<p>Hi there! Well, Stanford transfer decisions come out shortly (this Thursday!) for me. It is the only school I applied to-- as it is the only one I have ever dreamed of attending. I was hoping you all would think some good thoughts for me, eh? I need all the help I can get, I’m excited and anscious, but know it will take a miracle to be included in the lucky 1-3%. Thanks.</p>
<p>I am also applying as a transfer student to Stanford and it is my only transfer app, so I ask all of you to pray for me harder than you pray for Azure_blue and also think more positive thoughts for me than them. That way I will assuredly have the best shot at gaining admission of all applicants. :)</p>
<p>I will think positive thoughts for you both.
Brackis, I was ROTFL at you reply :-)</p>
<p>We went to a very nice church service for Mother’s Day yesterday and I am feeling reverent today, so I said a little prayer for each of you. Now, if one gets in and one doesn’t, this will be no reflection on which of you God loves more! :-)</p>
<p>Don’t the admissions officers use their free will agency to decide who will get in and who not? In that case, are you sure that God <em>can</em> intervene on your behalf?</p>
<p>o.O Yeah. God is really going to help you get into college when there’s people out there who are losing their homes and being murdered/killed as we speak. Get a clue.</p>
<p>I hate it when people say things like “God helped me get onto the Dean’s list!” no, if there is a good he is presumably out helping people who actually need it, he is not helping some naive, middle class kid with some meaningless task. Honestly.</p>
<p>You should let Stanford know that you believe the prayers of strangers can change, alter or influence one’s chances of admission to a college.</p>
<p>When I read the title of this thread, I thought, “OMG, what terrible thing has happened to Stanford? Earthquake? Campus violence?”</p>
<p>Sending my positive thoughts to OP and brackis!</p>
<p>Bay please don’t bother praying or thinking positively unless you do so in a manner that favors me over the other people in your thoughts.
Let that be a warning to all; if you don’t pray and think positively for me I will use all my post-rejection energies to pray negatively against you.</p>
<p>Baz, lighten up. Can’t you see humor when you read it? </p>
<p>To brackis and azure – keeping my fingers crossed for you & hoping God, the Gods, Buddha, Zeus and every deity known to man help convince Stanford that you belong there.</p>
<p>My best hope for you both (and any other aspirants) is that next year you will be at a school which gives you the most inspiring and enriching education you can imagine, and then some more! Good luck in your future!</p>
<p>Sorry but God cannot possibly listen to prayers about getting you two into Stanford…he is too busy sorting out all the prayers for the American Idols…
j/k.</p>
<p>^^ and the basketball play-offs!</p>
<p>From what I gather on the transfer students forum, results have been emailed today. Did you get in?</p>
<p>Nope.
I blame it all on the people in this thread not praying hard enough.</p>
<p>:) 
:)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I didn’t either. Thank you all for your help anyways, but it didn’t work out. I’ve had much better days. I’m heart broken really. This is rejection #3. It’s hard to love something so much and it not be reciprocated. I’m just at a loss of where to go from here.</p>
<p>No, it isn’t that God is listening to prayers about American Idols, it is that “he” is too busy sending 7.8 earthquakes and cyclones to kill thousands of people, as well as intervening on both sides of the Iraq war and countless other conflicts. Not to mention deciding who to save in car accidents and who to allow to be cured of cancer. And we haven’t even addressed all of the attention “he” has to pay to the outcome of sporting events. Because as we know God plans everything that happens.</p>
<p>Azure, I think your problem was timing. You needed to have everyone ask God to influence the committee when they were making the decision, not have everyone ask God to magically change the letter once it was in the envelope. :)</p>
<p>Transfer acceptance is really tough, so don’t beat yourself up. My son did transfer applications last year and the acceptances were really random. He got into one highly selective school but NOT into U of Georgia! His girlfriend was a Yale legacy applying to transfer there and didn’t get in to there OR Brown. It’s just really hard, and some of the schools give the slots to URM kids coming from community college who have really shown some good stuff.</p>