<p>I may be guilty of giving people the benefit of the doubt, but perhaps she mispoke? I would not assume that her connotation was in fact that there is an income threshold to be crossed to attend Stanford or even that you, or anyone else on the basis of financial capacity, should be precluded from attending. As a Stanford FA recipient of almost 53k whose family couldn’t scrape up 40k a year by dropping necessities, let alone nicities, I find it hard to believe she actually meant that. I wouldn’t dwell on it. Just try to remember that you got in with the insane competition this year!</p>