<p>There have been a variety of unsourced statements about this that may or may not trace back to the admissions office.</p>
<p>There is no comment about this question (that I could find) on the admissions web site. There is an online statement from admissions dean Richard Shaw in the minutes of a faculty meeting last year, that the review of an applicant’s SAT scores includes looking to see whether the scores increase and plateau, or fluctuate up and down. That’s quite different from just “superscoring” the report. So it would be good to see a clear statement of Stanford’s policy from an identifiable source.</p>