<p>Congratulations to all those blessed souls who have been accepted to this wonderful university - Stanford - in Palo Alto! To all those who have been denied admission, I can personally vouch that there is an amazing place for you too! </p>
<p>I, an international student from India, was wait-listed at Stanford. Quite honestly, Stanford was amongst my top choices as it has a rock-solid Sciences. Meanwhile, I was also excepted at Brown and, as of now, I have decided to attend this very institution.</p>
<p>I am presently searching for a person who is working at Stanford, but was educated at Harvard. This person could be anywhere in the hierarchy - administration, academics, athletics et al. I know this might sound absurd but this one person could truly help my cause, that is the wait-list. I am sorry but I cannot shed anymore light into the reasoning behind my juvenile demand.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone for lending a helping hand!</p>
<p>@cardfan: I publicly apologize for the blooper. I was typing the aforementioned words after a day’s hard work and it was 2’o Clock in the night here in India! I am sincerely hoping that I get forgiven for this act of juvenility (hope that’s the right word)!</p>
<p>And no, I have no secret plot to take over the elite American Universities! That would just be a little too farfetched, in my honest opinion.</p>
<p>The former President of the Harvard Club of India and Asia, and the Current President of the All American Universities Alumni Association of India is willing to recommend me to Stanford, through a Harvard Connection (I have worked with him on a project!). But for this to happen, I need to know someone who was educated at Harvard, but is now with Stanford. I did not want to let this out, initially. But, now, I feel that this will help everyone figure out the reason behind my demand!</p>
<p>Thanks for pointing out the error! My sincere apologies!</p>
<p>I really don’t follow your story. If you have someone who will give you a recommendation, it would go from that person directly to the Stanford admissions department. I don’t see why any intermediary is needed. Additionally, Stanford admissions only attaches weight to recommendations from people who are very familiar with an applicant’s accomplishments</p>
<p>Once again, some total stranger working at Stanford is not going to help you get off the wait list.</p>
<p>My recommender says that he needs someone in the functioning hierarchy to understand the exact the working of the wait-list so that he can specifically carve a recommendation for this purpose. He has himself been a teacher to the Stanford study abroad students at Oxford, and hence has a fairly accurate idea of the place. He sees me as a great fit for the Computer Science program at Stanford and simply wants to help me out.</p>
<p>You, my dear friend, are following the practical flow of thought. I understand what you are saying. But try to empathize with me as well. I cannot go straight out and proclaim to my recommender that I could find no one, not even a single soul, with this rare combination. He has himself volunteered to help me out. I hope you get the cause and help me with this.</p>
<p>@GenericName101: Thanks a lot mate! I am looking for people with this combination - Educated at Harvard, Working at Stanford. As stated before, these people could be anywhere in the hierarchy - administration, academics, athletics et al. The moment I get a couple of names, I will hand it over to my recommender. </p>
<p>I had another query. Is there a particular portion of the Stanford website where I can find such information or do I start scanning the entire website?</p>
<p>Try looking at the list of faculty in the academic department you are interested in. When you click on a professor, it says where each prof got his degree and I’m sure you’ll find some who went to Harvard.</p>
<p>harvard17, I think this is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.</p>
<p>Don’t waste your time and hurt your admissions chances further. Also, if anyone from Brown knew that you were doing this, they would LOL at you. It is over-the-top and not going to work.</p>
<p>Getting a letter from a Stanford professor you have worked for is one thing. Googling a professor online and then working that to get you off the waitlist is absured. Your Harvard recommender sounds like he/she doesn’t know what he/she’s doing.</p>
<p>If I were an admission’s counselor, I would reject you for being weird/desperate…</p>
<p>@Booyaksha: I respect what you have to say but please bear with me and understand that this scheme is not my brainchild! It is something that my recommender has in mind. I, in fact, don’t even have an ‘exact’ idea of what he wants to do with this person (What I said above was what I was able to comprehend of his words).</p>
<p>I, at first, did not ask this person to recommend me to the committee. He himself volunteered to come out and genuinely help me in this vital cause. He says that if there is something that he can do to help my cause, he will absolutely love doing it.</p>
<p>I plan to give him a list of individuals with the aforementioned qualifications and convey what all you guys think about it. I just cannot go before him and tell him that I don’t care about him him or his recommendation. I simply love Stanford too much to do this sort of a thing.</p>
<p>This is a waste of your time, and of the time of the random person you find on Stanford website.
If your recommender is determined to write you a letter, just have him write it based on what he knows about you and send to admissions. End of story. That’s probably a waste of time, too, but you will feel like you did something.</p>
<p>Stanford does not accept supplementary materials, recommendations, or ANYTHING else for waitlisted applicants. They only look at the text box on the waitlist website where you send your updates. believe me, they are serious about that.</p>