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05-04-2008, 07:58 AM
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| I chose Stanford over ....
Now that decisions are in, I would be curious to learn of the other schools in the decision set of those who have elected to attend Stanford.
Conversely, if you did not chose Stanford, where are you going in the fall? | 
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05-04-2008, 09:17 AM
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#2 | | New Member
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| i chose stanford over MIT and berkeley. | |
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05-04-2008, 02:02 PM
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 287
| I chose Stanford over Cal, UCLA, UCDavis, UCSB, CSUF and CSULB...I got in SCEA and didn't feel like applying to the Ivies  | |
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05-04-2008, 03:33 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
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| what's SCEA? | |
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05-04-2008, 05:14 PM
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#5 | | Member
Join Date: May 2007
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| SCEA stands for Single Choice Early Action. Some schools let you submit your application early, usually in November I think although I'm not sure about that date. It is a nice way to find out early if you've been accepted, which helps reduce that senior year stress. If a school lets you apply to other schools' early action programs, then the program is known as simply Early Action and is often referred to by the initials EA. An SCEA school will accept early applications, but students must agree to only apply early that that school, hence the term "Single Choice." Stanford and Yale are examples of SCEA schools.
The advantage to early action applications is that students have the option of whether or not to attend the school, and that decision doesn't have to be made until May. Some schools offer Early Decision, or ED, programs. When students apply under an ED program, if accepted they are locked into attending that school. (There are a very few circumstances under which ED agreements can be broken. Students shouldn't apply ED unless they are sure they want to attend that school and will be able to afford it.) | |
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05-04-2008, 05:21 PM
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| berkeley , ucla, usc, columbia | |
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05-04-2008, 10:31 PM
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#8 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NYC-->Stanford '12
Posts: 40
| I chose Stanford over Pomona, Georgetown, Cornell, CMC, Tufts, Wesleyan, and (possibly Brown). | |
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05-04-2008, 10:58 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 5,098
| im_blue,
People who took the survey were not actual cross-admits. Please read the original study. There's also a nice discussion in the following thread: New "Revealed Preference" Ranking Released
One of them pointed out the east coast bias: Quote: |
They surveyed just 3000 students and only students from a relative handful of "feeder" high schools with large numbers of students getting accepted to the "top" schools. The very nature of the sample, because it over-represents wealthy, northeastern prep and suburban high schools, is going to produce the same-old results. The methodology penalizes schools outside of the northeast, public universities, and any school that is not "old-money".
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05-05-2008, 08:45 AM
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#10 | | Junior Member
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| anyone choose over HYPM? | |
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05-05-2008, 09:12 AM
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#11 | | New Member
Join Date: May 2008
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| Yes, my daughter chose Stanford over Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Brown and a few others. | |
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05-05-2008, 09:14 AM
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#12 | | Junior Member
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| The study is consistent with what admissions offices themselves have found and sometimes report and is consistent with comments on CC. The critics just dont like the results, so they try to kill the messenger. | |
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05-05-2008, 11:44 AM
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#13 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2007 Location: NoVa
Posts: 193
| Duke, UVA, vandy,clemson, georgia tech, jmu, vt | |
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05-05-2008, 12:28 PM
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#14 | | New Member
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| MIT, Harvard, Princeton. | |
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05-05-2008, 03:53 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 7,680
| Agreed with Sam Lee regarding the "revealed preference" rankings--not to mention that's all theoretical; what actually happens is influenced by many other things, like financial aid. | |
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