<p>Curious as to what everyone's letter said - the personalization seems sincere but I highly doubt that it is mass-personalized if you see what I mean ;)</p>
<p>Well [klagirl], my S’s didn’t say anything Stanford being all broken up about having to reject a legacy, as did S#1’s rejection last year. So, if there is any personalization, it is less so now than before.</p>
<p>March 31, 2009</p>
<p>asdf
Stanford ID: __</p>
<p>Dear asdf,</p>
<p>It is with regret that I write to inform you that we are unable to offer you admission to the freshman class at Stanford University. Please know that this decision does not reflect any deficiency or weakness in your application. To the contrary, we are humbled by your talents and achievements and of all those who applied for admission this year. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, the large number of applicants for a relatively small incoming class means that we must disappoint the vast majority of very well-qualified candidates each year. Our decision is a reflection of that competition for admission and in no way should detract from the very impressive credentials you presented. We appreciate the effort and care that went into your application and I want to assure you that your candidacy received thorough and serious consideration. As a result, we are not able to consider appeals to this decision. To find some answers to the most commonly asked questions about our admission process, click here; I hope these will address any questions you may have about our decision.</p>
<p>I know this is disappointing news to receive and for that reason we will not send a duplicate notification of this decision by mail, unless you request one from us. If you wish to request a copy of this letter by mail, you may do so here, and one will be sent immediately.</p>
<p>asdf, you are a fine student with solid support from your teachers and advisors and I am confident that you will enjoy great success in your undergraduate education. I only wish we had room for everyone with qualities and accomplishments like yours.</p>
<p>With best wishes for an outstanding undergraduate experience,</p>
<p>Richard H. Shaw
Dean of Admission and Financial Aid</p>
<p>haha, same ****</p>
<p>Yah they don’t personalize it I think.</p>
<p>March 31, 2009</p>
<p>Aesop
Stanford ID: 31415926</p>
<p>Dear Aesop,</p>
<p>It is with no regret whatsoever that I write to you in order to inform you that we are unable to offer you admission to the freshman class at Stanford University. In fact, my sole regret is that we didn’t have more applicants of the likes of you, so as myself and the rest of the Admissions Committee would have had the chance of laughing their a**es off more looking and what kind of hopeless idiots could have even dreamt of ever applying to our fine institution. Your application actually managed to rank lower that what the WORST community colleges from Romania, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia have ever received, and it was a real horror for myself and my colleagues to see that such a moron was even able to write our mailing address correctly, leave less complete a full application.</p>
<p>Please know that our decision completely reflects your total lack of ability in ANY field except nose picking and underwater basket weaving, as well as the hoard of defficiencies and weaknesses of your application. We have all been left in awe by your absolute ineptitude and incapacity to do anything right, and one of our veteran members even suffered a heart attack when looking at your grades. We didn’t think it was possible for students to score below 0 on their GPA until now.</p>
<p>WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING??? Your application was singled out as the weakest and most absurd not only of this admissions cycle, but ever since this fine university was founded! Never in our history has such an insult been brought to our institution as the one you solely managed to bring by associating your name with our university and by writing them on the same sheet of paper. The fact was so appalling, that we had to completely burn your application file as soon as it arrived, as to not contaminate those of the other applicants with its sheer stupidity. In fact, after only skimming through your short answers (the ones you just had to CHECK on your application), we even thought about admitting EVERYONE else, as we figured everyone was infinitely qualified in comparison to you.</p>
<p>I know this might be dissapointing news to YOU, but please note that you are yourself an insult to humankind and not only intelligence, but common sense in general. The Dean of our fine institution is still wondering how the heck nature ever managed to spit out such an ill-formed creature. Our entire Science department has started doing research on the way evolution ever managed to screw up this badly, as what you represent is a complete contradiction of Darwin’s theory and the modern notion of Evolutionism, as everyone knows it.</p>
<p>Aesop, you are a monument of stupidity that will never be able to get an own life, I cannot even believe that you managed to reach this age, as your brain seems to lack even the basic ability of coordinating breathing and sight. We here, at Stanford University, are still wondering how you manage to walk and burn energy at the same time, even though the two processes would normally be naturally linked with each other. We are horrified at the thought of people such as you even dreaming of applying here in the future.</p>
<p>With best wishes for an outstanding life feeding on stones and with deep sorrow for the new low humankind has achieved through you,</p>
<p>Richard H. Shaw
Dean of Admission and Financial Aid</p>
<p>P.S.: I truly and sincerely believe people of the likes of you should only apply to Harvard.</p>
<p>^Those Stanford AOs!!! They reused the SCEA rejection letter! Don’t they realize that the comforting effect is drastically reduced when we know what they’re gonna say? </p>
<p>That shows how they’re a bunch of liars. They don’t really mean it when they say they’re sorry. People – especially us Stanford rejectees – we live in a cold cold world.</p>
<p>My rejection letter pretty mcuh said “Lol, ■■■■”</p>
<p>Dear Aesop,</p>
<p>After getting rejecting from Brown (ED Deferred), Yale, Princeton and Stanford and Waitlisted at Penn, your letter was the first thing to get my daughter to laugh. We absolutely loved it!!!</p>
<p>Thanks … for lightening up the mood here!</p>
<p>wow Aesop I got that same letter…</p>
<p>The line I have an issue with is “asdf, you are a fine student with solid support from your teachers and advisors and I am confident that you will enjoy great success in your undergraduate education. I only wish we had room for everyone with qualities and accomplishments like yours.”</p>
<p>Sending that to the kids who just applied on a whim without the grades, or to the students who really DIDN’T have good recs is a lie. What if the person’s greatest qualities & accomplishments were nose picking and what not (in aesop’s words …funny letter by the way. 
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<p>Now that I’ve composed myself…Great letter Aesop!! Thanks.</p>
<p>Aesop, that was truly wonderful - thank you very much. :)</p>
<p>HAHAHHAHAHA…the line about admitting EVERYONE was tooo good!!</p>
<p>oh my gosh. that was the best. haha. i kind of wish i’d gotten a rejection letter JUST. LIKE. THAT. in fact, i think every school should send rejection letters like that, because then people who get rejected can just laugh and not feel tooo bad(: haha.</p>
<p>Lol @ Aesop! </p>
<p>After receiving a trite rejection from stanford, it really helped :)</p>
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<p>Lovehernot, there may be some people out there who actually would take it seriously you know … that would hurt for them. Stanford AO wouldn’t want to be liable for that now, would they?</p>
<p>@aesop
Nailed it.</p>
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<p>How could you apply early to all these schools? I know Stanford does not allow you to apply early to another private school.</p>
<p>@aesop, Brilliant writing.</p>