<p>I haven’t received anything… Shoot</p>
<p>howd it work out for you guys? im too nervous to open my email lol</p>
<p>Any one?</p>
<p>results pl0x :D</p>
<p>open it!</p>
<p>i haven’t gotten mine yet</p>
<p>Check your emails! I’M IN!!!</p>
<p>Nothing here…</p>
<p>congrats!!! @mrbandman14</p>
<p>IM IN, ACCOUNT ACTIVE MEANS ACCEPTED HOORAY!</p>
<p>HOLY COW!!! I STILL HAVEN’T GOTTEN THE EMAIL YET!!! WHAT???</p>
<p>Rejected. Oh well, looks like I’m headed to UPenn next year</p>
<p>Rejected … Carnegie Mellon here I come !!!</p>
<p>:D After seeing five rejections yesterday, I never expected this! Oh my gosh, it’s overwhelming! 
Congrats everyone with Stanford & other awesome college acceptances! We’ll all do great things in this world!</p>
<p>GOT INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! #Stanford2018</p>
<p>Oh my gracious. Go Cardinal! I got in. Checked it right after detention was over</p>
<p>I got in. Congratulations to all who made it. To others, I am sure you already have other exciting offers to choose from. I wish you luck in future endeavors. Thank you @bulldog2017. Your advice and calm words got me through this. Cheers</p>
<p>Any of you guys who were deferred then rejected care to share why you think you were rejected? I honestly have no clue why i was rejected. not trying to be cocky or anything, but I literally put my heart and soul into Stanford. I have fantasized for YEARS about becoming a Stanford student and partaking in its awesomeness. It’s been my dream school for so long, and to be honest, it seems like they kind of just deferred me to give me a glimmer of hope and to keep me dreaming the Stanford dream - which, to be honest, was somewhat tainted for me today. They should’ve just rejected me at the beginning. Yes, you might say that Stanford only defers students who have a REAL chance at getting in RD, and that deferment is meaningful, but (for me at least), the prolonged period of hoping and waiting only makes the rejection all the more painful.</p>
<p>However, to be honest, I’m not as bummed by the rejection as by its execution. The rejection letter was word for word the same as the 2017 and 2016 letters, and that the article Richard Shaw included a link to WAS THE SAME ARTICLE HE USES EVERY YEAR. All he does is change the class year and the number of applicants in the article every year. I have read that same article many times because I’ve seen it linked in CC forums and such, and it pains me to think that Mr. Shaw, the dean of admissions, is just spewing out formulated consolation speeches for us and making it seem GENUINE when it’s really not. In the letter he said something along the lines of “Here’s a link to an article I wrote today.” FALSE. You did not write the article today. You wrote it 3 years ago. If your definition of “writing” an article consists of changing the date and the number of applicants, then yeah, you could say you “wrote” it. But that doesn’t cut it for me.</p>
<p>*Yes, I know it says “amended” March 22, 2014, but still - the rejection letter makes it seem like he wrote the WHOLE article, from scratch, to be published today for the first time. IDK if I’m just being overly sensitive - feel free to correct me with the actual quote from the rejection letter (I don’t want to reread it, haha).</p>
<p>And regarding the actual content of the article itself: I agree with Mr. Shaw’s ideas, but I feel like the article serves more as a way for him to cover his bases and not anger the parents of the rejectees. Like he’s trying to reduce liability somehow by assuring these parents that their kids will still thrive despite having been rejected. In short, the article seems more like it’s for his OWN (and the adcoms) benefit than for the benefit of the STUDENTS (although it could certainly also soothe the parents). But this quote struck me as somewhat wrong, somehow: “but my experience suggests it’s often parents who are more upset about our admission decisions than the kids.” In my case at least, my parents did not care AT ALL about me getting into S. But I cared. I cared so much.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m tired, and I have to go.
Sorry for the rant.</p>
<p>@coolbeans123</p>
<p>I feel ya.</p>
<p>It’s very frustrating, no doubt about it, esp. considering the kind of dedication and passion you possess. My brother is the same way. Deferred then rejected. I guess it’s a little different b/c Stanford became his top school only about a year ago, but it was still head and shoulders above the rest of the colleges on his list, outside maybe Yale.</p>
<p>I had no idea the Dean just regurgitates past letters. What a lazy bum. I have little respect for people like that. How long does it take to craft a new letter? Five minutes? I mean, let’s be real.</p>
<p>Your heart’s in the right place. Judging by the way you sound in your post, I can tell you’re the type of person who is going to succeed big time no matter where he ends up. My brother’s the same way.</p>
<p>@friedokra20 thanks for that comment. I sure hope that I can succeed big time no matter where I end up. I’m thinking about having them send me a hard copy of my rejection letter so that I can frame it, and so that it can be a kind of masochistic source of inspiration. So that I’ll always be reminded that I can always be better. Idk, I guess I’m just weird like that haha.
To be honest, though, even though I got rejected, I’m still utterly in love with Stanford. Does that make me crazy?</p>