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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For what it's worth, if it makes anyone or their kid feel better, I am a legacy (parent went undergrad) to Stanford who did not get in but did get in to several Ivies and peer schools for which I had no connection/tie/hooks.

Granted this was 20+ years ago, but Stanford admitted the kid in my high school who spent a year studying abroad in another (at the-time "unusual") country in HS and had taught himself that language. Meanwhile, my bright-well-rounded-research-athletics-top-grades-top-rigor-leadership self  (I am not trying to be self-promotional, but truly) was admitted to several Ivies and Stanford peers but not Stanford.

So even legacy on top of the rest is not enough if they decide they only want to admit one kid from your senior class!

Also, my sense having grown up around the children of Stanford alumni (given my parent's college friends) is that it is very unusual outside of a very small number of high schools, for them to admit more than 1 student from a particular high school if you are outside of California. They admit very heavily in California.[/quote]

I’m a third gen legacy and I agree w/everything you said. High schools in CA will give you a better chance than similar schools in Long Island or NJ. [/quote]

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