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<p>Very interesting, I have 2 questions - what is the sample size? Over the past say 5 years, how many kids applied and were rejected at Stanford, AND, secondly, why? has anyone questioned why? Does Stanford think the kids are going to Harvard or MIT instead, so they don’t bother accepting them?</p>
<p>It is strange to me to hear those stats, because in our small area (total population in 2 counties of about 400,000 tops), there are probably 25-50 Ivy caliber students (that is kids with the gpas and the SATs and the ECs) each year, half of those don’t apply to any selective schools, but the acceptance rate of the other 10-20 is pretty high, probably at least 50%, maybe even 75%, and they go to a wide variety of schools - I know of all the Ivies except Cornell, Stanford, MIT, etc. I don’t know of any university that particularly “shuns” any high school. Maybe it is a geography or novelty thing - it is so rare for someone to apply to Stanford, that if he makes a good case , he gets admitted.</p>