<p>It will be very irresponsible of Stanford to not come out on April 1st as stated on its website.
It is becoming a joke that Stanford cannot predict in a robust manner its date of announcements of its admission acceptances causing chaos among the students.</p>
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<p>The point was that no one has tried to play gimmicks to find out Ivies results. Everyone knows that if those institute says March 31st at 5 p.m. EST, then that is it. Not before and not after.</p>
<p>Why cann’t Stanford follows something like that? Tell a time and date well in advance and then stick to it.</p>
<p>It is like saying that I’ll finish this job of making the decision but I cann’t predict successfully when I’ll be done with it. I think it is very bad management if they just cann’t control the date of the announcement of results.</p>
<p>stanford likes to be different. of course they have full control over their release day, but they like surprising their applicants for better or worse. and… besides the ivies, very few top colleges come out the day they are supposed to. they all try to come out slightly early.</p>
<p>Duke, JHU, MIT all comes out at the time and date announced on their websites.</p>
<p>Huh? JHU said they’d announce by April 1 but that it could be earlier. They even had a “guess the release date” poll on their admissions blog. They finally announced the imminent release a few hours before the actual mailing on Friday.</p>
<p>MIT’s official timeline was for a nebulous “mid-to-late March” announcement. They finally announced the actual date about 4 days ahead of time. In the interim they absolutely did have kids looking for clues to admission. See <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/667519-possible-sign-admission-their-website-check-out.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/667519-possible-sign-admission-their-website-check-out.html</a>.</p>
<p>Stanford is not that unusual. They set an outside date that they must meet, but it could well be earlier. If impatient applicants go nuts trying to guess the time and results that’s not really their problem. It’s definitely not irresponsible.</p>
<p>But April 1st is 2 days from now and they should have updated the website with a final date and time.</p>
<p>I do consider this as a irresponsible thing.
I attended a Leadership conference during the Junior year and it was told clearly that great leaders are those who can predict the future completion of any tasks accurately. Bad leaders gives out a worst date and then surprise everyone by coming out earlier.</p>
<p>OK, I agree. Stanford should hold off on releasing their results until April 1 because your seminar speaker said that to do otherwise would make them poor leaders. Did your seminar leader talk about how to deal with a situation where you are obligated to publicly set a date before you even know the size of the task (number of applicants) - and thus you must, by definition, announce the worst case? Did he also discuss the standard error inherent in such tasks and that being off by 2% in an approximately 90 day cycle may actually be considered on time? Lastly, did he discuss the implication of such error. Being early can be very bad in some business processes (e.g. inventory buildup) while it can be positive in others (provides more time for analysis and decision-making). One size fits all pronouncements are generally not very useful.</p>
<p>Admission Decision Update
March 17, 2009</p>
<p>We expect that admission decisions will be emailed after 5pm (Pacific Time) on April 1. Decisions for applicants who have applied for freshman admission will be emailed. Decisions will not be available on any Stanford Web site, nor will they be released over the phone. Students who do not receive their decision by email, may call the Office of Undergraduate Admission only after April 6 to get their decision over the phone. Decisions are only provided to students and not to parents or any other relatives.</p>
<p>Transfer admission decisions will be sent by email on May 15 after 5pm (Pacific Time).</p>
<p>Thanks Deetz: That is what My intention were. Stanford should respect this update and come out on April 1st.</p>
<p>Padre13 : Your reasoning is flawed. The accuracy in prediction does indicate the level of skills you have in that line of work. No one asked for a date in October or in January. Once they updated the status on March 17th they should stick to it.</p>
<p>Please don’t join my company once I start it as I would like my managers to predict with in a reasonable accuracy the time line for the tasks at hand. That is what I think good managers are for.</p>
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Get used to it. Graduate and professional schools certainly don’t release decisions on a set schedule. </p>
<p>Stanford’s yield for 2012 was ~70%. “Joke” and “chaos” aside, plenty of admitted students don’t mind attending. ;)</p>
<p>Patience is a virtue!</p>
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<p>Because beggers are not chooser. Since top schools know that there are too many qualified students for these few spots they are trying to take everyone for a ride.</p>
<p>But what is wrong is wrong. Just because too many students are ready to join doesn’t make it right.</p>
<p>indianInLA, I have managed multi-million dollar organizations. If I can’t be part of an 18 year-old’s I guess I’ll get over it. Frankly, you come across as a cocky kid that went to an academic seminar and now wants to lecture the world. Once you’ve actually proven something perhaps you might have a little credibility doing that. Stanford knows its audience wants, and will benefit from getting, the results as quickly as possible. Unlike a business, however, where you can update senior management on status and adjust, if necessary, this is a single commmitment to a widely distributed audience of thousands. Thus the only public answer must be a conservative one.</p>
<p>I’m going to say that motivational speakers are sometimes full of crap.</p>
<p>Moving on… this argument is ridiculous. If it comes out tonight or tomorrow night, great. If not, good. In two days time (at the most) Stanford will have answered.</p>
<p>Irresponsible? It’s accepted fact that the vast majority of schools (minus the Ivies) release decisions prior to their stated dates or times. According to the stated release dates, I should not have heard back from any of my schools, but I’ve received decisions from six, with only two remaining (Stanford and an Ivy). I don’t know why you seem so set on complaining about this, but you should clearly find something better to do.</p>
<p>Stanford might wait until 8 p.m. EST, but I doubt it. It’s probably a self-imposed deadline as it is at most institutions.</p>
<p>Dude, it’s April Fools Day…:D</p>
<p>In all honesty, I am also a little tired of Stanford’s games with when they plan to release decisions. Hopefully it won’t be as bad as UChicago.</p>
<p>Dude, wouldn’t it totally suck if all the decisions released on April 1st was an April Fool’s joke? yield would drop so fast.</p>
<p>Lol I hope they come out today so I can know before the ivy schools release their decisions but if they don’t I guess all we can do is wait. I don’t think it’s irresponsible on Stanford’s behalf. I kinds like the uncertainty, regardless of the outcome. It makes it exciting</p>
<p>Hmmm…well, personally, I don’t really enjoy surprise rejection emails. If I know when it comes out, at least I’ll have my Project Runway marathon videos ready, and thus damage will be somewhat minimized through cooing over Jillian’s ZOMGSOHOT candy-dress.</p>
<p>Why are any you giving indianInLA any credence? Isnt it clear from his countless grammatical mistakes to pointing out the inability of stanford to provide decisions in a “robust” manner (usually defined as strong or full of energy— clearly a semantic mistake) that the OP clearly isn’t one to be criticizing a multi-billion dollar institution which has been the alma matter of many of the leaders he or she idolizes? </p>
<p>To the OP: Let me guess you went to the NYLF or something along those lines? That does not make you smart. Even getting into Stanford doesn’t give you the authority to mock others as not worthy of your future company. You are clearly an arrogant kid who needs a reality check.</p>
<p>Waiting a couple days…is… so … difficult… damn stanford lol</p>