Applications rose 7 percent from 34,348 a year earlier, Bob Patterson, director of admissions, said today in an e-mail.
Stanford, near Palo Alto, California, admitted 7.1
percent of its applicants for the 2011-2012 academic year. Admissions
officials had speculated that the tough competition to win a seat
combined with reinstated early acceptance programs at Harvard University
and Princeton University might have deterred some students from
applying to Stanford, Patterson said today in an interview.
"It's a little more than we anticipated," Patterson
said. "Stanford did very well in football and Andrew Luck was a leader
for the university."
Luck, the Stanford Cardinals quarterback and a
two-time Heisman Trophy runner-up, is considered a top National Football
League prospect.
Stanford, which opened in 1891, counts among its
alumni Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. president; Larry Page and Sergey
Brin, the founders of Google Inc., and U.S. Supreme Court Justices
Stephen Breyer and Anthony Kennedy.
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