<p>740 ten char</p>
<p>Oh right, you told me already >.<</p>
<p>Hey, well that gives me hope :D</p>
<p>You feel like you bombed it? What’s your feeling of “bombing” something?</p>
<p>We may have different guidelines haha</p>
<p>Seriously, admissions people this time of year probably work many more more than 12 hour days. At most schools, applications are reviewed by regional reps first, then by a second reader for comments. Obviously, by the time committee discussions arise, the pile has decreased. Admissions officers are taking applications home and working 18 hour days. (Dad=college counselor) </p>
<p>What I want to know is, at Stanford, how much influence do the Arts departments have in recommending (or not) students for their programs after reviewing arts supplements. My biggest fear is that my arts stuff didn’t get reviewed. I know it arrived, but…The discussion I want: “I know Newtocollege had great but not really great SAT scores, but we need him desperately in our specific art department”</p>
<p>Why have you all been calling admissions, out of curiosity?</p>
<p>Well this was two years ago, I just remember that I didn’t feel very good about it at all. I took two tests in one sitting, and they were my first ever experience with the SATs.</p>
<p>I believe only one person called and then everyone quoted him. Maybe you can give us some insight to the admissions process (other than the basic stuff).</p>
<p>Yeah, I believe I was the only person who called, and then someone else (jdlace?) said that the admissions people didn’t even start reviewing applications yet (that was a few days ago).</p>
<p>So, take everything we say with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>The lady who picked up on my may or may not have been telling the truth.</p>
<p>Isn’t it illegal to work more than 12 hours a day?</p>
<p>Nobody has an influence in on Stanford’s admissions department. In the book “Admissions Matters” a 20 year Stanford adcom said they rejected an athlete, and the coach walked in and asked them why? He told the coach “What part of no do you not understand?” </p>
<p>So, really, no one has an influence on the adcoms.</p>
<p>Oh I was the one that called (well, my GC), and they said they hadn’t started reviewing apps until a few days ago.</p>
<p>CS, where do you work?</p>
<p>Yeah right - I believe the adcom had gall to tell that to a stanford coach, especially if it is one that makes money.</p>
<p>Read to book and you’ll see it for yourself, @texaspg.</p>
<p>I work at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida and another major theme park here in Orlando, Florida. @Rush10.</p>
<p>Do you think the book is worth getting? It’s probably too late in the process to help me out, but it might be an interesting read.</p>
<p>There are always versions of truth and when one writes a book, it is his version of the truth. Of course, you write a book, you are going to make yourself look good for the readers, does not make it the truth.</p>
<p>The books is definitely worth it! I didn’t buy it; I order it from my local library. </p>
<p>There are 2 versions and in the first version, where the 20 year Stanford adcom is an anonymous writer, he divulges the information about the athlete story.</p>
<p>Then, in the second one, he reveals himself as Jon Reider. He’s now a college counselor at a High School in San Francisco.</p>
<p>I really don’t see why he would lie as an anonymous writer. I won’t lie, I only got the book because it was written by a former Stanford adcom.</p>
<p>He also reveals some secrets that go on behind Stanford’s doors.</p>
<p>And, in his last year, a massive verbal fight erupted between two adcoms.</p>
<p>Did he name the coach? </p>
<p>Have you ever seen a writer writing a personal story trashing themselves, anonymous or otherwise?</p>
<p>I can see this guy talking to Bill Walsh at Stanford.</p>
<p>What part of the no do you not understand? </p>
<p>Bill Walsh - Calls chancellor and gets him fired and still recruits the guy he wants. May be thats why he works at a high school now?</p>
<p>No, because the “What part of No do you not understand?” incident happened 2 years ago, in 2009. He left Stanford at the end of the 2010 admissions cycle. So, it was John Harbaugh.</p>
<p>Now he works at a high school. go figure.</p>
<p>He left because of family issues.</p>
<p>It’s not any high school. It’s one of the top high schools in California.</p>
<p>Does anyone know when ppl were informed last year on the date decisions came out?</p>
<p>Sent from my Desire HD using CC App</p>
<p>The Friday before the 15th.</p>
<p>Recruiting students at Stanford university which had 5 of 32 Rhodes scholars named this year, a record vs advising high school kids where they can into college get based on his knowledge of admitting students at Stanford. </p>
<p>I can see that as a clear career choice. </p>
<p>You can believe whatever you want. However, the only power an adcom has is with non-revenue generating sport coaches. Any coach for a high profile sport at Stanford will have his/her pick of any athlete admitted as long as they meet the minimum NCAA academic eligibility.</p>
<p>So, I could be a kid with a 18 on the ACT and a 2.0 GPA and I could get in Stanford if I was recruited to play football?</p>
<p>That is not true at Stanford. Because if the student cannot handle the work at Stanford he will become academically ineligible because his GPA might be too low.</p>
<p>That may be true at a state school, but Stanford? HELL NO!</p>