will undoubtedly have over a thousand fully-and even “over”-qualified applicants to choose from…who knows what they might do. Although there is evidence indicating that they like the “oddballs,” the students who are not only exceptional applicants and people in every way, but also have something particularly, incredibly unique and fantastical to bring to the table. So, with that in mind, I sincerely hope we all possess talents on-par with simultaneous oragami folding and tandem fire-stick juggling…</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>In any case, thank you all in advance for allowing me to fully alleviate myself of all thoughts concerning finals, at least for a brief moment. Hehehehe</p>
<p>You are AMAZING. Ohmygosh Chia Pet harvesting.</p>
<p>Edit: Anyone feeling empty after D-Day <em>should</em> read this:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/621031-rejected-stanford-youll-live-richard-shaw.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/621031-rejected-stanford-youll-live-richard-shaw.html</a></p>