<p>^ I was wondering when you were gonna show up, Mr. Stanford.</p>
<p>Ok, I understand that you guys are concerned about how much financial you might get for Stanford. But your CalGrant status has absolutely nothing to do with your Stanford admission decision, so I don’t see why anybody is worried! If you get a CalGrant congrats, if you don’t, then who cares? Its free money yes, but it’s based on our state’s availibility of funds, so it definitely does not apply to any out-of-state residents. Anyway, if any of us is fortunate enough to be offered admission, I garantee that forking out the funds for Stanford will not be a problem. Their financial aid packages are extremely generous.</p>
<p>Glad to see you on here, Bourne. You don’t know me, but I’m a fan of the Stanford 2008 thread. Hopefully, we’ll share your fortune this year :)</p>
<p>Seeing this thread constantly reminds me I have no chance. I’m relying solely on my super-risky essays. (:</p>
<p>Thank God I got into UCLA& Cal. I am at peace.</p>
<p>congrats on ucla and cal! if it comes down to the 2, pick la over berkeley. you’ll be happier. it’s a much nicer environment. it’s a better school too. go bruins!</p>
<p>We’ve reached the month of May and the 15-day mark. The serious countdown begins…</p>
<p>missyujin, congrats on two AMAZING schools!</p>
<p>yep, count down is on.</p>
<p>southern cali, i can’t believe i’m saying this, but i’m heavily leaning towards becoming a baby bruin… their anthropology dept. is a great fit for me. </p>
<p>and, i admit, it’d be nice to have a winning football team for a change. the bears can disappoint…</p>
<p>Thanks, guys! </p>
<p>I was leaning more towards Cal, but in my situation UCLA is more realistic.</p>
<p>Of course, this decision dilemma will all be solved if I get into Stanford…which means it probably will not be solved. :/</p>
<p>Missyujin, I also feel that my financial aid vs. education quality dilemma will also be solved with Stanford. What a perfect school for our situation!</p>
<p>lol ucla isn’t good at football. cal beat them this year. but ucla has an amazing athletic program and is best known for basketball. i really wanted to go to ucla but my parents wouldn’t let me. they were concerned about my partying and having too many friends from hs there.</p>
<p>Here’s an article of interest from April 24 about the housing situation:</p>
<p>[Univ</a>. hopes for appropriate yield | The Stanford Daily](<a href=“http://www.stanforddaily.com/cgi-bin/?p=1029992]Univ”>http://www.stanforddaily.com/cgi-bin/?p=1029992)</p>
<p>As you guys might already know, Stanford reduced the # of freshman admits by 100 to avoid over-enrolling, but their yield might go up anyway because of the generous FA. At the same time, Stanford is also going through an “un-stuffing” process to make dorm arrangements more comfortable for students, but I don’t know how this will affect the number of students they will ultimately want to take in from the waitlist or the transfer pool. Stanford seems very committed to transfers though, and I suspect at least 20 will be admitted each year in spite of overcrowding. All I know is… I’d be perfectly happy living in a closet somewhere if it means I get to attend Stanford lol.</p>
<p>i wonder if it will help me that i have ZERO intention of living on campus. i’m married with a big dog; i live about 40 min. from stanford, so could easily commute.</p>
<p>I would have no problem living off-campus either. If on-campus housing availability seems to be their only concern in limiting the # of transfers, couldn’t they just ask us to live off-campus? I just hope they count every available space in their inventory. I know here at Northwestern, space is supposed to be an issue but we actually have plenty of empty rooms in my building alone.</p>
<p>a lot of colleges stress the undergraduate dorm experience as being crucial to student life (i.e. harvard). stanford is probably similar and isn’t willing to accept someone if they cannot provide the same circumstances as other students. i don’t think it’s a question of whether or not applicants are comfortable or happy living off campus as it is the principle of the matter in the eyes of the university. just a thought.</p>
<p>My thought was that if there’s enough off-campus housing in the vicinity, living there wouldn’t necessarily take away from the sense of community that Stanford is trying to foster among students. I’m aware though that Stanford has a high % of students living on-campus… something like 90+%? I wonder if this has to do with the fact that off-campus options around the University are too expensive for most students…</p>
<p>If your HS things are not impressive (but for good reason; I was attending college and just “enrolled” in a HS program for legality purposes), your ACT&SAT are barely decent (ACT over 30, SAT over 2000), and you have 3.89 for community college GPA…</p>
<p>Do you even have a chance? My essays were great, though.</p>
<p>Honestly, we don’t know… I really like your website btw. I came across it when you told me to read your essay about your dad in one of the pages.</p>
<p>Did you know there’s a Red Mango near Stanford??! That makes me very happy haha.</p>
<p>pinkberry for life.</p>