<p>Lol, efilsiertaeht.
Wow, so I am learning. No need to become defensive, jellybean. I see - first generation college student. Good luck to you!</p>
<p>Well, this place is really addicting. And even for early acceptees, there are current Stanford students here to advise and answer questions, so it’s quite helpful to stick around.</p>
<p>What’s the trick to those slide puzzles?</p>
<p>e) for me</p>
<p>i go to a highly competitive public school around half an hour away from stanford, so the general consensus is that if you’re applying to privates at all, you apply to stanford - so we (typically) get in 10-12 students a year. as for myself, stanford’s a little too close to home for my taste… but i’m interested in computer science/engineering, and with a focus on that, i didn’t feel quite right leaving stanford off my list of colleges just because it’s too close to home.</p>
<p>A lot of people in my class including me have just learned/acquired Rubik’s Cubes. They really aren’t not that hard to solve. There is a simple beginner’s algorithm that everyone can learn how to do. </p>
<p>The trick is doing the cube fast (>1 minute). With that method, once you get used to it, (1-2 minutes) is average. In order to get super super fast, you have to memorize thousands of algorithms for every case and you have to have lightning fast hands. The world record is like 12 seconds.</p>
<p>for the record, jellybean, you don’t need to justify your acceptance - congratulations is really all anyone should tell you. if that mother’s son is a qualified candidate he’ll get into a great school on his own - with or without a so called “hook.”</p>
<p>a word of advice to all parents, let your kid go through the college process alone, it’s definitely a test of independence and if you’ve raised your kid well there is no doubt your child will rise to the task at hand - whether or not he/she goes to the school you like the most.</p>
<p>D. hehe…yah, deferred by harvard…o well…stanford’s much cooler, anyway! :)</p>
<p>E!</p>
<p>Waiting to see financial aid reports from Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford (if I even get in to any of them) before I matriculate at Yale.</p>
<p>deferred by harvard…</p>
<p>E.) At MIT, but the only reason I didn’t apply to Stanford early was because it was single-choice and both MIT and U of C were not. If I had had to choose a SCEA application among the three I would have had to think for a long while.</p>
<p>Seems like I’m the only B’er. SATII score to be more precise.</p>
<p>E, Yale + living in Cali, and not wanting to go to college here</p>
<p>F, applied early somewhere else (Azusa Pacific University) in order to be eligible for their Trustee’s Scholarship. That, and I definitely wouldn’t have had the essays ready for SCEA.</p>
<p>F) havent taken sat IIs in that time</p>
<p>F) Stanford’s SCEA does not offer a significant advantage. It may actually be more difficult to gain acceptance early than through the regular cycle.</p>
<ol>
<li>stanford rejects people EA instead of deferral (the way harvard/mit does)</li>
<li>not my #1 - too close to home</li>
<li>SINGLE-CHOICE… wanted to apply elsewhere EA</li>
</ol>
<p>D. rejected from Yale!</p>
<p>C) Deferred. I’m actually kinda happy about it since I thought I’d be rejected.</p>
<p>(A) and (B).
I was too lazy, then UC apps time came, then I had some health problems…
besides, my sat IIs got a bit of a boost.</p>
<p>so, more time to do essays…
…and more time to finish up my website (contains my programming portfolio)</p>
<p>C…those bastards. sigh…</p>
<p>E) Did Harvard EA + was accepted</p>