<p>I continue to dread 
I’ll have to bring in a stressball or something to school on tuesday</p>
<p>I just realized we might have snow on tuesday.
…I will positively die of anticipation if I don’t even have school to distract me from the wait…yepp monday-tuesday are probably going to be the longest 2 days of our lives.</p>
<p>Yea. School on Tuesday is going to be rough. I’m just going to try not to look at the clock because I know those hands are going to be moving soooo slowly…
It’s weird now though, because the person I’ve been commiserating with at school was a Stanford REA and he didn’t get in :(</p>
<p>ok I just looked at the stanford thread now and its brutal HOLY CRAP. so many people with 2350+ got flat out REJECTED (and their ecs were strong too!)
i feel like upenn has lower standards
but even yale doesnt seem to be as harsh as stanford this year :/</p>
<p>Definitely. The Stanford board makes Columbia look tame. There really doesn’t even seem to be much of a trend in it either. It seems like once you’re above a certain threshold, it’s up in the air. There were so many strong CCers there.
I really hope Yale isn’t like that…</p>
<p>How did you guys feel Wharton was on selectivity? I know its supposedly up there with Harvard and Princeton for finance…is it as selective?</p>
<p>Even Wharton, the number 1 business school (I think), was random in their selections. I dunno, I guess we’ll never know the secrets of college admissions.</p>
<p>seems to me like upenn was less selective than columbia, which was less selective than stanford. hopefully yale is not at the end of that series :/</p>
<p>Well in our favor, like someone else said, Yale was the only Ivy to see a decrease in EA applicants this year.</p>
<p>^ I am so happy about this !!! I also can’t believe Stanford rejected so many 2350 +, it just makes me even more nervous with my low 2240.</p>
<p>Ah, Stanford does that every single year. Arbitrary defines admissions at that strange college. I am almost certain the that this is how the ivies will go in terms of seletivity in the early round:</p>
<p>Penn<Columbia<Yale<Stanford</p>
<p>Maybe all the people accepted to Stanford are out celebrating the night away and losing track of time, so they haven’t posted their decisions yet on CC. At least that’s what I’m hoping because there is just toooooooooooo much red on that thread</p>
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<p>Hahahaha this sounds like a good explanation!</p>
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<p>Why? If anything, it should show you that scores hardly matter. I recall seeing someone who got accepted to Stanford, in that awful thread, with like a 2240.</p>
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<p>Haha, I agree with you. Scores arent a huge factor with Stanford. In fact, I would argue very little is “huge” to Stanford because they are so strange in their admissions. The only thing I have found that does matter to them is legacy and/or minority status. </p>
<p>However, no one can seriously assert that scores “hardly matter” for the Ivy League. Go back and look at last year’s SCEA results thread. How many applicants that were white or asian got in with less than a 2300? I’ll tell you now that number is in the low single-digits. All I remember seeing was one applicant with like a 2260 that won Siemens or Intel get in. So ya, scores are second only to one’s transcipt at Yale in my humble opinion = D.</p>
<p>Yale, I want you bad!!!</p>
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<p>I don’t really agree with you. I just think that the CC population is very skewed in a number of ways.</p>
<p>Seriously, someone with, say, a 2260 could have section scores of 750, 750, 760, while someone with, say, a 2320 could have section scores of 770, 770, 780, which isn’t that much of an increase. It isn’t justifiable that that difference in scores (which is often the result of 1-2 errors per section) should mean that one applicant would be admitted over another. I think that, in a lot of ways, the application is regarded as a whole, and it’s silly to place all of this emphasis on scores, regardless.</p>
<p>As well, when the College Board announces scores to students, it always provides ranges (for example, if you score a 750, the range would be something like 730-780, or something like that, I’m too lazy to look up exact ranges). This means that if the student were to retake the test, he or she would likely score somewhere within the provided range. Admissions officers have to be well aware of this. They can’t just judge an applicant because he/she got a particular score on a particular weekend. </p>
<p>I don’t know, I think there are lots of issues with all of the attention that standardized tests get…</p>
<p>3 days!!!</p>
<p>Yale cares more about traditionally qualified applicants early than Stanford does.</p>
<p>how much does your “intended major” factor into the decision?</p>