<p>You would be right, firebird.</p>
<p>Stanford will never actually say how its likely letter program went, in terms of yield. It's also hard to extract any meaningful data from it because there's no control group to compare it to, unless one does year-on-year analysis. </p>
<p>But that being said, Stanford did take a few more high-placers in the big-name science contests than in most years, and, I think, got more RSI kids than in years past.</p>
<p>Those are the kinds of kids targeted with Stanford's likely letter program.</p>