<p>This moment, Friday, December 12th of 2008, will now and forevermore be known in history as: The Stanford Slaughter.</p>
<p>My condolences to all those who were rejected. We'll all get through this together.</p>
<p>Yeah, seriously.</p>
<p>I remember looking at the Columbia and Dartmouth boards. I thought they were pretty bad, but the stats gave me some hope that I stood a chance. </p>
<p>But today definitely showed how great a misconception I had...</p>
<p>Life goes on though!</p>
<p>yeah. I've also learned a few lessons about applying and I think my future apps will be the stronger for it.</p>
<p>No regrets allowed, anyone! :)</p>
<p>I'm from the lucky Penn boards... I feel sorry :(</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm from the Yale board. I have to say that the Stanford Slaughter shocked and appalled me. Stay tuned on December 15th forth the Yale...Yowzah?</p>
<p>ttan, totally agree. On the Dartmouth, I think one unhooked person was accepted. My hope totally went downhill after that. It truly is a slaughter, and an unjustified one at that.</p>
<p>I'm also from the Yale board. I just dropped in to say, wow. I didn't even think this was plausible, but the numbers/stats I'm seeing on these rejections really make me question if the college application process isn't just crapshoot. I'm very confused and frightened after reading this forum, because amazing (literally amazing) people got rejected, not even deferred. I offer my deepest condolences, and we'll see if the pattern of shocking results continue into the Yale forums. :(</p>
<p>agreed, lolcatz</p>
<p>im disappointed, but not surprised
everything happens for a reason, and this just means that im supposed to be at a different school. looking back, there were definitely parts of my application i would change. im going to try to learn from it and write some awesome applications for my next schools. life goes on.</p>
<p>It's all good. Haha. Quite the slaughter though. It's not even my own rejection that surprises me, but there were quite a few Stanford-board-regulars who I was sure would get in who weren't even deferred.</p>
<p>It's too bad. Like, I am pretty good at going with the flow, but I know quite a few who were really banking on getting in that are devastated.</p>
<p>It could just as easily have been anyone of us. Godspeed, go get into harvard or yale or princeton</p>
<p>What are the guesses for the admit rate? I've got 12-15%, considering the CC rate.</p>
<p>Doesn't all of this make you wonder what it's like to be an admissions officer?</p>
<p>I'm not sure if they would feel this way, but wouldn't you feel tremendous pressure deciding the fates of so many teenagers???</p>
<p>This year seems to be a crazy year in general for admissions though. 2008 is going to be one hell of a year: economic crisis and potentially some of the lowest admittance rates in a while...</p>
<p>I wish all of you the best of luck in your other apps!</p>
<p>From my calculations, I got a low 13% rate, but that may have changed by now. </p>
<p>Wasn't 2006 at 20% or so? </p>
<p>Then again, CC isn't that reliable of a sample since it's not necessarily "random" and the sample size isn't that large.</p>
<p>bubbrubb, you echo my thoughts precisely :)</p>
<p>Each set of decisions gets progressively worse...lol.....Yale......</p>
<p>It's almost disgusting! :P</p>
<p>Very well put, bubbrubb. I didn't really think I had that great of a shot, but I am really shocked to see the kinds of people who got rejected this year.</p>
<p>Although looking at the SCEA thread last year, the trend was kinda the same, but it just feels extra worse when you're actually applying...</p>
<p>hey, i'm a vistor from the MIT and caltech (deferred from it) boards...and I got to say...this stanford forum really blew me away, and now, i'm not so sure about MIT and uchicago anymore...</p>
<p>I got in and cant quite believe it. Admissions are a bizarre thing.</p>
<p>I got deferred, I feel miserable, everything I have done for the past three years of my life has been for stanford.</p>
<p>my heart goes out to you. I know you wanted this as much as anyone else did. All i can say is that deferral is not denial. It sucks now, but you still have a shot.</p>
<p>Yet another visitor from the Yale board here.</p>
<p>I'm really sorry that this happened to you guys; it's kind of weird that Stanford didn't even give some kind of warning. Anyway, congratulations to those who were accepted and good luck to those who were not because you will get into another great school.</p>
<p>And though I'm hoping that this name won't be necessary:
Tune in on Monday for the Bulldog Bloodbath.</p>