<p>@tankfrank13. The person on the facebook most likely talked to someone who works in the admissions “office” and definitely not an “officer” and neither are at liberty to disclose the actual release date to anyone…they are all told to use the Dec. 15th date as the “default date” nothing more or nothing less…</p>
<p>…now, you should be expecting an announcement on their website sometime in the very near future before the above “default date” by the admissions director Colleen Lim that they will be releasing the REA decisions and the early applicant statistics on a “different date” most likely Dec. 12…at 3PM Pacific Time. Historically and traditionally they like releasing the decisions on a Friday (the last day of the quarter for Stanford students) going into the weekend…</p>
<p>…having said that…if their “northeast” counterpart were to change their release date to a “later” date they will announce later as well…it’s called one-upmanship…</p>