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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stanford wants to admit students who will change the world - more creative or unusual, if not an athlete. [/quote]
Yes, sure. We don't need a ChatGPT bot statement like that. [/quote]

It’s literally what their AOs have said. You can choose to ignore them, but they have made it fairly clear that perfect/near perfect SATs, Olympiad medals, and robotics do not really move the needle. A student with such a profile is wasting their ED/REA opportunity with Stanford. [/quote]

My kid was rejected REA from Stanford a couple of years ago. 1600/4.0.

Rd — accepted to MIT and Harvard.

We are in Massachusetts so we are pretty sure it was yield protection. They knew my kid would be accepted by MIT or Harvard and would go there.  Yield matters for rankings. Stanford brags they reject the perfect kids …. Because they know the perfect SAT/GPA are going to have choices and are not going to yield as it’s not ED.

So I really want to encourage those whose kids were rejected this year to tell your kids to not give up hope. Apply to the Ivies and/or MIT. Good luck! [/quote]

HYPSM do not yield protect. They’re the only schools who can admit who they want and don’t have to worry about yield. I know a Regeneron finalist who got deferred from HYP SCEA  and accepted RD to all the top colleges including the one deferred at (MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton) EXCEPT Stanford. Not many get into all HYPSM. Usually rejected or WL by at least one.

Stanford (and other top schools) reject plenty of perfect or near perfect stat kids every year who end up getting into a peer school (HYPM). Congrats on your kid getting into Harvard and MIT. I’m sure they are amazing and would have excelled at Stanford too. But they didn’t get rejected from Stanford because of yield protection. [/quote]

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