accepted! in total and complete shock after receiving rejections from ucla, berkeley, mit, northwestern, pomona, and rice. to future applicants, put in your complete effort into your application and sometimes it pays off 
next question⊠will i get a warning letter/rescinded if i get Bâs this semester?
Rejected. Been dreaming about Stanford since I was like 4 years old. Large part of my childhood was around the Stanford campus.
Iâve been rejected by 5 ivies, but this one hurts the most.
Congratulations to everyone who got in
@NothingICanDo, you know, I was just thinking the same thing. I wonder what would happen if I called administration and requested feedback on my application. What do all of you think? Iâm trying to make the most of my rejections by using it as a pivotal point in which I can bounce off of. It would be nice for some general feedback or notices I can keep for future reference.
@nuttyprofessor I seriously doubt they provide feedbacks on applications. Most probably, colleges will say, you were qualified but there werenât enough spots available. But thereâs no harm in trying.
They will say you were qualified but they wanted a certain class makeup. A lot of this is subjective and how strongly the person who read your essays pushed for you. There is an article in Stanford Alumni website on Stanford admission process. Basically, objectively you could have better stats than many who got into Stanford but get denied because others had a certain voice that resonated with or drew in the reviewer or was more likable than impressive. Also, if Stanford already has two Olympic gold medalist swimmers in the applicants pool, an applicant who was ranked number two in CA might not get in. There are many applicants who got denied by supposedly lower ranked schools who got into Stanford. I would say had all applicants spent several hours with the adcom talking and answering questions instead of writing essays, the choices could have been very different. This is not a perfect system, and reviewers have their likes and dislikes. For example, my kid had a very strong application for a particular non-STEM major at UCLA but got waitlisted but got accepted by Berkeley and Stanford. They wonât give you any specific reason for denial. Also, if my kid had put down Comp Sci as his Interest Area, he would not have gotten in.
Rejected at Stanford, Yale , upenn. Accepted at Brown. Wait listed at Harvard and Princeton.
@NothingICanDo, you didnât let anyone down. Get that out of your head right now.
Very few people get into Stanford, even many of the best students out there. Go to your next best option, and blossom there. Stanford would have been nice, sure, but going there is not a requirement for success.
Waitlisted. Now the mission is to get off. I know it seems impossible(hardly anyone has in these last years), but last week I wouldâve been told that anything other than a rejection was impossible.
This is what I want, this is how Iâm gonna get it, and I wonât stop until I achieve it. No one try to tell me otherwise, Iâm just a step away.
@acrowde, will you post an update, even if it didnât go your way?
Financial aid is out now. Just create your SUNet ID using your Stanford ID, then log into your Axess account to view your award letter.
DamnâŠthe aid Stanford gave me wasnât so great compared to other schoolsâŠ
@Nrdsb4 Nor is going Stanford an automatic ticket to success! College is what you make it wherever you goâŠ
To all those who applied and got decisions (good or bad), please post in the results thread to help future applicants.
Congrats to those accepted. To those waitlisted, you still have a chance. Fight on, and try not to think about it. To those rejected, remember that a school does not define you, and that you will be happy no matter where you go to college.
Has everybody gotten their aid? I made my axess account but all I can view is STARS.
does each admitted applicant receive a different and distinct acceptance letter?
No only REA
@hmongsenior17 I can also only view STARS
@NothingICanDo
I feel you. My situation is similar. Just remember â happiness is a choice. This is kind of clichĂ©, I know, but everyone says it for a reason: itâs simply true. Weâre struggling right now and weâre not afraid to admit it, but in a few months it will all be okay. Just study hard and do what you love, and eventually maybe weâll understand why things worked out the way that they did.
@nuttyprofessor
I wanted to do the same thing (ask about what in my application caused them to reject me), but I read a FAQ page from admissions and it said that they wonât be able to answer anyoneâs questions. So there went that idea⊠BUT if youâve read this: https://cathincollege.com/2015/04/08/i-saw-what-stanford-admissions-officers-said-about-me/ then you might be able to one day access your application? I highly doubt that they keep them or would even allow anyone to see them, but you never know. Just stay updated with all the current laws and stuff. Anyway, since the admissions officers wonât actually tell you anything about why your application wasnât accepted, I am just going to do some more research and try to figure it out myself. Best of wishes on the rest of your senior year!
@mer377 For REA, I got the generic acceptance letter in the first package, but then a nice little handwritten note came in the mail a month later or so.
^^^^^ us too
Last year both my REA kid and my RD kid got the personal note on a snail mail letter. It wasnât only REA. Congrats.