“I did graduate school at Stanford”
californiaaa,
GRADUATE schools have COMPLETELY different admissions parameters from US UG schools.
In Graduate school, there is NO pressure on admissions offices to have a balanced class- either ethnically, geographically, internationally, and they can also ignore the need to have as close to a 50% male, 50% female ratio, % of pell grant vrs full pay, etc, etc.
They can accept who they or their professors want to based on their own criteria and can ignore many factors that go into UG admissions decisions.
Oh and BTW- DS who went to a UG U that was NOT considered to be anywhere near the top 20, is now completing his PhD at Caltech- rated above Stanford among most academics.
I mention that only to show that WHERE a student in the US goes to UG school is NOT as important as the qualifications of the student himself. And there are hundreds of US colleges that fully prepare their students for top Graduate schools.