undergraduate @ stanford

Founded in 1891 by railway tycoon Leland Stanford in remembrance of his son, who died aged 16, Stanford is said to be, after Harvard, the US’ most selective university, accepting only 7.1 per cent of applicants. Its alumni founded corporate giants including Hewlett-Packard and Google. The world’s third-richest university, it teaches 6,800 undergraduate and 3,800 graduate students.

Application Deadlines

Freshman Applicants

Application Deadline and Notification/Reply Dates

	Restrictive Early Action	Regular Decision
Application Deadline	November 1	January 1
Last Acceptable SAT Test Date	October	December
Last Acceptable ACT Test Date	October	December
Notification of Missing Documents	Mid-November	Mid-February
Notification Date	December 15	April 1
Student Reply Date	May 1	May 1

Transfer Applicants

Application Deadline and Notification/Reply Dates

Application Deadline	March 15
Last Acceptable SAT Test Date	January
Last Acceptable ACT Test Date	February
Notification of Missing Documents	April
Notification Date	May 15
Student Reply Date	June 1

All deadlines are midnight Pacific Time of the electronic submission or postmark dates listed above.