Other ppl from your school?

turtle
Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:51:07 +0000

Stanford does not officially set quotas on number of people admitted from any given region or school. The adcoms will definitely not be like “hmm, 3 from this school applied, but we don’t want to accept more than 2 from any given school, so let’s only look at the 2 more qualified ones.”

However, I do think being the ONLY student applying from a school, or especially a large region, will increase your chances a little bit. For example, I bet if only a couple students applied from Wyoming one year, and they weren’t quite up to par with other applicants (but still somewhat competitive), at least one would be admitted so Stanford could say they have students in all 50 states.