Amherst to stop offering legacy preference in admissions

ucbalumnus
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:57:16 +0000

1NJParent:

However, Stanford’s “second look” may be significant in the following sense: Stanford seems to do everything possible not to give a typical applicant “a second look”. Stanford’s standard practice is to reject most of its REA applicants, rather than to defer them, and to give them “a second look”, in the RD round, unlike some of its peers.

Maybe Stanford is just being honest that many of the non-admit EA applicants have basically no chance of admission, so it delivers the rejections early, while deferring only the few non-admits who are in the borderline zone. Other colleges may defer even no-chance EA applicants out of politeness or whatever, even though they are not going to be admitted.