<p>I’ve looked at the Stanford SCEA decisions threads over the past few years, and it seems that for an unhooked applicant, you are essentially throwing away your early option by applying to Stanford via SCEA. It seems that they reject seemingly flawless applicants right and left. What would you say about this?</p>
<p>This seems like a fair assessment.</p>
<p>I think that everyone needs to keep in mind that CC only represents ~1% of the total number of EA applicants. It was pretty bad last year on these forums, but if I’m not mistaken the 13.9% admit rate was for everyone, not just hooked applicants.</p>
<p>That said, I’m pretty glad that I have a hook.</p>
<p>I’m an unhooked applicant and I’d like to say that just applying to Stanford in general seems to throw away a chance. It’s EA, so I’m not locked into anything, unlike any of the other colleges I was sure about- so why shouldn’t I?</p>
<p>OP, I would say that your assessment is inaccurate, since I know a huge number of successful REA applicants with stellar credentials. It’s a good idea not to attribute too much significance to individual case reports on College Confidential, for at least two reasons: (1) rarely is there a statistically significant and/or meaningful sample available here, given the thousands of people who apply REA each year, and (2) the bs quotient on these forums can be amazingly high. Furthermore, all the most elite colleges reject some seemingly flawless applicants every year, because they all get more of these ultra-high-stat, incredible EC applicants than they can admit every year. And on the forums of each of these colleges, there is so much outrage and shock expressed about those rejections that it gets much more attention than the unsurprising acceptances of many equally amazing applicants.</p>
<p>The one thing that I think is worth noting, however, when deciding whether to use your REA for Stanford is that Stanford doesn’t defer a large number of applicants to the regular round compared to some other REA schools, such as Yale.</p>
<p>Also, realize Dean said they could fill class x3-4 with 4.+ GPA and aced SAT</p>
<p>Unhooked here . . . I applied SCEA, and this thread makes me sad! T_T</p>
<p>I applied last year SCEA, and if I remember the rejection letter said something about having so many qualified applicants that they could fill their class 9x over. So I would say that you have to have something more than “good grades, good extracurriculars, and good scores.”</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/11/11/restrictive-early-action-application-numbers-rise-7-percent/[/url]”>http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/11/11/restrictive-early-action-application-numbers-rise-7-percent/</a></p>
<p>from that article: “the only advantage [of applying SCEA] would be finding out the decision earlier” </p>
<p>Stanford SCEA isn’t the kiss of death any more than Stanford RD</p>
<p>I agree with the others here. Stanford has repeatedly mentioned that if a student applies and gets accepted for the REA round, that same student would also be admitted RD.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I can believe that.
According to our school’s naviance 47% of early applicants to Stanford got in and only 13% got in regular decision. Schools like Amherst we haven’t gotten anyone in in the past 10 years except for 1 kid who applied ED because everyone applies RD and they don’t want to be thought of as a safety school.</p>
<p>On the other hand, perhaps those who apply early are more qualified and could explain better what they loved about Stanford. </p>
<p>Maybe I just want to believe that applying earlier has increased my sliver of a chance >.<</p>