The Chronicle of Higher Education
Bucking a Boastful Trend, Stanford Will No Longer Brag About Its Application Numbers
August 31, 2018
Stanford University (CA) said on Thursday that it’d had enough. The institution will no longer publicize top-line application numbers, it announced in a news release, starting this fall. In doing so, the institution said, it hoped to do its part to discourage an obsession over the competition for the lowest admit rate.