Stanford University (2025-2026)

[little sundial]

yeah idk it's weird if u live abroad

because my family doesnt pay taxes

but also dont ahve assets

[balmy raft]

usc is stingy you have to fight for the aid tbh

[sour geyser]

Cornell said im full pay even tho their tuition is way more than our income ❤️

[little sundial]

wtf

[little sundial]

(not tax fraud, just my country doesnt have income tax)

[balmy raft]

california has so many taxes

so freaking annoying living here

[little sundial]

that's not good

[sour geyser]

Wait I forgot u were a us citizen lmao

[little sundial]

do most ppl move out of the state

[balmy raft]

no not really

[little sundial]

after undergrad

[sour geyser]

I am so grateful every day that I didn’t ed them

[little sundial]

oh

[balmy raft]

oh wait

[little sundial]

ik this 1 dude who ed'd and had to cancel offer cuz terrible aid fro mthem

[balmy raft]

after undergrad just depends on what they studied

[sour geyser]

bruh I heard that they were stingy but ts was unimaginable lmao

brown was also kinda bad tho

[balmy raft]

like swe ur prolly staying in sf/bay area

[sour geyser]

They wanted like 20k more than Yale 🥲

[little sundial]

awesomesauce

[balmy raft]

maybe nyc if u quant

finance also nyc or other big cities

etc etc

[little sundial]

how bad

are u sure u didnt put the wrong currency

[sour geyser]

U gon be a Silicon Valley tech bro

[little sundial]

in ur reporting

[sour geyser]

LMAOO im making my dad check if my scholarships don’t work out

Cuz lowkey my brother reported double our income on accident

[little sundial]

oh my god

[sour geyser]

Luckily he got an external full ride so it worked out but 💀

[balmy raft]

my efc was 5 million zimbabwean dollars

[little sundial]

dude i think for princeton i reported 3x less than our income cuz i mixed up the qar / usd with usd / qar (i didnt get in)

[sour geyser]

yeah… my parents were really really in emotional turmoil trying to figure out how they’d pay

If he didn’t get the full ride I would not have been going to college 😀

[little sundial]

ended up being fixed tho right

[little sundial]

o

[balmy raft]

I’m like 0 for 18 on scholarships 💀 gonna end it all ngl

[sour geyser]

Holy scammer

[little sundial]

dude i actually freaked out when i checked the document AFTER i submitted

i reuploaded that shit 10 times 😭

[sour geyser]

nah he bagged a scholarship from an organization so he was insanely lucky lmao

[little sundial]

i was thinking of applying for that davidson thingy

but then remembered that im a chud

[sour geyser]

Lmao I applied for like 20 asw and only 2 worked out for schools I’m not committing to 🥲

They kept edging me with semifinalist and finalist bs too

[little sundial]

that actually sucks

[balmy raft]

ye but u have decent aid

[sour geyser]

LMAOO Princeton finaid was a hassle tho

[sour geyser]

Right…

[little sundial]

i really got pissed off at the schools that made me submit forms on their sites

instead of idoc/css/fafsa

[sour geyser]

Nah it’s good tho Yales aid still makes attending affordable

[little sundial]

goated

and im assumign stanford ur gonna hear back in a week

cuz i havent gotten my package yet

[sour geyser]

But I hope these full rides clutch up cuz then I won’t have to be a broke college student 😎

[little sundial]

and since ur international ur prob missing a ton of documents

[sour geyser]

Yeah 😭😭 hope some work for u fr

[little sundial]

oh wait ur itl u didnt apply aid for stanford did u

[balmy raft]

[little sundial]

just that one important scholarship

when do you hear back again

[sour geyser]

Lmao idoc confused me so bad

[little sundial]

They once emailed me about a school requesting documents but didn't tell me which school and what documents 😭 😭

[sour geyser]

Nah I didn’t apply for aid stanford 😭 decided that if I get in I’d have to bag the external full ride cuz they hate intl kids asking for money 😔

[little sundial]

grr

they acting like they dont have a ton of money 😭

[sour geyser]

There’s 2 and I’m hearing back early April I think

[little sundial]

good luck!!

