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Hi guys, Sorry for the long story, but I would like to get some opinions from you on this peculiar situation!! I was accepted by Stanford's M.S. in statistics for fall 2010. The deadline was 4/15. I was spending a lot of time deciding between my options, and ironically I was stupid enough to miss the deadline by 32 minutes. (I submitted my reply at 00:32 a.m. on 4/16). I naively assumed that the department had received my response, but I was curious why I was never contacted by the department in the past 1 week. It is not until yesterday that I learned my spot was offered to people who were on the waitlist, which came as a total shock to me (though this is completely my mistake!). The secretary told me that since I didn't reply through the stanford online reply system (i.e. Axess), she assumed that I was not going to attend the program so gave my spot away. She also said typically they would give an extra 24 hours for people to reply, but since I didn't reply through their system, she assume I was not going to go. She also told me that at this point the best I can do is to hope that someone would decide not to attend the university, and that is the only way I can fill in again. (basically I am on a single person waitlist with very small chance of being accepted again). I asked her if I could talk to the professors, and she said that these kind of things backfires the student and she wouldn't encourage me to do so. At that point I felt quite helpless, because not only my reply was 30 minutes late, it was not sent through the proper channel. And Today..... I tried to re-read the acceptance email today, and it says: "You may respond to our offer of admission online via Axess at http://studentaffair...ssions/admitted..." It is not until then that I realized the email did not specify a specific way of replying, which let me believe that sending an admission reply by email should also be feasible. It is not until then I started to speculate if the secretary even read my email (even though it was late). I also sent her an email last week, and she did not reply. She also suggested me not to talk to the professors, is this normal? I felt like if the department is willing to take the time to review a student's profile and is willing to accept him/her, they would at least try to inform the student that the spot is going away even if the student didn't reply properly by the deadline. Do you guys think I have a chance to ask for them to make an exception? What should I do?

Please guys, any suggestions. Please help me out

Hi guys, I was offer admission by Stanford's M.S in statistics, the reply deadline was 4/15. I emailed the statistics secretary about 30 minutes late after the deadline (4/16 12:30 a.m.) hence my reply was late. I was not contacted by the department during the past week and I naively assumed they have received my reply. I call the department today and the secretary informed me that they offer my spot to the waitlisters because they thought I was going to decline the offer. Furthermore, they also informed me that since I failed to formally accept the offer electronically (which all students who intend to join the school need to do), they reserved the right to give away my spot to other students. The secretary informed me that she will make a note on the system and if any student who later decide not to attend the program, I will get the spot. This is completely my mistake, and it is a big one. I will have to take full responsibility of my own actions, but I was wondering if you could suggest me what to do. Who in the department (chair? M.S advisor?) should I talk to at this point? Did anyone accepted Stanford's offer but might decide to go else where because you are still on the waitlist for other Ph.D programs? Please let me know. Thank you very much

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