<p>I am still (only very little) licking the wounds from my waitlist/rejection from my top choice school, Stanford. I'm headed over to Cornell though for physics on a Cornell Scholarship, so wateva. My question really concerns the graduate school admissions. How difficult is it to gain admission to Stanford for either physics or engineering for graduate school? I was reading that their acceptance rate for that is like 35%! Could I count on (with reasonable grades, GREs and reasearch stuff) having a more than excellent shot at my dream school for graduate work? My dad went there for his PhD, as is trying to convince me that I should have waited to go there for grad school anyway. (I wan't to go now, though.) Just wondering if the pool is self-selective enough that Cornell's name and connections would actually be of little help to me. I know it's early to think about this, but I would be curious to get an idea of just how selective Stanford's grad programs are compared to their undergraduate.</p>