<p>I live in New Jersey, and I would be very surprised to see anyone get into Stanford from here. It is way harder than to get into HYP, for many reasons. One of the kids I know, number 3 in the school, got rejected from Stanford, also from Harvard and MIT, got in Penn and Columbia. Compare him with others (one in HYP, 2 in Y, and 20+ in ives), he is much stronger, but with bad luck.</p>