<p>25 students from one school ! Havent seen that honestly. Maybe some feeder private school …Again the common data set speaks for itself [Stanford</a> University: Common Data Set 2012-2013](<a href=“http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/2012]Stanford”>Stanford Common Data Set | University Communications), 94% of the incoming class are in the top 10%
Again there are outliers probably like Data10 here…and I am not denying that.</p>
<p>^^Dont forget, Stanford does take home equity and other investments (non liquid) cash into consideration. I know a lot of parents have taken loans since they may be making 150K+ but in regular jobs (not business earnings)…and when you combine (an uncertain job market) that with home equity and some bank savings, they do not want to drain that to pay the 50K (EFC) every year. So yes, parental loans is very common. You can see that in last years acceptances…(students got a shock once they realize the ‘full need and students graduating with no loans’ essentially means parental loans…)</p>