<p>I don’t have much of an answer to this question, but from this link: [Contact</a> Your Admission Officer : Stanford University](<a href=“Page Not Found : Stanford University”>Page Not Found : Stanford University) you can see that AOs have different regions, so you can consider yourself “competing” against those regions which your AO is reviewing. Best of luck!</p>
<p>And I think maybe Stanford likes internationals… lets them put a higher percentage of internationals in their brochures.</p>