<p>^^There is no way to know why it happens exactly, but I’m just curious. Was Stanford their first choice?</p>
<p>Every top college tries to protect their admit yield a little bit. Many east coast students, when given the choice of Stanford and HYP, will choose HYP because East Coast culture and other pressures tell them to. I saw that trend in my area. About 10-12 students were admitted from my county and the one next to us, but only 3-4 of us will be attending. When you compare that number (even though it is a VERY small sample) to the overall yield of seventy-something percent, theres a big difference. Students make similar choices all around New Jersey and in other states in the Northeast as well.</p>
<p>This is just a hypothesis: i think they may want to be careful with the students they admit from the East Coast. They don’t lower their standards for admission, but I think they look for some subjective things that we just can’t see in applicants. Many of them are still cross-admits to one or more of HYP (including myself), but there’s something else.</p>
<p>Of course, there are many students from outside the East Coast who are admitted by HYP and not Stanford…so I may be completely wrong. But there are still some subjective factors that we just don’t know.</p>