Who is my regional person?

QuantumArbiter · 11-17-2009, 10:13 PM

I hear like officers are allocated to read applications from certain regions...I live in Santa Clara, California.

Who is minee?

Prussia! · 11-17-2009, 10:22 PM

Here you go!

Contact Your Admission Officer : Stanford University

I have Richard Welsh.

It looks like Chris Kuipers is yours!

teahouse · 11-17-2009, 10:25 PM

isn't san jose in the santa clara county though...?

whoaness · 11-17-2009, 10:28 PM

just out of curiosity.... what is the point of knowing your admission officer... just wondering....

Prussia! · 11-17-2009, 10:32 PM

No idea. I'm Floridian, haha.
I just hit Ctrl+F and put in "Santa Clara," and it came up beside Chris Kuipers.

There's not really any point, that I know of, beyond you having some need to contact them. I just happened to have the page in my browsing history, so I figured I'd post it. It's just a curiosity to know who's reading your stuff, I guess.

teahouse · 11-17-2009, 10:32 PM

wait.. so that regional officer is our main reader? will our application be read by more people? does the regional officer have more say in the final decision or something?

Prussia! · 11-17-2009, 10:51 PM

I'm not sure of all the details, but I have gathered the gist of it.

The regional officer is the one who initially reviews your application. I am not sure if they discard the "blatantly disqualified" in this initial round or not, but I do know that it is the regional officer's job to make the most convincing, compelling case they can to present to the admissions committee for admission. I am not sure if the entire committee reads your full application or if they only hear what your regional officer presents, but I would speculate that they at least read your essays. (Just because I would imagine it difficult to present them accurately without just plain ol' reading them. But hey, what do I know?)
The decision is made by the full committee after reviewing the information presented.

teahouse · 11-17-2009, 11:09 PM

ah, that makes sense. thanks

rather long job for the entire committee!

flyingllama · 11-17-2009, 11:28 PM

hmm

what determines who is my regional person?

i am going to high school in a different state than my permanent address
(i'm temporarily living with my uncle in CA. that's where i'll spend senior year. my permanent address is not in CA though)

Prussia! · 11-17-2009, 11:36 PM

You're welcome Teahouse

Of course, with tens of thousands of applicants, them having a "long job" is probably pretty unavoidable, haha!

Llama- I'm fairly certain whatever address you put on the Common App will be what determines it. So, your permanent residence, I'm guessing.

flyingllama · 11-17-2009, 11:38 PM

true, i doubt they'd determine it using the mailing address i put down

jahncke · 11-18-2009, 01:00 AM

Do you think they have a proportional number of admits per region? That would mean about 60 for each officer.

Starmie · 11-18-2009, 01:18 AM

Over a third of the class of 2013 is from California. That doesn't take into account the difference in yield here, but it definitely shows that, no, the number of admits for each region is not proportional.

JimmyEatWorld711 · 11-18-2009, 09:46 PM

Are you sure about that Starmie? I was always under the impression that admit percentages were similar across all American geographic regions (controlling for income/demographic disparities). Over a third of the class of 2013 is from California, but aren't at least one third of applications submitted by Californians as well?

jony6789 · 11-18-2009, 10:18 PM

I live in VA. My regional person, Karen Ransom, is super cool! I had her for my Stanford tour and she came to visit my school. She was a really nice and funny lady and definitely solidified my choice of Stanford as my first choice school.