<p>^^ Top 50% might be pushing it. If I were to be completely honest, the average Stanford student is probably a pretty good student, and the average Cal or LA student is probably not that great. </p>
<p>What Tyler might mean is that the average Stanford student need not be a ballistic intellectual. Whether the average Yale student is or not, I don’t know. But if I were to be objective, the students at my school who went to Harvard were probably the most intellectual of the ones who went to HYPS. The students who went to Stanford probably had something going for them, but it wasn’t something traditional that I could spot in all cases. </p>
<p>Nothing wrong with this. Plenty of ballistically intellectual students do go to Stanford and every other good school too.</p>