I'm sure you believe that there's something special about Stanford. Many people believe that. What I'm saying is that, in my experience, the belief doesn't hol

I'm sure you believe that there's something special about Stanford. Many people believe that. What I'm saying is that, in my experience, the belief doesn't hold up. If it were possible to reliably identify "academic superhumans" and concentrate them in one place, we'd have absolutely indisputable evidence of it. The fact that we don't suggests that perhaps your beliefs about how Stanford's admission practices correlate with quality of graduates may be mistaken.