<p>Wow. Seeing that just made everything seem more real and serious to me for some reason. I seriously hope everyone who gets an offer of admission know how fortunate and blessed they are.</p>
<p>does this mean they will let us know early?!?</p>
<p>Never posted in this discussion before, but I guess it’s never too late 
International Student here!!</p>
<p>^ Argh. Did they really have to post this website up so soon…?</p>
<p>(And to JuiceboxEnjoyer’s post way up there: I don’t know where the product realization lab is, but I think I remember how to get to Thai food from the main Quad XDD why do you want to know?)</p>
<p>everyone needs to chill, just don’t do anything. i’d really lose my mind if i got my Stanford life all planned out and got rejected, so am not planning.</p>
<p>it’s just a trek i’m likely to make a lot if I end up on the farm. And I asked it to test StanfordCS’s scary claim of having memorized the campus as much as anything.</p>
<p>I literally just got a stomachache watching the video/link. Maybe it was the mashed potatoes.</p>
<p>@winnie, welcome to thre thread! :cheers:</p>
<p>One one hand, it’s great to have something to work towards (acceptance letter), but on the other, it’s important to not raise your hopes up - especially with a school with a single digit admit rate. I guess I’m a skeptic, but that’s just how I feel.</p>
<p>Edit: This reminds me of the newest episode of Modern Family. Check it out on Hulu!</p>
<p>We’re over 100 pages behind last years thread</p>
<p>Better start spamming!</p>
<p>Rush10, I LOVE Modern Family! It’s absolutely hilarious. Do you or anyone else watch The Big Bang Theory?</p>
<p>It sounds really familiar, but I don’t think so 
I just found out a site that streams Heroes for free, so I spent like four hours watching that today haha</p>
<p>On a side note, what are your safeties? I was going to apply to UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis, and UCSB, but my parents only want me to apply to UCB, UCLA, and UCI. If I don’t get into any colleges, I will be SO SCREWED.</p>
<p>Haha thanks!
^ I watched one or two episodes of Big Bang Theory before-- it’s so nerdily awesome. But I could sing its opening song before I ever saw the actual series XD (Rush10 you should look the song up, the lyrics are amazing)
Never watched Modern Family though!</p>
<p>I don’t really have safeties. Frankly, if I don’t get into Stanford, Princeton, MIT, UCB or UCLA I’m probably going to stay in my country :/</p>
<p>You know what really would be cruel, if in the book they sent, they made you look through it and you fell in love. Then, on the last page it said “You’ve been rejected”. That would be so heartless.</p>
<p>I find that if I start thinking about Stanford too much it gets overwhelming, so I have created a list of things to occupy my time and mind with. The top three things are: baking (I just made the best pies for Thanksgiving!), work-out (I go to the gym and find that the combination of music and exercising calms me down and helps me to focus), and I’ve been working on my applications for my other schools.
While I would be a hypocrite to tell you guys to stop obsessing over Stanford so much, I truly think it would be beneficial to stop yourself from thinking about it 24/7. The application process is a crapshoot and we have no idea who is going to be accepted. It is only going to hurt more if a rejection letter comes and you’ve already planned your entire freshman year. Something I have begun doing to keep my hopes and expectations down is to recite the first line of the rejection letter every time I start to think about Stanford and getting in:
Dear _____,
It is with regret that I write to inform you that we are unable to offer you admission to the freshman class at Stanford University.
It may sound crazy, but it really does help me stay grounded. It’s kind of like those people who snap a rubber band on their wrist every time they do something they shouldn’t
Sorry for such a long post, I try and stay away from this site as much as possible, but I thought that I might be able to help a few people. So, what do you guys do to keep your mind off of the decision?</p>
<p>^I just think about it more. There’s no hope for me</p>
<p>i agree with you nerdyjock. i try so hard not to think about it-- although i’m hesitant to visualize rejection (you know all those hokey visualization tricks where supposedly what you visualize comes true? i’m paranoid.)
usually, what i tell myself if i start thinking about getting in is that first, that chances are i won’t get in, and second, that even if i don’t get into stanford, i am still an intelligent person and if i work hard enough, i can get wherever i want to go in life. and then i think about different paths i could take, and envisioning different things i could do. usually that works.</p>
<p>I just think about it like jdlace. I am going to be so depressed if I get rejected.</p>
<p>Yeah, there is no hope for me to stop thinking about Stanford. And, the book they sent is just so cruel. If they send you a book filled with information about Stanford’s beautiful campus, beautiful students, beautiful faculty, then it’s near damn-right impossible to stop envisioning yourself in that society.</p>
<p>amaninakupenda that is exactly the mindset that I have tried to maintain. We are all awesome and no matter where we go we will go far in life and do incredible things. Now what I’m about to share is pretty personal and lengthy, so skip to the next post if you don’t feel like reading…
I know exactly what it is like to be rejected by Stanford after obsessing over it for months and months on end. I was recruited by one of the sports programs. At the end of August the coach informed me that I was their number 7 recruit and that they were only taking 6 for my class. She then went on to tell me that they made an offer to the player “ahead” of me and that she has 1 month to decided to accept or decline the offer. So, for over a month I was totally enthralled in Stanford, not only was every waking thought centered on the school and the team, I dreamt about it, I pictured myself on the team, I watched the classes on YouTube, and I would not let myself consider going to another school. When I finally got the call (mind you, I had a full blown panic attack that day because of the anxiety) I broke. I consider myself an extremely strong person in terms of mental strength, but this was a blow I couldn’t handle. I didn’t eat, sleep, drink, or talk for about 2 days. I was so far beyond distraught, and I felt this icy coldness inside of me- I had lost all of my motivation. After 2 days I told myself to get over it and I begin the slow process of realizing that my dream just wan’t going to come true. God was it hard, the hardest thing I have ever done, but it is worth it. My point being that I know the exact position you guys are in, the only difference is I have experienced the aftermath of letting Stanford rule my life. The truth is the vast majority of us are going to be rejected, and I don’t want people to have to go through what I did. You can take control and force Stanford out of your head- you just have to be willing. For your own sanity, please try to find something you love to keep your mind busy for the next 20 or so days.
Think about it like this: if you prepare yourself for rejection you will not be quite as disappointed if it comes, and if you are one of the lucky ones who receives an acceptance letter then you will be even happier because it wasn’t expected.</p>
<p>@nerdyjock: I’m completely with you :), we shouldn’t obsess over it. Enjoy the anxiety and thrill and if it doesn’t happen which mind-you has the probability 0.87, just move on 'coz I’m sure if you were good enough to even apply to Stanford you’ll be welcome to a million other universities. Besides, it’s not the last time you’re applying to university: a Stanford Graduate degree just might be waiting…</p>
<p>On the other hand, does anyone know what the Stanford Class of 2015 Acceptance Letter looked like? xP Kinda curious now that someone posted how the rejection starts out. I tried googling, but could only find one from way back in 2000.</p>
<p>BEST OF LUCK PEOPLE :D! The 750 people who get in are definitely not lucky but really deserve it. And for the rest of us…there’s another 50 odd SPECTACULAR universities out there. :)</p>
<p>Wait, to the post about the Big Bang Theory a couple pages ago…“It only figures that I love comedy TV - I may or may not have watched multiple episodes of The Big Bang Theory already today.” < direct quote from my roommate essay.</p>