[sour geyser]

Prolly next week is my first interviews if I get through

[sour geyser]

BROOO

[little sundial]

interviews will be so good for you

they get to learn how awesome u are

[sour geyser]

Every time 😭😭

[little sundial]

And then when I open the portal I see absolutely NOTHING

[balmy raft]

honestly let me do the npc again for stanford lmao maybe it’ll be different

[sour geyser]

Genuinely ima need them to go need blind for intls soon before I riot

[little sundial]

prefire ur next yr's tuition

[sour geyser]

It’s in my mother tongue tho so might be cooked

[little sundial]

dont they have this process where if you request aid they re-evaluate your application or smthn

[sour geyser]

English comes easier for me 😔💔 #productofglobalization

[little sundial]

oh my god

it would be wraps for me

[balmy raft]

yeah I’m fucking cooked 💀

[sour geyser]

Bye idek my brother had a third ao evaluation cuz they were so on edge w him 😭😹

[little sundial]

bro how bad is it looking

nooo

😭

[little sundial]

oop

[sour geyser]

u n me both gang

[little sundial]

the other ones are also interview?

[sour geyser]

He highkey got cooked rd it was so funny

[sour geyser]

Yep

[balmy raft]

well I alr got my package let’s just say that I’m still gonna have to pay 350k if I don’t get any scholarships

[little sundial]

home's langauge?

[sour geyser]

And these are ones that rejected me as a semifinalist/finalist beforehand

[little sundial]

WE are gonna cold email a random ass billionaire to cover our tuition

[sour geyser]

I’m hoping that applying this time with these acceptances do something for them

[balmy raft]

does this work 😭

[sour geyser]

Yezzir

[balmy raft]

I’m actually like considering it

[sour geyser]

Do a stanford grad

[little sundial]

I saw it work on one dude but it got so popular afterwards that it became almost impossible

[sour geyser]

say you’ll work for them post grad

And disappear

[little sundial]

not a bad idea

also some ppl like microsoft

cover ur college expenses

[balmy raft]

maybe I go for rotc my sophomore yr

[little sundial]

if u sign them right after undergrad

[sour geyser]

Ask like shaq fr

[little sundial]

didnt he make a university

[balmy raft]

I’m like half of shaq

[little sundial]

LMAO

[balmy raft]

shaq sqrt

ugh if I didn’t have assets npc says like 20k efc

[sour geyser]

Did he, it might work fr

[little sundial]

DAMN

[soft geyser]

my goat 😢

[charred canyon]

guys can someone explain me what these percentages are ?

[balmy raft]

april fools thing

[charred canyon]

yeah but what do they indicate?

wtf UIUC - 57%?

bro i didn't even apply there

[balmy raft]

#📢-announcements

it’s not serious they just put random schools and numbers

hence april fools

[vale charm]

ill do u one better

10 better actually

[ebon dirge]

stanford just raised their tuition to 100k/year for this year wtf

good luck to everyone who's going

[trim cosmos]

Thanks

[gaunt mesa]

Mine's like 107k$ 😭 however their scholarship is obviously generous

[glossy talon]

what the fuck

[ebon dirge]

APRIL FOOLS

[storm swallow]

Just got my aid offer back & it's terrible?? Idek if I'll go to admit weekend atp 💔

[balmy raft]

u can appeal

[storm swallow]

Can it be cut as drastically as from like $50k to $25k? I don't understand how Stanford classifies "typical assets" but my family's AGI fits their free-tuition range

[balmy raft]

did you do the npc

[vale charm]

what the fuck

[dull plover]

Yo what

Wait what

My finaid only said like

67 for tuition

Before aid

[willow quest]

is it just the 500 chars for stanford if you got wl?

