<p>I live about 20 min away and I’m there ALL the time. I freaking love that place.</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you! Hope to see some of you this fall</p>
<p>@Handala92; what do you mean by “killer” for out of state kids?</p>
<p>Hello! I am new to all of this and I have been looking everywhere to find something where future grads of the class of 2014 are posting things of DDay for Stanford. </p>
<p>So, has anyone heard of people getting rejection letters yet? I applied Regular Decision and I know I probably won’t hear anything till March 31/April 1…I am so eager to know something so that I can continue with all my college planning.</p>
<p>^ I doubt it. I’m pretty sure they only send <em>acceptance</em> (ie likely) letters earlier than March 31/April 1</p>
<p>its safe to assume most of us will get our decisions around april 1st
hopefully they’ll release them earlier like they did with REA though 
better get our hearts crushed earlier rather than dragging it out</p>
<p>^ Yeah I just really want to know either way. I don’t like not knowing what my future plans are…=0 I like to at least have stuff planned out or a general idea of what’s going to take place. If I don’t go to Stanford I am going to go to the University of Texas at Austin. I got into the College of Communication for Public Relations. It is a great program. I am excited either way!!!</p>
<p>Ready to Grad.</p>
<p>hey is it harder for out of state students to get into stanford then it is for california residents bc I was looking at the breakdown of where the students came from and it showed 40 + percent were from Cali?</p>
<p>18 days now!
if it’s hard for out of state students, then it must be almost impossible for international students :(</p>
<p>Oh? How about rural favoritism? Don’t they want people from under represented places?</p>
<p>I went to “Discover Stanford” and I asked if it would help me being from Texas and they said yes. =D</p>
<p>I would imagine that about half (if not more) of Stanford’s applicant pool is from California because 1) California is the most populous state and 2) people tend to apply to schools close to them. I expect the admit rate for CA students to be lower than for out-of-staters (Stanford seems like a school that would want a geographically diverse student body), but I would bet that the in-state yield is higher. Lots of Californians might choose Stanford over, say, a comparative East coast school because it’s closer to home and the weather is better. </p>
<p>So it’s not necessarily that Stanford likes Californians. It could be that Californians like Stanford.</p>
<p>well then he has plenty of other top schools to choose from lol
nobody can really “expect” to get in HYPS
most qualified candidates just don’t get picked</p>
<p>maybe they didnt get the right feeling from his essays
or maybe they didnt think he had personality</p>
<p>im not saying his essays wernt excellent or that he had no personality, but we can’t predict how they will view his application.</p>
<p>stanford definitely does look for different things than other schools. but you can’t argue with the results they have had. they just have a different methodology in selecting admits.</p>
<p>^ agreed. You don’t know what his essays were like. I’m not sure what drives your cynicism about stanford Handala69 but good stats on paper doesn’t always translate well into a good application. This is what us Freudians would call a rationalization - you trying to make Stanford a stupid school in order to cope with your impending letter. That way if you get rejected you won’t feel as bad. Stanford is a nice place. Stop hatin.</p>
<p>@ Handala92 </p>
<p>You know, there was another thread just like that where this godly amazing girl with even superior stats, international recognition, etc. got rejected from Harvard (accepted everywhere else). And I can give the same argument people in that thread gave.</p>
<p>Have you ever considered the idea that Stanford may not need a 2x Intel Semifinalist, with a 2370, who started a charity organization, who rocked the Olympiads, and had amazing grades? Maybe all of his qualities were no longer in demand due to other applicants in the same class.</p>
<p>From what I hear, Stanford looks for academic curiosity and a passion for knowledge and finding out new things, not just book smarts and the ability to memorize facts from a book.
They try to find those that will succeed by offering a new perspective on things and have a certain “intellectual vitality,” which was one of their essay prompts.</p>
<p>WHen is it???waiting</p>
<p>I believe April 1st. They’ll probably email you when decisions come out.</p>
<p>Hey guys. Even though I will have a 2% of admittance, I want to let any other students who are strongly considering Stanford know that it is truly a LOVELY campus. If you have ever been on it you will know what I mean. There is a mall literally 3 minutes away from the Stanford hospital, lots of palm trees, a big field where lots of people hang out, and of course lovely CA weather!</p>
<p>I agree. Stanford has the most beautiful campus I have seen. However, it does seem to require a bike, but that’s not really a negative. </p>
<p>My only gripe from visiting the campus was that it seemed too nice. It seemed kind of sterile and at one point of the tour we walked by a fountain which had drunk waspy looking kids in it screaming: I TURNED DOWN YALE TO COME HERE! WOOOO!!! I’m sure that the whole campus isn’t a bunch of yuppies, but it definitely seems common. But then again, at that level of prestige, what campus doesn’t have yuppies? I’m sure that if I were accepted, that means I’d find people like me there too. But if I don’t, then maybe it’s a sign I wouldn’t have fit in anyways.</p>