<p>cardfan and JHS, two informative posts by well informed posters.</p>
<p>InvisibleMan023, I think I know what you’re asking, maybe. You’re wondering is it a hook that your school hasn’t sent anyone to Stanford ever.</p>
<p>I don’t know exactly what the answer is but my opinion is that it helps for getting into colleges to come from a good school. Don’t read more into that than I mean. A good school can be a good private school or it can be a good public school but there are other public schools that aren’t as good.</p>
<p>I don’t think the schools want to penalize the students that come from the schools that aren’t as good, but it is very difficult for those students to rise to the level of the students coming from really good schools. It’s just because there are so many applicants, it becomes a question of standing out and your school won’t stand out except in the sense that it has never had a student accepted to Stanford before. It’s a hook in a way, but I don’t know.</p>
<p>But they want to give everyone a fair shake as much as possible so if you have the credentials, the grades, the test scores and the really high class ranking then you very well could get into Stanford. Good luck!</p>