[glossy talon]

i think so

i just did the 500 chars

i think its aura loss to send them another loci

you could do a counselor advocacy call if you really wanted ot

[willow quest]

i also think they might not read it/care

[glossy talon]

lowkey yeah

i got so brutally mogged at Stanford

because a kid with more legacy than me got in but hes such a worse student

and his family is rich and donated

mine hasnt given a dollar since like the 70s

[willow quest]

i didnt know this was a thing

[willow quest]

georgetown is rly good asw

[glossy talon]

yeah i lowkey probably wont go if i get off wl

but i want to have the option

[willow quest]

ah

yea hopefully its solid this year

varies so much

[tall condor]

gang do you guys have any advice on how to structure the stanford waitlist response

are they looking for a short loci-style note or just bullet points

[glossy talon]

ts lowkirk not that deep

institutional priority matters more

i just wrote a few sentences

only 25 got off last year they were probably all underadmitted majors or sttes

[tall condor]

damn ggs

[glossy talon]

zont worry about things you can’t control, just send a loci and if you really want do a counselor call

idt they take extra recs right

[tall condor]

aiya its okay

[glossy talon]

anyway in mine i was like so honored to accept my place stanford my top choice yada yada

and then a few sentences abut what ive done

[tall condor]

ohhh okay

i think ill probably do that too

i got some good updates so hopefully they see that

[balmy raft]

sun ☀️

[ripe grail]

Hi guys is anyone else just getting rlly bad aid from stanny

[trim cosmos]

I am not

[storm swallow]

Me, Stanford was >4x Princeton's COA and 2x JHU's COA after fin aid

[grim meadow]

does stanford send personal AO notes?

also do they match yales offers

[balmy raft]

I think so

I got one but i was rea

[balmy raft]

no they don’t care but u can try

[trim cosmos]

They should?

[trim cosmos]

Yes mine was quite sweet as well

[grim meadow]

thanks guys!

[gaunt mesa]

Do you guys have any Stanford YouTubers that you like to watch??

[gaunt mesa]

Ikr

Scholarship is about 91k tho so

[autumn plume]

thx

[gaunt mesa]

For current students do you guys know any philosophy majors?

[frail rover]

how hard is the competition for top firms at stanford

like what percent would get an interview

[haughty obsidian]

I know a soph who is doing a philo major yes

[gaunt mesa]

Awesome! Can I DM you?

[haughty obsidian]

I mean, I can’t quite speak for them, but yeah ofc I’m down

[gaunt mesa]

I wanted to get their contact haha

[soft geyser]

Thats what she zedd

[vale charm]

st. anford's academy of tomfoolery and research

[sour geyser]

Stanford isn’t sending out admit packages this year? Loser school fr wtf 😔

[balmy raft]

yeah LMAO

the package was 95% confetti anyways

I missed out on some socks

[dull plover]

They only sent to likelies pretty sure

So lame

[sour geyser]

i wanted more jibbits

[sour geyser]

yuck, yall should reconsider and choose yale they'd never show such bias...

[dull plover]

...

Yale din want me

[sour geyser]

just saying... clearly stanford doesnt value us non likelies like thats kinda crazy

[sour geyser]

ill talk to my ao for u

[dull plover]

At least they let me in bro

I genuinely might be bottom of the barrel of stanford admits

I got denied EVERYWHERE else

[sour geyser]

u n me both

[sour geyser]

wait my brother was just like this

he got in rea then rejected everywhere rd lmao 😭

[dull plover]

Does stanford offer pity points or sm bs

https://tenor.com/view/road-to-hell-is-paved-ivy-league-degrees-thomas-sowell-austrian-economics-malazarte-gif-17236118

[sour geyser]

nah i feel like they look for smth a bit different

[dull plover]

I guess

[sour geyser]

but ay u got in so who cares fr

just kinda bummy that they dont send out packages

[dull plover]

