** Official Stanford SCEA Countdown Thread**

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<p>? Post it please! Why wouldn’t it be?</p>

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<p>Wow I can sleep better now…</p>

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<p>[Early</a> Applications Unexpectedly Surge at Some Private Schools - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/2008/11/19/early-applications-unexpectedly-surge-at-some-private-schools.html]Early”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/2008/11/19/early-applications-unexpectedly-surge-at-some-private-schools.html)
thats the link…</p>

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<p>18%, oh wow.</p>

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<p>oh my goodness. lol.</p>

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<p>okay. ive lost all hope. now im just embarrassed for thinking i could possibly get in.</p>

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<p>Oh. My. God.</p>

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<p>ohmygoodness.</p>

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<p>Isn’t it pretty odd that in the midst of the economic ‘downturn’, the number of applicants to an ‘expensive’ school like Stanford has risen rather than fallen? I mean I know stanford is THE BEST, but Palo Alto is syill the most expensive college town…It’s like a conundrum…</p>

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<p>Yeah, but Stanford has one of the best financial aid programs out there. My family figured out that it would be cheaper for me to go there than to a public in-state school… It’s crazy, but true.</p>

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<p>Hmm…Interesting…
So 25 days to go…where else are all you people applying??</p>

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<p>Nowhere as sweet as Stanford, that’s for sure.</p>

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<p>That is most certainly true…</p>

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<p>Yikes, I just got supernervous. I’m really horrible at this waiting thing. It seems like decades ago that I submitted my application…</p>

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<p>5360 SCEA applications?!</p>

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<p>yup…5360 SCEA applicants…up 17-18% from last year…If they admit the same number of students, the admit rate for SCEA is going to come down from something around 16% to less than 14%…
all we can do is hope…and continue filling other college apps…</p>

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<p>5360?! wowwww</p>

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<p>that’s depressing</p>

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<p>So let me get this right. More people are applying because of increased financial aid? My hypothesis was shattered as I thought due to the financial crisis people’s college savings would have depreciated so less applicants. However if you are able to pay the full tuition does that give you a higher chance? Haha the numbers are scary so I am trying to give myself as much hope as possible.</p>

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<p>ysbera,
my hypothesis was exactly the same… Infact our thoughts on this subject are exacly the same…haha…I’m also trying to convince myself of the same higher improbable chance…</p>