<p>I don’t think that’s true at all, lishnik21. </p>
<p>Many students from the West Coast want to head east for college, especially considering most elite colleges reside closer to the Atlantic than to the Pacific.</p>
<p>Penn is nowhere near Stanford in terms of any numerical measure other than US News’ deeply flawed rankings.</p>
<p>In terms of RD’s matriculation rate, Stanford is 55% compared to Penn’s 48, and that’s with Penn’s well-known and very public propensity to like students that specifically like Penn. Stanford accepts 13% of applicants compared to Penn’s 21% or so. The WSJ rankings, biased as they are, put Stanford at #4 and Penn a dozen or so places behind. </p>
<p>How can you justify associating Penn’s prestige/selectivity/whatever with Stanford’s?</p>