<p>Different schools have different criteria for choosing students. Both Princeton and Stanford are mostly a crapshoot. This does not mean that one is more prestigious than another. There are far many more people who get into Dartmouth but not Stanford than the other way around and almost nobody (18% - [The</a> New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html]The”>The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices)) who would choose it over Stanford (because if it were more prestigious, wouldn’t you think they would?)</p>