<p>Is there some strategy at work here - holding off a report on the number of applications until the admit letters are sent by Stanford and other colleges?</p>
<p>They pulled this last year, too, and were the only college in the top 50 to keep the admit total secret until April.</p>
<p>I think its because they're too busy making all the decisions that they save that information until april. Plus, Stanford was even a little late informing their RD applicants that they had received their application...so I think its just because Stanford is just dealing with admitting people right now.</p>
<p>they're just cool like that, and don't go crowing their stats from the rooftops :)</p>
<p>stop posting duplicate threads, byerly :D (you did this before, a few weeks ago, with an "I find it odd that Stanford hasn't released admissions stats" thread)</p>
<p>lol, byerly, stanford is not harvard please take care to remember that</p>
<p>also</p>
<p>stanford can do as it likes so long as i am admitted</p>
<p>in other words, if I'm admitted I wont really care about when they release the numbers</p>
<p>sempitern555: And if you get rejected, the late release will be a benefit! You can just tell everyone, "Bah, I wouldn't want to go to an institution that releases stats later than everyone else."</p>
<p>Not many informed people on CC - particularly at the Stanford site. I guess one has to look elsewhere to find people with good information.</p>
<p><em>shrugs</em> feel free</p>
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I think its because they're too busy making all the decisions that they save that information until april. Plus, Stanford was even a little late informing their RD applicants that they had received their application...so I think its just because Stanford is just dealing with admitting people right now.
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That is completely nonsensical.. they've CERTAINLY tallied their applicants already, and posting a press release takes very little time. I don't by the "too busy" explanation.</p>
<p>As for the strategy behind it? Not a clue.</p>
<p>There are many schools that proudly boast about the record number of applicants they had to reject, but Stanford isn't one of them.</p>
<p>BUT SEE: <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/2004/admission-0112.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/2004/admission-0112.html</a></p>
<p>In fact, RD apps haven't grown at all at Stanford in the last five years.</p>
<p>Who cares, Byerly? Stanford is so much chiller than Harvard and everyone knows it. I would shoot myself in the foot if I chose Harvard over Stanford (or Duke for that matter) just because of admissions differences (or for any reason at all, lol). Not every school has to or would want to behave the same way as Harvard, for good reason.</p>
<p>Stanford is a fine school, and I don't know what your odd need to compare it educationally to other schools has to do with the topic at hand. It just makes you look defensive.</p>
<p>Good school or not, one wonders why Stanford is so secretive about admissions data at this stage. </p>
<p>There doesn't seem to be any reason I can think of why they should be, unless, for some reason, they wanted to extend the closing date to solicit more applications or to allow people to finish incomplete applications.</p>
<p>Such a motive could make sense if there is a concern about lagging RD app numbers in recent years.</p>
<p>Here are 5-year numbers, with 2009 estimated:</p>
<p>2009: 4,330 EA ------ est. 15,770 RD -- est 20,100 total apps
2008: 4,175 EA est -- est. 14,997 RD ------ 19,172 total apps
2007: 2391 ED ------------ 16,208 RD ------ 18,599 total apps
2006: 2,181 ED ----------- 16,871 RD ------ 19,052 total apps
2005: 2,087 ED ----------- 16,276 RD ------ 18,362 total apps</p>
<p>[information for prior years taken from Stanford's CDS forms]</p>