And it may be that you only got an email if you have registered to receive email updates from the admissions office or something like that. It definitely has nothing to do with whether or not you got admitted.
@ComputerAge
No, I am not an international student.
Yes, I have logged into my portal before.
Currently in China on a spring break trip and I’m very nervous about tomorrow morning (time zone difference). Accepted to Boston College, waitedlisted at uchicago, northwestern and Duke, so we’ll see! Good luck to everyone!!
@potterfan You got in early though, so your withdrawal actually gave someone else a spot in the RD round
No one is saying to withdraw applications willy nilly. We’re saying that if you’re already mentally committed to a school, or if you have a handful of acceptances to your top choices, that it is considerate to withdraw from schools you have no intention of pursuing. Your match school is another person’s reach, etc. You’ve earned your acceptances, and you should celebrate them. But don’t forget that there are others that are not as fortunate as you, and that freeing up some space can make or break someone’s entire life. Just sayin’.
That’s fair
good luck everyone! I sincerely hope every one of you can get in!!! Even from these posts I can see how much you’re all passionate about stanford, and how much you all genuinely want to go there!! Although I’m awaiting results as nervously as everyone else, I know that the admissions team has made the best decision they can and that whatever happens doesn’t define us as people 
peace
@mdorbust I completely agree. This whole process has gotten out of control and it’s only getting worse.
I love the system in the UK. Students can only apply to 5 universities, and must pick either Oxford or Cambridge, not both. This completely streamlines the process, creates reasonable acceptance rates, takes tons of pressure off of students, and most importantly allows applicants to focus on FIT. Nowadays, students (I am guilty of this myself) throw out applications into the wind, hoping one will stick somewhere. 10 years ago, schools like UPenn had 40% acceptance rates…just imagine how selective top schools will be 5 years from now.
I predict that this bubble will burst sooner rather than later.
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in the future the most selective schools will have an acceptance rate of 0.00001% :))
5 students out of 390,000 applicants have been accepted this year! Woo
@Grapess that’s pretty much what it feels like now lol
As an aspiring public servant, I hope one day I can help reform this truly wack system.
So did only one person get an email from Stanford?
@mdorbust Personally, I see a lot of flaws in that system. The biggest one is that it limits students. Some (not all) students, especially minorities and students from low income families, will feel the best route to go is to just apply to match and safety schools. They may think, “Oh, I’m probably not going to get in,” or ,“I probably couldn’t afford this school anyway” and with those thoughts they may end up thinking, “What’s the point of applying and wasting one of my 5 applications?” And then, a person who might have actually got in and been awarded a good financial aid package, would never even have a chance. That’s just the way I see it though.
Btw, good luck tomorrow everybody! I feel like I had a low chance of getting in (technically, we all have a low chance, but you know what I mean) but at least I applied and tomorrow I can say whether or not I got in, not having to look back and regret not applying and therefore not knowing due to limitations on schools I can apply to.
Well because the acceptance rates are higher, students need not apply to multiple match/safety schools. Cambridge and Oxford, the most selective schools in the UK, both have acceptance rates around 20%, which means that the rest of the universities are around the 50% mark. Compare that to the U.S., where our most selective schools have less than 5% acceptance rates, and you can see why it’s so chaotic.
@ThatPeprika
Until the CommonApp goes away, I don’t see a solution to this process. I’m not saying the CommonApp is bad (it’s convenient not to have to fill out your name, date of birth, and address for every college), but it allows everyone to apply to colleges with the press of a button.
@mdorbust That may work for some people, which is great, but I know I would feel stressed out. I chose to apply to multiple match and safeties because I liked having choices. Every school offers something different.
For example, say it was the fall and I had to choose between applying to School A and School B, which are both matches or safeties. At that point, I’d have to determine which features I prefer before I even know if I’d even get in one, both, or neither (I’m the type of person who says, “Well, there’s a good chance of me getting in, but I still may not!”). This, I get to apply to both, and eventually I’l know if I get into either, or both, and have to make that decision.
So are decisions coming out tomorrow?
@pisker at 3pm