<p>Except the Common App, I haven’t heard anything whatsoever.</p>
<p>hey all, i applied as well. Rising Junior from UMD-CP. Best of luck to all of you.</p>
<p>p.s. calling stanford =useless. you WILL get the <em>we will let you know if everything arrived safely in a couple weeks</em> they said that 1113204987 weeks ago. or you will get the <em>we havent started with the transfer apps yet</em> yuck.</p>
<p>I have a question!! I resend my essay because a mistake common app made, they said tey received it and will put it in my file…but if they haven’t even started making the folders, how will i know that??</p>
<p>I emailed admissions a week after I submitted my application and they said that they would start letting us know what has been received by mid April. So soon, very soon.</p>
<p>O ya.
I am applying as a member of the class of '12, from a respected top 30 school.
Come from an average sized public high school, in an average white, middle-class town in Massachusetts. My high school has sent 4 to Ivy’s in the past 10 years, and only a handful more to other “top” schools. I graduated 1st in my class with a 3.97.</p>
<p>Only applied to Stanford for transfer. Don’t necessarily hate it here, and figure if I can’t go where I really want to, why go through the hassle of transferring, but REALLY want to get in and go (don’t we all?).</p>
<p>ah. i really hope you go to tufts. i love that place!</p>
<p>how was it that easy to tell? lol</p>
<p>i just have a knack for these things. a sixth sense for colleges if you will lol. but really. there is something magical about tufts!</p>
<p>hey all, i’m new to this board. :)</p>
<p>1) the year you’re applying for:<br>
Fall, 2009 (Junior)</p>
<p>2) general description of the college you’re in now:<br>
I’m in a community college, Berkeley City College (part of Peralta Community Colleges). It’s in Berkeley, obviously, and is just a hop over the Bay from Stanford. Personally, my experience has been incredibly frustrating. The classes and teachers are a joke, for the most part, and I barely have to study to get A’s. Not a mark of my intelligence, but a mark of the lack of rigor in the classroom. Alas.</p>
<p>3) how your HS stats were in comparison to the rest of your HS class (below average, average, above average, excellent) and how competitive your HS was:
Um, I was bottom of the stack. I went to a Catholic college prep school, well respected, but I was ranked 186 out of 250. My HS gpa was 2.91 and only because I always had A’s in art and other electives. 
But that was 15 years ago, so who cares.</p>
<p>4) your hometown if you’re comfortable saying it (it could be as vague or specific as you want):
I’m from Berkeley, CA! I live in Albany! I can’t stand the politics of the bay area but I’d stay for Stanford! (Even though I’m a die hard Bear fan.)</p>
<p>Good fortune to you all! Regarding getting an update from Stanford, I followed their instructions to email them for info, and I had a response within an hour. They let me know that all materials were received, which was nice to hear.</p>
<p>Yo, you’re a die hard Bear fan and you’re trying to get into Stanford? Haha that’s ironic. But anyways did you hear from Stanford through <a href=“mailto:admission@stanford.edu”>admission@stanford.edu</a>? Did you get an automatic generic response message?</p>
<p>gahhh it takes so loooong</p>
<p>When you send an email, you get an automatic response saying they try there best to get back to you quickly, essentially. Then your get a personal response within a day or two.</p>
<p>p.s. guys i called today and was told that they didnt have my hs transcript/secondary school report and that i need to fax it to them. errrg</p>
<p>can i wait for them to notify me of my missing documents or do i have to contact them to check? will they notify me if my application is complete or only if i am missing stuff?</p>
<p>yes, i’m a die hard bear fan and applied to the big 'furd. i’ll resist wearing blue and gold on campus. i have family that went to stanford, and they were all bear fans, so it’s all good. furd is higher ranked, what can i say? and i suspect it won’t be as full of the berkeley type; which for me is good.</p>
<p>so’cali, i wouldn’t wait; i’d pop them a note through their online direction just to be sure.</p>
<p>hey ilivefree, what’s the “Berkeley type”? just curious.</p>
<p>it’s full of grungy liberal hippie types. you can’t walk 10 feet in berkeley without smelling pot. it’s very bay area, it’s very pseudo intellectual, it’s very anti-big business, and it’s very NOT me.</p>
<p>liontreelion. my observation of the “berkeley type” is a bit on the liberal end of the political spectrum. so. cali nailed it. and that is exactly why i’m conflicted about berkeley if they accept me and a school like stanford doesn’t. davis would better suit me as a town.</p>
<p>Berkeley does have that reputation, especially because of its long history of student protests. However, wouldn’t you say that Stanford is also “a bit on the liberal end of the political spectrum”? In any case, I’m fine as long as there’s political/ideological diversity.</p>