<p>That’s a load of foolishness. First of all who says Stanford doesn’t attract a lot of international applicants? I’m international and I applied and got accepted… I live in Trinidad with a population of roughly 1.3 million people and every year I’ll estimate that at least 20 people from this tiny little island alone apply to Stanford. Then there’s people from the rest of the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, countries in Africa, Central and South America etc. And this east coast/west coast talk is a lot of rubbish. What does living on one side of a country have anything to do with the intelligence of the students? And the same way that Stanford may attract less people from the east coast as opposed to the west, it seems logical that east coast schools will attract less people from the west than the east… (I don’t know if this is true but it makes sense to me)</p>
<p>In other words, leave your college counselor in her ignorance.</p>