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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Sorry, your kid was not yield protected. I know quite a few NE kids who got into Stanford and went there over Harvard. I think from the NE they are looking for kids interested in humanities because most of the kids that went to Stanford from my kids school were non--STEM. CA is already very strong in STEM they can get instate kids for that.[/quote]

Is Stanford that strong in humanities? When I think of Stanford, all I think is tech and startups.[/quote]
It has some of the best humanities departments in America. Just closer to Silicon Valley than New England so people don’t hear about it.[/quote]

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