Yeah fr

[glossy talon]

ts me

[balmy raft]

bro says as a yale and brown admit

and other schools I forgot

[sour geyser]

Trust I barely scraped an acceptance for all of them 💀

But it’s okay cuz that doesn’t matter anymore

[haughty obsidian]

it only takes one ❌
it only takes three (for kaz) ✅

[grim meadow]

how long does it take for them to review ur fin aid after they have all the required docs

[little sundial]

1-2 weeks

[sour geyser]

Highkey im a chronic “what if”-er… if I could go to my top 5 I would 💀

[haughty obsidian]

me too but doesn't have anything to do with you scraping by. keep ur head up monarch

[grand tangle]

wait actually😭

[grand tangle]

dw i think social media ruined our perception .most ppl only get into 1 ivy and get rejected everywhere else

[glossy talon]

most people only get into 0 ivies

you are not normal 🫵

[grand tangle]

I mean out of ppl who got into an ivy

But yeah😭

[sour geyser]

Apparantely so, seems like they’re gonna beg on admitted students day lmaoo

[dull plover]

truth

[warm spire]

Ya most people get rejected from every ivy they apply to

[warm spire]

I was lucky and this happened to me

[tall condor]

Hey guys! do you know if its a good idea to write a loci if my updates are noticeably a step down from what ive achieved last year

I won a bunch of competitions last year but only got really menial awards this year

will they think im falling off

[glossy talon]

the loci is 500 chars

surely you can fit good things

not writing a 500 char loci is demonstrated disinterest

[tall condor]

yeahh but my updates are lowkey not as good as what i achieved last year :(

[glossy talon]

So what are you going to do about it??

Just write the Loci

put it in the bag

its literally 500 chars

[tall condor]

yeah idk

might js have to tank this

[sour geyser]

Got an email from my ao! :)

[timid sun]

omg same! mine was so sweet as well:)

[glossy talon]

https://tenor.com/view/shakespeare-meme-shakespeare-shakespeare-you-gif-4055677556302353388

your recommender

[timid sun]

she's my literature teacher so her writing is fire 🔥

[solar notch]

Did anyone hear from waitlist yet?

[glossy talon]

i have not

probably going to have to wait until may 1 for movement

yield is so high

[solar notch]

There is some talk that they send out a notice before May 1 because they have had enough commitments by that time to close the waitlist.

[glossy talon]

and they probably over enrolled

[solar notch]

I was thinking wait a week after May 1 but since it’s Stanford, I could see enough committing in advance

And there is also some talk that they actually close the waitlist at some point

[glossy talon]

yeah they’ll probably reject most soon after 5/1

[balmy raft]

can guarantee that the waitlist will not move before May 1

[willow quest]

very unlikely they dont go to the waitlist (they've done so for like a decade now)

its just not gonna be a whole lot of ppl

and very very rarely do they send out an update in april

can happen, but unlikely

usually its second friday of may, around the time transfer decisions drop

[sour geyser]

Guys idk if this is a mass email but i got such a sweet & friendly follow up email from my ao asking if he could do anything to help me choose stanford hed be glad to help 😭 maybe i shoulda been part of the farm fr... im being ghosted by my yale ao

[glossy talon]

Nono yale is better fr

[sour geyser]

u right gang

[unborn pasture]

can i dm someone at stanford or similar uni about soemthing

[steady hemlock]

choose stanford you won’t regret it

[balmy raft]

definitely not a mass email

probably not

[ripe grail]

my interviewer wanted to do a follow up meeting with me shes super chill

[sour geyser]

Nahh chose Yale #noregrets

I’ll visit campus cuz my brothers there tho, I’ll see what I missed out on

[fading shore]

Any of yall gonna try and test out of courses

[ruby idol]

same

for georgetown i mean

[karmic raven]

js seeing this

😭😭

oops

[fading shore]

LOL

[glossy talon]

no wl movement yet right

[willow quest]

dont think so

i think it wont be until the 8th or 15th of may

[haughty obsidian]

