I honestly don’t expect to be accepted but I guess I’m one of the few rare bois with no date change. We’ll see I suppose.
Maybe the whole thing is a social experiment by a psych major lmao
In my town where just a few students are admitted to Stanford or Harvard each year, a teacher at a private school said her students considered Stanford harder to get in than Harvard.
There’s a rumor that Stanford doesn’t like my school @Dataminer
Stanford’s definitely comparable to the Ivies!
@Dataminer I feel like what Stanford’s looking for can seem a lot more mysterious and varied (not to say Harvard’s process isn’t completely mystifying), and the essays can be a lot harder for some people
There is a poll on Reddit right now and roughly 46% (131 people) are reporting a date change to a random day over the past 2 months. 23% (66 people) are reporting no change. 16% (45) are reporting a change to a date in the past 4 days. 15% (42) are reporting a date to something last year or even before the application was submitted.
I’d guess one of those 15% pools are the accepted kids. If it’s not that then I doubt it has any bearing on admissions. No doubt in my mind that it was caused by something done at Stanford, and the fact that they aren’t being forthright is suspect.
what date changed like where is it?
@FireScarab the ACT/SAT received date.
@WeirdDateChange One commenter said that some people on Reddit have called and been told it was not related to decisions and was just a glitch. This could be them trying to avoid being forthright by making the “computer error” excuse, but there’s also a possibly it truly is just a glitch, in which case they couldn’t be much more honest. However I do feel like they should’ve released a statement or email or something to truly be forthright.
Edit: see comment #780 on page 52 for the comment I’m referring to
@drumminggeek87 @redcloud17 Stanford definitely has the cloud to attract the most talented students these days. I knew a twin kids from BASIS school in California who already finished all high school stuff by 10th grades (AP caliber) and well into college courses for the last two years. They were admitted to Stanford EA. The STEM kids they took are crème de la crème.
Good they admitted there was a glitch and they caused it (un)intentionally. Hope for the best.
@TheBeyonder, did you get accepted by any ivy yesterday? I have a feeling you will get into Stanford
@drumminggeek87 ultimately I think the best bet is that it was just a glitch. Although if it was real there is no way that Stanford would outright say it especially if it was bad enough that it would be impossible to fix during this season. I guess we will figure out in 30min what happened. Even still, I know Stanford and most schools will take people in and out of their class, so I doubt it will be a 1:1 thing where everyone with a certain change got in.
I bet there was a glitch and it was caught and then they were manually changing some dates so the data now looks random. Anyone who works with database before probably understands this easily.
Also, it’s probably not likely the glitch affected the entire applicants pool. Maybe it only happened to a few regions. They could have discovered the glitch half way through.
I’m coming to think that this is random now.
Some people with no change will get in, and some people with some random date will get in.
I honestly don’t think that only a certain type of date change people will get in as there are simply too many in each type.
Just chillax guys
15 minutes and all will be solved. the process is nearly over now. watch some netflix, read a book, we will all be fine x
Also, don’t feel too bad if you are rejected. Stanford does not waitlist as many as other schools do.
7 minutes
yall 7 more minutes. its been a long five months, and its almost over. just relax and lets start refreshing those portals