At what point (#) in the rankings can one rely on objective stats for admission?

<p>I don’t have a problem with the URM accepted from our school at Stanford - they all had acceptable stats and either legacy or sports. It just bugs me that no top student had ever been accepted last I looked. It’s okay, but I would never recommend that a student from our school fall in love with Stanford. My son applied because he’s a comp sci kid. However he did such a miserable job with the extra essays, he deserved to be rejected. No sour grapes as far as he was concerned. He ended up with a great experience where he ended up and had other good choices. Our school is large enough that Naviance works well for most schools, but as always, your child may set the new low point for a school, I know my younger kid set a GPA low point for a couple of schools, though his SATs were very good for those schools.</p>