I'm room hosting for someone who is "sixty forty" between Stanford and Yale

People like you are the source of their bad ideas smh

[sour geyser]

LMAOO

give me their ig and ill convert them into 70/30 for yale 😉

[balmy raft]

I convinced my roommate to go to stanford

weather was so nice

[haughty obsidian]

they just told me they're 70/30 for stanford xd

[sour geyser]

Noooo 😔😔

[trim cosmos]

Admit weekend was so lit ts ain't happening at BDD or CPW or Visitas

[vapid lily]

what do yall like ab stanford

[steady hemlock]

i convinced so many people to choose stanford

genuinely increased yield by whole percentage points

[haughty obsidian]

nice

I had a hard time

cuz there was a physics major choosing between caltech

A polisci person choosing between harvard

Lwk like I didn’t have much argument for those guys 😭

[steady hemlock]

nah those are easy

the hardest was convincing humanities ppl not to choose yale

[glossy talon]

RIP

[trim cosmos]

Stanford poli sci only ranked #1

[haughty obsidian]

Yeah I know but he was having none of it because he wanted to join a debate team

Wait is it rly ranked 1??

I just told him the department has a lot of very established faculty and that my polisci friend is rly happy

[trim cosmos]

Yes

[trim cosmos]

Wow I’m sure the Stanford debate events during admit weekend were riveting then

[haughty obsidian]

Bro idk i think he just wanted harvard all along but was trying to be nice to all of us lol

[trim cosmos]

I guess

I’m obligated to dislike HYM because they’re poaching Stanford admits at an unusual rate this year lowk

[ripe grail]

its only mit in my experience so far tbh literally everyone i met was turning down yale(me included lol)

the only debates were between mit stanford and if they were in something like astrophysics/mat sci/niche non engineering or cs stem maybe harvard princeton and a lot of ppl still leaned stanford

[trim cosmos]

MIT is for the actual nerds they can do what they want

[sour geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/nick-wilde-zootopia-2-scuba-stank-dance-gif-8096934517146616303

[sour geyser]

Wait uncommit and join us

it’s been a 50/50 for me from what I’ve seen between Yale and Stanford

[trim cosmos]

My condolences

[glossy talon]

internship opportunities are stinky

Where tf u gonna go

and dont say BSIW

[trim cosmos]

Hoover Institute

Haas Center gives u like $8k stipend to pursue shit in the community, in the state, in the country, and around the world

[ruby idol]

i had a dream i got off the waitlist at stanford

but i got rejected

[balmy raft]

because stanford didnt send a package

jk

[steady hemlock]

harvard and mit took a lot but yale kinda fell off

[trim cosmos]

The only one that really pmoed was Harvard

But two of my friends declined Harvard for Stanford so it’s aight

[solar notch]

More of a nightmare?

Lurking on this list for someone to say waitlist is closed lol

[ripe grail]

waitlist cant close this early

[trim cosmos]

Yea yield kinda felt mid this year too

Hold out hope fr

[balmy raft]

stanford admitted 57 ppl off the waitlist last year that’s not bad

[trim cosmos]

10% acceptance rate off the waitlist

Good luck warriors

[sick hatch]

how do yk

[finite summit]

is there any chance i can get my spot at stanny still if i emailed 30 min after may 1 💔

[balmy raft]

cds

[balmy raft]

why would you wait?

