<p>Well thats what I meant. Be proud that you even have a chance at Stanford. You’re all amazing nonetheless.</p>
<p>ahhhhhhh… there are ging to be too many rejections in one day 
Does anyone know when precisely “after 3pm” is it going to come? 6? 8? 11? Oh the cruel possibilities!</p>
<p>i hope it’s not like NU… decisions came out yesterday and some people I think still hvn’t gotten an email</p>
<p>I don’t think Californians have a distinct advantage. A large percentage of Stanford students are from California; by the same token, a large percentage of applicants are from California. I doubt that Californians would have a statistically higher acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Once you get into the regions of statistics, anything’s possible :)</p>
<p>I have a printout here that I found somewhere on the Stanford site. For the Class of 2013, there are 675 students from California which is by far the largest number from a single state. The state placing second was Texas with 87. When considering these figures, though, take into account they only reflect those who matriculated. They don’t show how many applied from each state or were accepted from each state. It makes sense that both the largest numbers of applicants and matriculated students would be from California.</p>
<p>I think that’s the correct analysis, applicannot. Private universities have no incentive to give advantages to in-state applicants, nor do they typically even want to. I also think statistics would show that the relative percentage of applicants from California has been declining over the years, as Stanford’s star has been steadily rising across the country and around the globe.</p>
<p>do you have the link to the stats?</p>
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<p>If I recall correctly, something like 40% of the student population is from California. Yet I do not believe that Stanford’s applicant pool is 40% Californian. I can search for the statistic online, if anyone would like me to.</p>
<p>I read it somewhere that Stanford has to have 40% of the students body from CA.</p>
<p>BTW, best luck to all. It sure will be nice to have both kids attending Stanford. </p>
<p>Believe me, it is nice out there.</p>
<p>The printoff I have came from a PDF file which I can’t locate online at the moment, but here are some stats saying 40.1% of the class came from California: [The</a> Undergraduate Program: Stanford University Facts](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/about/facts/undergraduate.html]The”>http://www.stanford.edu/about/facts/undergraduate.html)
Scroll about halfway down the page.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that’s because the applicant pool is mostly Californians.</p>
<p>30 mins left, hope decisions come out exactly at 3</p>
<p>Well, Zenkoan, Stanford does like to keep its Californian population about 40% California. However, even if the applicant pool isn’t 40% Californian, I’d be hard pressed to believe that there is a distinct advantage to being from California. California produces great students and, frankly, there’s a high percentage of students from California all across the country.</p>
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Awww 
Late reply, but thank you! Yes, I have heard great news from several other schools. At the moment, I will go to Wellesley if I get all rejections next week (which would be fine!). I’m really crossing my fingers for Brown, though. We’ll see!
I really appreciate the support. You’re too nice. :o</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone again!!</p>
<p>Just a random question – are decision emails usually sent out all at once?</p>
<p>So that shows that 40.1% of those who opted to matriculate last year were from California. It doesn’t establish that there is any rule to that effect (which I highly doubt), nor that those students received preferential treatment in admission vis a vis students from other states or nations.</p>
<p>Some will probably come out a few seconds* before or after others. They’re presumably sent out by a computer program.</p>
<p>*or hours, depending on the efficiency of the two computers</p>
<p>2blue,</p>
<p>Thank you for confirming that. Yet, it is a bit astounding that Californian students constitute 40.1% of the student population considering the strong competition from the rest of the world. Yale, by contrast, has a 3% representation of students from Connecticut (Source: USNWR 2010).</p>
<p>Okay, because the email address I gave Stanford is one that I check via POP3 through my regular Gmail account… so unless I know exactly when to check, it would be kind of ridiculous to keep hitting the “Check Mail” button. I guess I can just check CC to see when the email went out, huh?</p>