<p>The stanford website says that they will be sending decisions in waves after three, how do you think they will send it? Alphabetically, based on the decision, or based on reception of application? </p>
<p>I'm just wondering when i should check, if its alphabetical i should be in the first wave but i'm not so sure about the other two</p>
<p>Oh, don't give me another thing to worry about! :eek:</p>
<p>The options that would make most sense are sending emails alphabetically, by your Common App number, or by the date that your application file at Stanford was created. These would probably be the easiest ways to send them out based on the way data usually gets stored in an electronic database. I'd assume that all decisions will get emailed within two hours because an application can send one email out really, really quickly.</p>
<p>Let's just hope Stanford doesn't have a UNC-like incident where we all get e-mails saying we got accepted.</p>
<p>Could you imagine that?? I think I'd cry.</p>
<p>wait what???
that happend to UNC???
thats horribleeeeee omggg</p>
<p>It looks like Brown did all the accepteds first, then followed by the deferreds and rejecteds.</p>
<p>Yeah, it happened last year at UNC.</p>
<p>UNC</a> Applicants Told Congratulations E-mails a Mistake :: WRAL.com</p>
<p>ya the brown decision thread is what worried me, if i dont get an email by like six thirty i'll probably be freaking out. Why cant they email over the period of twenty minutes they should have large servers and enough bandwidth</p>
<p>^^ When the google guys graduated, they took the large servers and bandwidth, lol</p>
<p>I doubt they would separate decisions by whether you got accepted or not.</p>
<p>^^yea, i really hope they dont, it just adds to the anxiety</p>
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<p>Can you provide a link to the page on Stanford's website with this information? I doubt that this is true. The only information I have found states:</p>
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Restrictive Early Action Decision Notification</p>
<p>A Message from the Office of Admission</p>
<p>The Office of Undergraduate Admission will mail and email decision letters to applicants who have applied for admission under Stanfords Restrictive Early Action process on Friday, December 14, 2007. Decision letters and emails will be sent beginning at 3pm (Pacific Time) on Friday; emails will be sent over a period of several hours and may not arrive exactly at 3pm. Decisions will not be available anywhere on our website, in person or by phone.
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<p>I'm seriously unimpressed by this email plan - they only got 4000 early apps. Any pint-sized company mailer can send out 4000 emails in a couple of minutes with no trouble. Can't imagine why it should take 'hours' to get a lousy 4000 emails out, from the university at the heart of silicon valley... :(</p>
<p>^ I think that they just want to cover themselves if something goes wrong. It's a good business strategy.</p>
<p>I like that idea</p>
<p>Yea, It's like those forms that say "We'll send you a confirmation email within 24 hours." when it will probably be immediate.</p>
<p>heh yeah
im so nervous! 25 minutes left guys</p>
<p>Stanford uses punched cards - they are looking over the "hanging chads" over a ray of light as we speak...</p>
<p>rr43, I didn't think anything could make me laugh right now, but you did!</p>
<p>5 minutesss.....</p>