An OCD friend of mine said that he really prefers the HBS method over the Stanford one. HBS is clear and does not leave you hanging. It's a clean break up/proposal that is communicated to you on a specified date. You know when to check and where. Stanford on the other hand keeps you in this constant state of torture. There's a month long countdown and every day you assume you are even closer to being turned down. While you may have no idea what the status of your actual application is you are indeed a locked soul checking your email on a daily basis. When that doesn't help you go to GMATClub and see that other people are getting interviews. You're neither here nor there. Then you start checking your GSB account to see maybe you didn't get the email for some reason (hey, it happens). Every day the angst and the pressure builds up and you keep thinking: 19 out of 20 applicants don't get in.
A month is a long time to turn you crazy.