<p>Statistically, it does help at Stanford. But in reality, I’d have to argue for the exact opposite.</p>
<p>In the pool of 5363 people applying SCEA, you have all the recruited athletes, legacies, and top-notch applicants who seem to assume they’ll get in. If your application doesn’t match or succeed theirs, I don’t think you stand a good chance. </p>
<p>The higher admission rate can only be granted to the fact that Stanford WANTS more of these poeple, not that you will have a better chance. And, being before the RD round, they tend to deny or defer more applicants because they don’t know whose in the RD or how many they’ll be accepting out of the RD.</p>
<p>And besides, Stanford is notorious for being ruthless in the SCEA…</p>