“… Whoosh! Say goodbye to modern conveniences like online submissions. Forget about the widely accepted Common Application that lets anxious high schoolers apply to 20 private colleges at once. Step into a shabby tan shack on the Stanford campus, Bambi Modular, where the university complies with new disclosure rules by sharing bits and pieces of long-ago applications that date back to the age of paper forms and ballpoint pens.” …
Interesting how much things have changed. It was pretty different even 20 years ago (around 20% admitted) and 10 years ago (10-15%). There was an interesting article in the alumni magazine a year or two ago about the trend at Stanford and also HYP.
https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=66225
I notice the news release this year doesn’t mention percent admitted, although it gives the numbers to calculate it . . . wonder if the school is downplaying the low percent accepted so as not to scare off future applicants.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/new-admits-finaid-032715.html