<p>But if he is looking for advises for which one to apply early then it is a different story since Stanford is SCEA. Will you wise people advise on this?</p>
<p>And, I basically agree with this: “They fail to see the full painful reality that such schools are taking 8% of the applicants, and almost all of the applicants are top 1%. And double that painful reality if you’re Asian.”
However I think the 1% should be changed to 10% because Stanford’s Common Data Set has it: “Percent in top tenth of high school graduating class: 94” We don’t know how many applicants are in top 1%.</p>