<p>Is Stanford as selective as Ivy League schools?</p>
<p>In one word, yes. It's also ranked nationally higher than many of the Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>along with harvard, yale, princeton, and mit, its one of the hardest schools to get into in the country</p>
<p>Yes, it is hard to get into. It's raked four only behind Princeton, Harvard, and Yale.</p>
<p>To add the unstated facts, the other 5 Ivy schools are easier to get into than Stanford, some much easier. And Stanford is about the same as Yale and Princeton.</p>