<p>holy ****, knowing that they might be finished just made me a lot more anxious for some reason. and now I have finals next week, great.</p>
<p>Let’s try to figure this out. From a previous post, we know that Stanford has an extremely large admissions office compared to other schools.</p>
<p>The essays are:
- 500 word common app
- 750 word supplements
- Short answers (estimate 150 words)
- Extracurricular supplement (Estimate 100 words)</p>
<p>So 1,500 words give or take a few hundred. That’s maybe 3 pages double spaced. To read this would take five minutes? And then there’s all of the activities, honors, classes to read through, so to err on the side of caution I think we can estimate 15 minutes per read. And from what I understand, based on when they visited my high school, one or two adcoms review each application, and then it must pass get approved by the rest of the committee.</p>
<p>Crap double post.</p>
<p>You know they also have committee discussions. And, on average, they spend at least 30 minutes per application. I read that in a book written by someone who worked in Stanford’s Admissions Office for 20 years.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Admission-Matters-Students-Parents-Getting/dp/0470481218[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Admission-Matters-Students-Parents-Getting/dp/0470481218</a></p>
<p>That is a link to the book.</p>
<p>…and I hear the adcoms have a 12 hour day.</p>
<p>Where does that put us?</p>
<p>24 applications per adcom.</p>
<p>That means they have 224 adcoms, which is impossible.</p>
<p>…and all we know is that they have a large group of adcoms, but who knows how many…</p>
<p>maybe they have 10 adcoms, maybe 200…</p>
<p>No, because Harvard has about 37 adcoms, which was stated in the book because one of the co-authors is friends with a Harvard adcom. So, you really think Stanford has 224?</p>
<p>Nobody has above 50 adcoms.</p>
<p>So since you said they work 12 hour shifts then that is 24 applications per adcom. Then, since they magically finished reviewing applications in 3 days that would mean they would have to have 224 adcoms. Which puts us at 5880 applications. </p>
<p>No university has 224 adcoms.</p>
<p>There’s 25 regional admissions officers. I feel like there are more “behind the scenes” though.</p>
<p>[Contact</a> Your Admission Officer : Stanford University](<a href=“Page Not Found : Stanford University”>Admission Staff : Stanford University)</p>
<p>Does anyone know what those students working part time in the admissions office do? Do they just handle phone calls and paper work, or do they actually help in the admissions process?</p>
<p>Sorry to jump into your conversation. I’m new to this forum but I strongly think that Stanford hasn’t made its final decisions yet. They just want people to stop contacting them</p>
<p>That’s what I think as well. @eveshar.</p>
<p>@Rush10, They answer the phone. They don’t help with the admissions process, because they could easily divulge information, when adcoms have attempted to keep it hush-hush.</p>
<p>Yeah, perhaps they just want people to stop bothering them. Very feasible.</p>
<p>Like I said, anything is possible (except for 224 adcoms :D)</p>
<p>I’m just going to wait. I hope it comes ASAP (as in the 9th)</p>
<p>I hope it comes ASAP as well, the faster I get rejected, the better it is for my mental state. HAHAHA.</p>
<p>I almost want to become an admissions officer so I can see the order behind this madness.</p>
<p>Hahahaha, lol. It could be a pretty cool job.</p>
<p>I have to admit, I’m fascinated by the admissions process as well, but if the pay is crappy, then screw that.</p>
<p>I’d work for a day or three, and then after I find out how it works, bye! I’m branching out and charging $20,000 per applicant… <em>evil laughter</em></p>
<p>LOL. I’d do illegal work. I’d find the students’ contact information, then contact them and force them to pay me, then I will admit them.</p>
<p>$15,000 per applicant.</p>
<p>You would probably have to sign some nondisclosure agreement for XX amount of years. If the committee discussion needed a simple majority to admit students, imagine the pressure that would be placed on you if you were that swing vote… Your decision could completely change (kind of) someone’s life!</p>
<p>If they are rejecting 80%, it is not that hard to prescreen and throw out 50% upfront.</p>
<p>@StanfordCS: Well, you didn’t make me pay 15,000 lmao</p>