[finite summit]

loll i didnt i js commited yale before and felt deep regret for not choosing stanny 😭

both great schools obviously but the lifestyle would be so different

[balmy raft]

you had a whole month 😭 at least make sure you are like 100% stanford over yale cause theres no way they will take u back if u switch

all things considered 30 mins probably fine

[finite summit]

i fear i am 100

[finite summit]

praying

[balmy raft]

wait why did you do yale then

im confused

[finite summit]

im confused too bro

i found BDD to be more enjoyable and the community but when i look at it long term, stanfords where i see myself thriving

and its so far from home & weather will get to me bc im anemic asf

[balmy raft]

well r u sure u like stanford more now or is it more like post committment day fomo

[finite summit]

yea im sure

but probs gonna be a no

[trim cosmos]

I saw your post in the Stanford subreddit

[finite summit]

yep

[balmy raft]

reddit imd ead

[trim cosmos]

I can't even call these decisions rash you had a month

[finite summit]

ikik

[balmy raft]

i think its ok im sure this scenario is pretty common

if it was a day difference then that would b diff but 30 mins is probably okay

[finite summit]

ill keep u updated

[steady hemlock]

wait i literally did this like a month later and it was fine

[finite summit]

wth?? did u js email ur ao

what school did u commit to

[steady hemlock]

yeah

[finite summit]

thats fire i hope the same happens for me

[steady hemlock]

ik a lot of ppl that regretted their decision and switched to stanford

and since they care a lot about their yield + haven’t moved the waitlist yet, you’ll get your spot back

[finite summit]

i thought ur spot gets taken after may 1

[finite summit]

yay 🥹

[steady hemlock]

nah

this was an email i got last year

[finite summit]

yess i responded to that one explaining the situation

[steady hemlock]

ya you’ll be fine dw

[finite summit]

thank you!

[dull plover]

so like I just checked and none (zero) of my IB credits will give me any more than my AP credits already have in terms of college credit at standford so like can I just get 4s on all my IB exams and be chillin, I didn't submit predicted scores on my college app

any1 know?

or will I get yoinked

could I just not send my IB scores

cuz I didnt send any predicted

[ripe grail]

u just need to get the ib diploma and u should be fine

aka u need to graduate lol

[dull plover]

My school has a regular diploma too but I cant see myself not getting the ib diploma atp id have to fail multiple SL exams really badly bc I got a 7 on most of my IAs

[tall condor]

Do ygs know when waitlist usually starts moving

[glossy talon]

rt

[trim ember]

Do ygs know when waitlist usually starts moving

[willow quest]

tmr i think

[glossy talon]

fahh

[tall condor]

pleaseeeeeee let me in 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[ripe grail]

next week

[solar notch]

If anyone gets in off WL please let us know here.

[trim ember]

is it today

or next week

[willow quest]

i think today?

i believe they drop with transfer decisions, which should be today

[trim ember]

ig we’ll see soon

[willow quest]

yes we will

gl

[willow quest]

any movement?

[vale charm]

transfer decisions just came out so idk how much that will change things

[willow quest]

yea i thought they dropped with transfer

but im not seeing anything on reddit

[trim ember]

i guess not

[willow quest]

next friday then?

[trim ember]

so no waitlist movement today?

[timid sun]

my friend got off the wl

like 4 days ago

[glossy talon]

wtf???

[timid sun]

I turned down my spot some time ago so maybe it was passed to him

[tight kite]

what

[balmy raft]

div 1 cap

[solar notch]

What do you mean, an admit for sport?

[tall condor]

damnnn

[vale charm]

fuck stanford and fuck cal

#hater

[solar notch]

Let’s keep it civil now ya’ll. The top schools can afford to be choosy, and it’s great if you’re able to get in but you don’t need them to do great in life. If you really want to go to a top school, then apply yourself and get mostly A’s wherever you go. If you are a very solid student in college, I think you could get grad school at a top school later easier than getting in as an undergrad.

[vale charm]

god forbid a man be a hater

im just hatin for the love of the game

[solar notch]

I understand. I counter that there’s already too much hate in the world. 🤪

[haughty obsidian]

there's not enough world in the hate

[vale charm]

https://tenor.com/view/morgan-freeman-true-morgan-freeman-true-cube-spinning-morgan-freeman-true-gif-6497263663941640363

[tall condor]

bro fr

is it time to punch the nearest tree

[haughty obsidian]

the pear falls not far from the tree