<p>reading this forum makes me have trouble breathing. literally, it’s a struggle. am i obsessing a little too much? most definitely</p>
<p>Marry the night? What context is this in?</p>
<p>@StanfordCS, jeez, chill OUT! They do not call about EVERYONE. They call to clarfiy something. As I said above, they are looking for reasons to ADMIT you, not reject you by clarification. As I also said, if they don’t have questions, it does not mean you were rejected; it means your app was clear to them. RELAX. Getting caught up in minutia is not going to make you or anyone else feel better. Drive yourself crazy if you want, but don’t be dumb.</p>
<p>I may die of a heart attack before Friday, and if I do, it was great meeting all of you.</p>
<p>I might die of a heart attack ON friday</p>
<p>100 pages!!!</p>
<p>It’s a Lady Gaga song, the music video just came out a day or two ago.</p>
<p>Marry the night? Step out your front door, make sure the sun has set and the sky is pitch black, and shout at the top of the lungs, “WILL YOU MARRY ME?”</p>
<p>I think I’ll pay my GC a visit, but I won’t prompt her about whether Stanford contacted me, I’ll just see if she mentions anything…</p>
<p>I thought of something. Could Stanford be contacting GC’s because they are randomly auditing students? They could ask for your first quarter grades to see if you told the truth about your courses in progress. Because why would Stanford tell your GC where you stand in the admissions process, because when they say “for a committee meeting” it kind of gives it away? Don’t they keep it under-wraps until they release decisions?</p>
<p>Because Stanny has randomly audited applicants ever since the Adam Wheeler incident.</p>
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<p>@theoloo55:</p>
<p>I mean an auto-request in the sense of, as soon as you are accepted by your regional rep and forwarded to committee, the regional rep requests your quarter grades to accompany your app in the committee room. Having no idea how many apps a regional rep has to sift through, or what percentage they forward on to committee, I don’t know which applicants they email GCs about. For all we know they could request them for EACH applicant that was forwarded to committee, because there could be only a small number from each region that are sent. </p>
<p>The only thing we know FOR SURE at this point is that those applicants whose GCs were contacted by regional reps are being considered by committee. And that’s a big deal.</p>
<p>^wouldn’t that mean the rest of us are boned?</p>
<p>My Dad is pretty much refusing to talk to me about this now, but he said the grade requests are usually to confirm an upward trend and nothing more. If your grades have been consistent, they wouldn’t need to be requested. To sort of quote him, adcoms have no desire to create more work for themselves by randomly requesting grades for an otherwise-steady student. He also said something along the lines of, if you paranoid, stressed out kids were his, he’d verbally slap you upside the head. There’s nothing you can do about any of this. “Talk about the weather”</p>
<p>Your dad must be my counselor.</p>
<p>Your dad sounds like a very reasonable man (no sarcasm intended). And in response to StanfordCS, I highly doubt it. I think they would audit AP tests, and extracurriculars. I highly doubt anyone would lie about taking certain courses.</p>
<p>Thanks, NewtoCollege. You calmed my nerves :p</p>
<p>Also, I may be paranoid (am being paranoid), but someone from my school was admitted through Questbridge. Would that at all affect my chances with quotas and what not?</p>
<p>Well, they cannot audit AP tests until you’ve been admitted and you submit the AP score report so they can award you credit.</p>
<p>I would be much calmer if I knew that my counselor had or had not been asked for quarter grades. But my counselor decided to leave town and leave me hanging.</p>
<p>I submitted my 10 AP scores anyway, just so they wouldn’t have any doubts.</p>
<p>What would you guys estimate your chances at?</p>
<p>-10%.</p>
<p>10char.</p>
<p>What’s questbridge?</p>
<p>Questbridge helps students who come from low socioeconomic backgrounds, get into top schools like Stanford, Princeton, MIT etc… They have a match program where you can submit an application and Questbridge will review it and if you are matched they will forward your app to the University you were matched to. I believe Questbridge was started by Stanford students.</p>