<p>Do you guys think that Stanford is reluctant to admit East Coast people.</p>
<p>I have seen some of the most amazing people get rejected. I think it has to do something with the yield rate....they think that we are not as comitted or eager to come to Stanford as Californians/West Coasters.</p>
<p>I LOVE Stanford, and will be applying Regular Review, but from the past admissions it seems that Stanford is really biased against East Coasters applying Regular.</p>
<p>Then again, I might be wrong. What do you guys think? It will especially interesting to see what other people from East Coast have witnessed from their high school acceptances.</p>
<p>Well, when 88% of all people who apply get rejected, it would be hard to make a specific regional assessment of this sort. But it is true that about 1/2 of Stanford's class is from California, a higher in-state number than many other elite schools.</p>
<p>keep in mind also that California is huge and more people from california apply, i believe the percentage that applies equals the percent of the class, so no, i don't think they have a prejudice. there are plenty of amazing people from california who also get rejected from stanford. the only possibility is that the admissions people may not be as familiar with your hs as they are with california high schools, but that can work in your favor too, depending.</p>
<p>so don't stress about what you definitely can't change. There is a bias in UCs, because those are public schools supported by california taxes, but stanford is private and doesn't have a bias</p>
<p>Yeah -- I have amazing friends from CA who are going to Harvard and Princeton, but didn't get into Stanford. Once you reach that level, it's just very very hard to get in, and every school has a slightly different spin on admissions, so you get some amount of "randomness."</p>
<p>As for Stanford's high (mid-40's) percentage of Californians, you might want to realize that CA is big enough to be at least 3, 4, 5 different states. I think people have done the math and found that the number of kids in the surrounding states that add up to California's size at, say, Princeton, is about equal to the number of Californians at Stanford. So no, I don't think there's some pro-California insitutional bias -- it's just that we're such a big state, and so many of us apply.</p>
<p>There's definitely no CA advantage. In fact, California's by far the most competitive state for Stanford admissions simply because of the immense number of applicants every year, especially SCEA. Don't let the 40% enrollment figure fool you; take CA's population into account, and the fact that Stanford's yield there is probably higher there than for other parts of the country. On the other hand, being from the East Coast won't help either. Northeast states are very well represented in college admissions, so there's only a geographic advantage from underrepresented states, such as some Midwest states.</p>
<p>my counselor had scare me so much, in fact she was discouraging me to apply at the first place. She was like you have amazing credentials...apply to HYP, Columbia etc. Don't waste your money by applying to Stanford as they never accept people from our school.</p>
<p>I guess then my counslor is the only one who has prejudice. :)</p>
<p>Regardless of the points raised, there is a reason about 1/2 of Stanford students are from California. They simply are accepting them that way. They could very well cut that number in halfand still get very high yields.</p>
<p>The idea that California is about 3, 4, 5 times as populated/large should only make the number of students at the school from California go from 2% (1 of 50 states) to about 6%, 8%, or 10% respectively. Simply put, they must be accepting a greater percentage of California students than those from other states for 44% to be from California.</p>
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The idea that California is about 3, 4, 5 times as populated/large should only make the number of students at the school from California go from 2% (1 of 50 states) to about 6%, 8%, or 10% respectively. Simply put, they must be accepting a greater percentage of California students than those from other states for 44% to be from California.
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<p>California has 36 million people out of 297 million in the country, which six times the average state's population, but that certainly doesn't mean Stanford should only have 12% of its students from California. If 50% of the applicants come from California, and 50% of the acceptances are California residents, and 50% of the freshman class is from California, then where's the bias?</p>
<p>"Don't waste your money by applying to Stanford as they never accept people from our school."</p>
<p>Just to let you know, there was a story at my school that I heard from my math teacher that this amazing student got rejected by stanford (i guess the entire science department loved him so much they all wrote his letter, not just the one he asked) and my old bio teacher, whose a stanford alum, wrote them to ask why. he was told that they only accepted people from my school for athletics, but i got in and DEFINITELY not on athletics :)</p>