<p>@Whattodo122, because some things are worth waiting for 
I know how impatient you all are. Go to the gym, go to a movie, read a good book, have dinner with friends. Tuesday will eventually arrive.</p>
<p>Good luck. </p>
<p>Does anyone know where we can actually access our Eli accounts to check for the decision when it comes out? My neurotic ways made me want to check if the app was complete, but the checklist is disabled and I don’t see anywhere where we can log in or access the decision?</p>
<p>This seems to be the link @andros12
<a href=“https://secure2.its.yale.edu/acas-ea/?service=https%3A%2F%2Fapply.yale.edu%2Fdecision%2Fadmit%2Fapplicant”>https://secure2.its.yale.edu/acas-ea/?service=https%3A%2F%2Fapply.yale.edu%2Fdecision%2Fadmit%2Fapplicant</a></p>
<p>@razaza thank you so much! So I suppose that will be active on the 16th, but as far as you know, it’s no longer possible to really log into the Eli account, right? One can’t seem to see the status of the application anymore?</p>
<p>The portal will be live at 5 PM Eastern and the application checklist is closed. You can log on to your Eli account but there is nothing there. 
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<p>GUYS this is very irrelevant to our current discussion, but it is 12/13/14!! The last time the date will line up like this in our lifetimes! Just thought it was kinda cool, so enjoy today everybody </p>
<p>they’ve probably already made most of their decisions :o </p>
<p>But, no doubt, they are still making some up until the day of.</p>
<p>^probably only the ones completely on the fence, they’ve closed the eli accounts so that they can start editing our pages to show our rejection/deferral/acceptance letters :’(</p>
<p>@Stargazer25 Just as a side note MIT releases its application today (12/13/14) at 3:16 which is (15:16)</p>
<p>3 days 3 hours and 33 minutes 33 seconds till we have our hearts broken </p>
<p>I guess it’s kinda good that Yale is going out later. It shows how much time they’re spending on each one of our applications.</p>
<p>@Pengoon That’s very cool!</p>
<p>Stanford’s denial email. I actually don’t care as much about the admission decision after reading it. :)</p>
<p>This Afternoon, my office sent out over 34,000 email notifications to high school seniors who applied Regular Decision and were waiting with anticipation to learn whether they would be invited to spend the next four years at Stanford.
Even though I have been in the admission field for over 30 years, I still feel quite a bit of pain at the end of this week (as I do each year) about the many exceptional youths who were not offered a space in the class. I also expect that in the following weeks I will hear from parents who are understandably distraught that their sons and daughters with top high school class rankings, very high SAT scores and some truly impressive extracurricular accomplishments were denied entry.
Clearly, I believe that a Stanford education is wonderful, but my experience suggests it’s often parents who are more upset about our admission decisions than the kids. I can relate to their concerns: I found myself getting jittery as my own daughter waited for her college application decisions. But given that today’s teens already have enough pressure in their lives, I wish to impart three credos to these parents.<br>
First, it’s all relative. While the number admitted into the undergraduate class has remained unchanged for years, Stanford, like many of its peer schools, has had a record number of total applicants – more than 42,000. Regardless of arguments over whether too much preference is given to one category over another, thousands of students are going to be turned away, and there is no doubt that the vast majority of them could have met the demands of a Stanford education. We could, for instance, have filled incoming classes four or five times over with applicants who achieved grade point averages of 4.0 or greater.
I wish there were a formula to explain who is accepted and who isn’t, but the decision-making is as much art as it is science. Each class is a symphony with its own distinct composition and sound; the final roster is an effort to create harmony, and that means that some extraordinary bass players don’t get a chair. What’s more, even among my staff there are legitimate differences about applicants. The bottom line: The world is not going to judge anyone negatively because they didn’t get into Stanford or one of our peer institutions.
Second, celebrate the bigger picture. Despite the constant media buzz about the turbulent state of youth today, most of the applications I reviewed – as well as those reviewed by my colleagues at Stanford and elsewhere – are truly remarkable. And in most cases, those denied admission to some schools are admitted to others. The transition from high school to college is a monumental turning point, and it’s more important to focus on how a young adult is moving on to a new stage than where that stage happens to be. This is the moment when parents should mark the success of their children and rejoice in the excitement that the next four years will bring.
And that leads to my final point: Education is what a student makes of it. Of course, certain schools have resources that others don’t, but they all offer opportunities to learn and to grow.
I am reminded of a teenager graduating high school in Sunnyvale, Calif., in 1975, who applied to only Stanford and one other school. He was understandably disappointed when denied admission here, but he later excelled as an undergraduate at the distinguished university across San Francisco Bay, UC Berkeley.
He went on to earn a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and to become a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins. In 2003, he joined the Stanford University School of Medicine and was the co‐winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2006.
Andrew Fire is not atypical when it comes to Stanford applicants. Nor for that matter is John Etchemendy, the Stanford provost and philosophy professor who also was denied admission as an undergraduate. Nor are any of the thousands of others who aren’t accepted to Stanford and go on to have fulfilling lives.
An undergraduate degree from Stanford, or an Ivy League college, may well end up being only one line at the bottom of a resume. What parents and college applicants across the country need to remember is that the news they receive, whether good or bad, is but a single step on a much longer journey.</p>
<p>Is it just me or does it say “regular decision” in the email?</p>
<p>I think that is an old email from Stanford’s regular decision pool. I think the point of posting it was the “three credos”.</p>
<p>It’s an old email. But it is so comforting! just preparing myself for the rejection :)</p>
<p>Ah. All right.</p>
<p>I’m terrified of decisions! I want to know, but then I don’t. I get all shaky just thinking about it. And I still have an English essay and semester exams to worry about :-S
I just don’t know what I’m going to do with myself. All I’m hoping for is a deferral.</p>
<p>Popped in from the Harvard thread. You guys are a lot less loud than we were
Good luck!!!</p>