It seems to me that the SAT results of the applicants are so good, they can't only use SAT results to select students. When Stanford rejected me for undergrad

It seems to me that the SAT results of the applicants are so good, they can't only use SAT results to select students. When Stanford rejected me for undergrad years ago, they essentially said not to feel so bad because thousands of those who were rejected were valedictorians, had perfect or near perfect SAT scores, etc..