How did you guys complete the waiting game?

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Hi @Nourabelle,

While it's perfectly normal to be anxious about SCREA for Stanford, you can't change to outcome by worrying about it whatsoever.

You shouldn't be contacting them for any reason right now. And I'm pretty sure that they have shaped 75-80% of their class already with 2 1/2 weeks to go.

The very best advice I can give you is to work on your regular decision essays which included tweaking your Main Common App Essay and making sure all the supplemental essays and questions are perfect. Like triple and quadruple check them for grammatical errors, and word choice, and optimize sentence structure, punctuation, and spelling.

Somewhere between 93-95% will not get accepted in the early round and perhaps 1/3-1/2 will get deferred in the RD. If you are not an ALDC (recruited athlete, legacy, development donor kid, or child of faculty), there is a super strong chance you will be deferred even if you are a strong applicant.

So unless you applied to Stanford as a Questbridge applicant along with another 5-10 backup match schools, chances are you better be prepared to apply RD. to the other schools on your college list.

Personally, I think it's going to be a very different mix of applicants that gets in this year to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford REA, and the other Ivys ED, because this might be the very last cycle colleges, can legally use "RACE" as a factor for who gets in and who doesn't. If you have read the previous 3 cycles of admissions results, you will see an upward trend in admits who identify as a person of color, admits who are low-income, and admits who are first-generation. So this might be the last cycle to level the playing field for applicants who are the most marginalized and deserving of a hand-up.

Why? Because if AA is overturned by the Supreme Court and "race" can't be used as an admissions factor, then there will be lower numbers of Black, LatinA, and Indigenous admits. Some say the numbers will drop by a factor of 2X. I don't think this is a win for America but that's just my 2 cents.

Stay busy and keep working on your RD college applications.