<p>Good Luck Everyone!</p>
<p>I think I’m gonna vlog my reaction…</p>
<p>When do the decisons come? And it comes as an email?</p>
<p>It comes out at today 3 p.m. as an email!!! FREAKING OUT!!!</p>
<p>Good luck everyone! The wait is finally over!!! The start of freaking out alskdfjalskdjflasdjf AHHHHHH</p>
<p>Good luck guys!!! =)</p>
<p>Good morning all! Just had the worst night of sleep ever… waking up/drfting in and out of consciousness since like 1AM 
Was planning on waking up at 8:30 but it’s 7:00 and I’m finally giving up trying to get back to sleep. Time to work out and then off to my busy, busy day.</p>
<p>*Just started a new thread: Stanford SCEA REA Early Action FAQs </p>
<p>It’s meant to help current and future early action applicants with questions about the process. I’ve copied-and-pasted the first post below. Please feel free to go over to that thread and add to it if you’re so inclined.*</p>
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<p>Those of us who are awaiting Stanford’s SCEA (a.k.a. REA) early action decisions had a lot of questions, and learned a lot, as we contributed to, read through, and dug up old CC threads. For the benefit of current and future applicants, here’s a list of what we learned. Much of it applies to RD (regular decision) applicants, too.</p>
<p>If anyone wants to add to the list, please copy-and-paste it into your post, adding new items at the bottom.</p>
<p>Good luck all! Hope this helps!</p>
<p>1) Stanford generally says that the decisions will be released on or around December 15, but they are often released before then. Here are the dates and days of the week on which they’ve been released over the past 12 years:
December 14, 2012 (Friday)
December 9, 2011 (Friday)
December 10, 2010 (Friday)
December 9, 2009 (Wednesday)
December 12, 2008 (Friday)
December 14, 2007 (Friday)
December 15, 2006 (Friday)
December 15, 2005 (Thursday)
December 10, 2004 (Friday)
December 10, 2003 (Wednesday)
December 17, 2002 (Tuesday)
December 11, 2001 (Tuesday)</p>
<p>2) If an applicant’s parent is an alum of Stanford, whether of undergatuate or a graduate school, the parent gets in the mail what’s unofficially deemed the legacy letter, a.k.a. the unlikely letter. (The letter essentially says not to get your hopes up; getting admitted to Stanford these days is a lot harder than it used to be.) The letter often gives a release date for the decision that’s earlier than the “official” December 15 date. This year (2012), the letter said that the decisions would be released “after 3 p.m. Pacific Time on December 14” – which this year was accurate. In past years, though, the release date has been not only earlier than the official December 15 date, but also earlier than the date in the legacy letter.</p>
<p>3) In past years, Stanford has announced the actual release date on the day of release, any time between around 2 a.m. PT and noon PT. The announcement has been posted on the undergraduate admissions news page, here: [Admission</a> News : Stanford University](<a href=“Page Not Found : Stanford University”>Page Not Found : Stanford University)</p>
<p>4) This year, the announcement appeared on Stanford’s Twitter feed at about 3 p.m. PT on the day BEFORE decisions were due to be emailed, here: <a href=“http://twitter.com/ApplyStanford[/url]”>http://twitter.com/ApplyStanford</a>
It popped up on Twitter a short while before it popped up on the admissions news page. </p>
<p>5) On the release date, decisions are emailed beginning at 3 p.m. PT. The admissions officers warn that though they begin to send decisions at 3 p.m. PT, it may take several hours before your decision reaches you. If for some reason you don’t get your decision by email, you will have to wait a few days (this year, until December 19) to call or email the admissions office and get your decision.</p>
<p>6) The subject line of the email will say something about Stanford admissions, but you won’t be able to tell from the subject line whether you’ve been accepted, rejected, or deferred.</p>
<p>7) If you are accepted or deferred, you’ll get a second email with a Stanford online I.D. in it. However, that email may come significantly later than the decision email (and in some past years, has actually come BEFORE the decision email). If you see two emails, then, you’ll know you’ve been accepted or deferred. If you see just one, you may have been rejected, but you also may not have gotten your second email yet.</p>
<p>I’m starting to realize how badly I want this now O_O</p>
<p>[Stanford</a> SCEA Decision Countdown Timer](<a href=“Countdown Timer – Time since Dec 14, 2012 3:00 pm started in Palo Alto”>Countdown Timer – Time since Dec 14, 2012 3:00 pm started in Palo Alto)</p>
<p>I’m sitting in bio, supposedly doing final review. In reality I’m being utterly unproductive.</p>
<p>Statistics here! I’ve got a countdown on my laptop</p>
<p>Oh I love this timer! I’ve been so unproductive these days…7 hours more! Good luck!</p>
<p>Learning nothing in Spanish…faaacckk so scared.</p>
<p>I have a scholarship due today (just finished) another 1000w scholarship due Monday, and a 5 minute video about myself + another 1000w essay due on Monday as well… I can’t bring myself to focus… If I get rejected I won’t have the energy to do them, if I get accepted I probably won’t care haha.</p>
<p>Three words to sum up the Stanford journey: torment, distress, anxiety…at least that’s how I feel right now.</p>
<p>AP Physics C final today but can’t focus at all!!!</p>
<p>@daniel - Stanford doesn’t consider felonies committed your freshman year so you should be okay. LOL</p>
<p>I know the ID email sometimes gets to an inbox earlier than the decision email, so does that mean it’s sent earlier (right before) or are they sent at the same time and it just happens to arrive first sometimes?</p>
<p>I would imagine that there’s some kind of a timer between when the acceptance email is sent and the ID email comes. Otherwise you’d know without looking at the email, takes away the excitement.</p>