<p>Your background and stats are great, but (and it’s amazing how few people accept this), Stanford is ALL ABOUT THE SPORTS!!! To succeed SCEA at Stanford you’re hook HAS TO BE A SPORT in which you compete at the State or National level. Stanford believes – more than any other top school – that the kind of psychology that leads one to be top in a sport is the kind of psychology they want to promote among their student body. Brown, on the other hand, could care less about sports, so if you have only one EA shot, and you aren’t an athlete, make it Brown.</p>