<p>@stressed: I hope it’s as you say and the competition isn’t as high, arghhhh. Just hope they included us in that competitive list!</p>
<p>I’m thinking it COULD be the latter; after all, a fit isn’t necessarily just a 2400 and a 4.0. And 25 isn’t that many; it’s only about 3% of the original 750.</p>
<p>Dang, now I’m really scared :/</p>
<p>I am aware that a fit is not just a 2400 and a 4.0 gpa. However, from the 6100 applicants what are the chances that this year they couldnt fill the 750 slots. Last year they accepted 755 students from a smaller pool. What are the chances that this year applicants are worse? I am thinking they raised the bar.</p>
<p>Why would they say that they accepted 750 to begin with then? Was that just the go-to number they have for acceptances? Like a norm? Or was that number just last years?
SO MANY QUESTIONS AND ANXIETY IS STILL JUST AS HIGH!</p>
<p>I’m getting more paranoid the longer this wait ensues…every time my phone vibrates, I freak out a little thinking it could possibly be THE email.</p>
<p>In general, nationwide, this class is not as strong as last year’s, as noted in the National Merit cutoffs. Below are the cutoffs, state-by-state, Class of 2012 first:</p>
<p>Alabama 211 Alabama 209
Alaska 212 Alaska 204
Arizona 213 Arizona 212
Arkansas 205 Arkansas 202
California 221 California 220
Colorado 215 Colorado 212
Connecticut 220 Connecticut 218
Delaware 217 Delaware 215
District of Columbia 223 District of Columbia 221
Florida 214 Florida 211
Georgia 218 Georgia 214
Hawaii 216 Hawaii 211
Idaho 211 Idaho 207
Illinois 216 Illinois 213
Indiana 214 Indiana 211
Iowa 210 Iowa 207
Kansas 214 Kansas 212
Kentucky 212 Kentucky 208
Louisiana 209 Louisiana 209
Maine 212 Maine 210
Maryland 221 Maryland 219
Massachusetts 223 Massachusetts 221
Michigan 210 Michigan 207
Minnesota 215 Minnesota 213
Mississippi 205 Mississippi 204
Missouri 213 Missouri 210
Montana 209 Montana 203
Nebraska 209 Nebraska 207
Nevada 209 Nevada 208
New Hampshire 216 New Hampshire 211
New Jersey 223 New Jersey 221
New Mexico 210 New Mexico 208
New York 219 New York 215
North Carolina 217 North Carolina 213
North Dakota 204 North Dakota 200
Ohio 214 Ohio 212
Oklahoma 209 Oklahoma 206
Oregon 216 Oregon 213
Pennsylvania 215 Pennsylvania 214
Rhode Island 213 Rhode Island 211
South Carolina 211 South Carolina 208
South Dakota 206 South Dakota 204
Tennessee 214 Tennessee 210
Texas 219 Texas 216
Utah 208 Utah 205
Vermont 217 Vermont 214
Virginia 220 Virginia 217
Washington 220 Washington 216
West Virginia 204 West Virginia 200
Wisconsin 209 Wisconsin 207
Wyoming 204 Wyoming 200</p>
<p>Observe that the cutoff fell in EVERY state bar Louisiana, where it remained constant. Furthermore, natural variation in applicant pool combined with this could easily make a 25 person difference.</p>
<p>That’s true, but I found out from personal and general observance that PSAT doesn’t truly correlate to SAT score. In fact, most of the people I know got higher SAT scores. </p>
<p>That being said, this class is still likely to be weaker.</p>
<p>I got a much higher SAT score (207->2340, no tutor), so I don’t know how much that correlates. Maybe the pool did get weaker… wouldn’t that be nice? I hope they didn’t raise the bar though. Oh god I can’t handle this. WHY ACCEPT FEWER OF US?</p>
<p>They may have accepted fewer but deferred more.
Hard to tell, but no reason to worry - can’t do anything anyway.</p>
<p>I can feel a mini-heart attack coming on…</p>
<p>They probably deferred more students because they had a record breaking pool of applicants and are therefore expecting an insane amount of students RD. In this way they can keep more spots open for possible outstanding students in the probably record breaking rd round. There are more applicants but the number of slots hasn’t changed.</p>
<p>Gosh, just opened my email I saw “admissions” and my heart leapt. Frickin email from USC :(</p>
<p>Happened to me today with USD^ hahah</p>
<p>In my class of 123 7 kids got into Penn ED today…</p>
<p>7 kids for one school is SO much. Wow.</p>
<p>Can’t get Schrodinger’s cat out of my mind</p>
<p>Thought I’d offer a distraction. I’ve been checking the weather at Stanford for the past week or two and it seems to be raining every other day. What’s up with that? Any of you from the Bay Area wanna let us know how the weather really is there these days?</p>
<p>Listening to “our” playlist and playing Zoo Tycoon… I’m on winter break!! Woohoo!!</p>
<p>@anar - LOL it’s been FREEZING (for California, that means 45-50) here and raining about every other day for the past two weeks or so. Pretty typical December/Jan/Feb. No snow, some rain, decently cold. Still, that makes the foothills around Stanford so lush and green and beautiful 
I rode my horse around there today… so gorgeous this time of year.</p>
<p>Music cures everything :)</p>