<p>At my school, 3 people with 2300+ SAT, strong ECs, etc. got rejected or waitlisted at Stanford, but his one arrogant scumbag with a 2130 that nobody in our class likes got accepted (he flat out rejected by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Dartmouth, and Columbia). Most people think he made up some extraordinary ECs that were hard to verify, because he was not involved in a single club on campus and considered community service to be below him. </p>
<p>Point is, Stanford seems to have lower standards when it comes to academics and tends to base their decisions on other factors. I think the fact that Stanford does not interview worked in this guy’s favor.</p>