Stanford 2010!!! Forum

[crackberry]

Hey everyone, I'm weighing in here too. Submitted 11/1, complete 11/17. Stanford is definitely my top choice, so I would SOOOOOO love to get an answer by mid-December!!!

Good luck!

Not to douse your enthusiasm, but I have heard that they don't release most of their decisions until January.

They release a very small batch right smack in the middle of December. Admits only. God, I would KILL to be in that batch. I'm going to Vegas with a bunch of guys on 12/18 and a Stanford acceptance would make that weekend something to (not) remember.

[hermione0901]

I know. But they sent one of their batches of decisions out last year in December, so I'm holding out hope!

[CardinalRules]

Hey everyone, I'm weighing in here too. Submitted 11/1, complete 11/17. Stanford is definitely my top choice, so I would SOOOOOO love to get an answer by mid-December!!!

Good luck!

Not to douse your enthusiasm, but I have heard that they don't release most of their decisions until January.

They release a very small batch right smack in the middle of December. Admits only. God, I would KILL to be in that batch. I'm going to Vegas with a bunch of guys on 12/18 and a Stanford acceptance would make that weekend something to (not) remember.

That would be very nice. Harvard for Thanksgiving, Stanford for Christmas would be a lovely pair of presents.

[hermione0901]

That would be very nice. Harvard for Thanksgiving, Stanford for Christmas

would be a lovely pair of presents.

Got the first part! I agree, let's make it a set, shall we!

[CardinalRules]

That would be very nice. Harvard for Thanksgiving, Stanford for Christmas

would be a lovely pair of presents.[/quote][/quote][/quote][/quote]

Got the first part! I agree, let's make it a set, shall we![/quote]

If all goes well, we can shoot for the Triple Crown (Yale) in the spring! Your numbers are sensational, by the way, especially in a solid undergrad program like WUSTL. I assume that you only applied to Alabama for the Itunes.

[owhlcn]

If all goes well, we can shoot for the Triple Crown (Yale) in the spring!

yes please! nice and shiny and matching

[hermione0901]

That would be very nice. Harvard for Thanksgiving, Stanford for Christmas

would be a lovely pair of presents.

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Got the first part! I agree, let's make it a set, shall we![/quote]

If all goes well, we can shoot for the Triple Crown (Yale) in the spring! Your numbers are sensational, by the way, especially in a solid undergrad program like WUSTL. I assume that you only applied to Alabama for the Itunes.[/quote]

Thank you! And you're absolutely right about Alabama. Application fee waived, $20 on iTunes, why not?

[protokurios]

Thank you! And you're absolutely right about Alabama. Application fee waived, $20 on iTunes, why not?

I thought about doing that and then right before hitting submit I remembered that still had to pay $12 for the law school report.

[Nom Sawyer]

Thank you! And you're absolutely right about Alabama. Application fee waived, $20 on iTunes, why not?

I thought about doing that and then right before hitting submit I remembered that still had to pay $12 for the law school report.

+1

12 Real Dollars > 20 iScrewed Bucks

[tar2009]

Did many of you submit the Stanford "diversity" essay?

[CardinalRules]

Did many of you submit the Stanford "diversity" essay?

What "diversity" essay?

[owhlcn]

Did many of you submit the Stanford "diversity" essay?

What "diversity" essay?

+ a lot...what?!

[tar2009]

maybe im crazy... but didnt stanford have some sort of optional diversity statement? i dont mean to freak anyone out. I thought they did, but these days all of the apps start to blur together

[legends159]

the DS is not required but accepted by admissions

[tar2009]

yeah. the OPTIONAL one. I was just wondering if many people here submitted it. i sure didnt.

[CardinalRules]

yeah. the OPTIONAL one. I was just wondering if many people here submitted it. i sure didnt.

*big sigh of relief* Stop scaring me, friend!

No, I didn't submit the optional diversity statement. Since I don't exactly offer the type of diversity that they're targeting with that essay, I thought that it was better not to write it than to write an unconvincing statement that implicitly illustrated just how little I have to offer in that regard.

I have much more confidence in my stats than my softs. If a LS isn't convinced by the hard data that I have to present, I don't think that we were probably made for each other in the first place.

[owhlcn]

yeah. the OPTIONAL one. I was just wondering if many people here submitted it. i sure didnt.

No, I didn't submit the optional diversity statement. Since I don't exactly offer the type of diversity that they're targeting with that essay, I thought that it was better not to write it than to write an unconvincing statement that implicitly illustrated just how little I have to offer in that regard.
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agreed, i wrote a pretty weak DS for penn and mich, but didn't think it was good enough to warrant sending it on to stanford. figured if they didn't like my softs/writing i was probably screwed anyway.

[SR86]

Just went complete at Stanford today. Likely my first-choice school so here's to hoping!

[Kronk]

I'm 99.9% sure Stanford picks their class at random from 168+ / 3.8+ applicants

[DallasCowboy]

I'm 99.9% sure Stanford picks their class at random from 168+ / 3.8+ applicants

I'll take it.

[CardinalRules]

I'm 99.9% sure Stanford picks their class at random from 168+ / 3.8+ applicants

Hmm, I thought that you'd learned your lesson regarding prognostications. Wait for the first 167 acceptance.

[Kronk]

Okay, so that was hyperbole. But really--I thought they were just GPA and soft heavy. But in comes bgc, who has amazing softs and a 3.9 / 179, flat out rejection from Stanford.

http://www.lawschoolnumbers.com/bgc

I don't know. Very strange admissions patterns.

[crackberry]

Okay, so that was hyperbole. But really--I thought they were just GPA and soft heavy. But in comes bgc, who has amazing softs and a 3.9 / 179, flat out rejection from Stanford.

http://www.lawschoolnumbers.com/bgc

I don't know. Very strange admissions patterns.

We like to keep it weird. Go Cardinal.

[CardinalRules]

Okay, so that was hyperbole. But really--I thought they were just GPA and soft heavy. But in comes bgc, who has amazing softs and a 3.9 / 179, flat out rejection from Stanford.

http://www.lawschoolnumbers.com/bgc

I don't know. Very strange admissions patterns.

Yes, bgc scared me a bit. Perhaps he embezzled public funds or concluded his PS with a paragraph on why he wanted to go to Berkeley.

[Kronk]

He probably didn't even send in a PS, just the image that was on all the "Fuck Stanford" t-shirts of the Berkeley Bear screwing the Cardinal.