<p>Would Stanford hold against me the fact that my older brother (by one year) turned it down for another college?</p>
<p>I think that would be dastardly. But I have no idea.</p>
<p>no. and how would they necessarily know that he was your brother? i doubt they match addresses and last names of past applicants that didn't enroll to current ones.</p>
<p>don't worry.</p>
<p>Sometimes the younger brother has better judgment than the older brother (or the other way around ;) ), and I think every admissions officer knows this.</p>
<p>Yeah, they probably figure that it's NOT that your family has a blood-grudge against Stanford... and that you and your brother are probably quite different (and hey, what younger sibling wants to go to the same school as the older one, anyway?)</p>