<p>JustOrdinary:</p>
<p>The data never went public because Stanford “wanted” to be in the same peer group as H, Y, etc. Rather, these are customary faculty senate minutes, all of which are posted regularly on Stanford’s site. This is the document I referred to above:</p>
<p><a href=“http://facultysenate.stanford.edu/2010_2011/minutes/10_07_10_SenD6388.pdf[/url]”>http://facultysenate.stanford.edu/2010_2011/minutes/10_07_10_SenD6388.pdf</a> (look at p. 20-21)</p>
<p>As you can see, it’s a compilation of statistics, and it demonstrates that, of cross-admits, the only schools that win a significant number of cross-admits from Stanford are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and MIT. Stanford didn’t release the data because they “wanted” to be in a certain peer group - the data simply reflected Stanford’s chief rivals in terms of admissions. As you’ll also note, this document addresses plenty of other topics - admissions was just a small part of it.</p>
<p>Given the audience intended to review this document, and the fact that Stanford customarily posts ALL faculty senate minutes online, I highly doubt this was a chest-thumping move. </p>
<p>If you’d like to review the hundreds of other faculty senate minutes Stanford has online, please feel free:</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://facultysenate.stanford.edu/Quick_Links/minutes_list.html]minutes_list[/url”>http://facultysenate.stanford.edu/Quick_Links/minutes_list.html]minutes_list[/url</a>]</p>