[burger]

In February I interviewed a candidate for admission to LSJU who was a graphene fanatic and thought that Stanford was the world leader in researching applications for the stuff.  I googled "graphene Stanford", and this seems to be true.  He got rejected, and will probably be going to Manchester U, where the stuff was discovered, but is focusing mostly on manufacturing technologies (to date only a very small amount of graphene has been created, and at an understandably prohibitively high cost).  Yet another 4-5* recruit lost due to our high admission standards.....

This is why I stopped doing undergrad admission interviews for Stanford--it was too depressing seeing so many bright kids (many of whom surely had better resumes than I did as a high school senior) get rejected.

[burger]

In February I interviewed a candidate for admission to LSJU who was a graphene fanatic and thought that Stanford was the world leader in researching applications for the stuff.  I googled "graphene Stanford", and this seems to be true.  He got rejected, and will probably be going to Manchester U, where the stuff was discovered, but is focusing mostly on manufacturing technologies (to date only a very small amount of graphene has been created, and at an understandably prohibitively high cost).  Yet another 4-5* recruit lost due to our high admission standards.....

This is why I stopped doing undergrad admission interviews for Stanford--it was too depressing seeing so many bright kids (many of whom surely had better resumes than I did as a high school senior) get rejected.