Do not let anything discourage you from applying to Stanford!

cavilier
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:11:27 +0000

@iamtbh-Whoa, calm down there. I wasn’t trying to insult Stanford, and I didn’t mean to get anyone riled up. If it was construed as an insult, then I apologize for communicating poorly. As I said before, it’s all speculation. I never made any claim to truth, so it is redundant to use phrases like “conspiracy theories” and “unfounded.”

Even so, you can’t deny there is a lot of puffery about selectivity in college admissions, and [universities love using numbers to trump up their prestige.](http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Most-Selective-Admissi/22227/)