<p>“Stanford places less emphasis on standardized test scores and other more objective factors”</p>
<p>I am not so sure about this.</p>
<p>There are different groups of admits at Stanford and each group is expected to have a different set of attributes.</p>
<p>The athletes are elite and are expected to bring home the gold in whatever sport they are in. Some of them will be admitted even if they barely meet the NCAA academic requirements (some, not all).</p>
<p>There will be first gens, internationals etc, who are expected to be good not have extremely high scores.</p>
<p>Most of the rest are expected to have extremely high scores. I know several kids in 2016 batch with perfect or near perfect scores. These are all academic admits who will perform very well anywhere and several of them were admitted to Harvard. They also keep the test score averages respectable for Stanford.</p>