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Test policy: Required.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1510\u20131580, ACT 34\u201335. Average enrolled GPA 3.94 (unweighted, 2024-25, as published by the college).","Cost: about $13,807 a year on average with aid, $87,833 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $124,080 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $1,185,572 ahead with aid, $889,468 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Science ($214,907); Cognitive Science ($131,650); Mechanical Engineering ($117,072).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 4% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 63% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Aid pledge published by the college for 2026-27: families earning under $100,000 pay nothing; families earning under $150,000 pay no tuition; aid packages carry no loans; the college meets full demonstrated need.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Stanford University: 121, 673 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Harker School (11.3 per class year, 34 over 3 class years, Classes of 2023, 2024 & 2025); Menlo School (10.0 per class year, 30 over 3 class years, Classes of 2023-2025); Harvard-Westlake School (9.0 per class year, 9 over 1 class year, BY THE CLASSES OF 2021-2025, counted column \"CLASS OF '25\"). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/stanford-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Stanford University: 6, 13 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Lyc\u00e9e Fran\u00e7ais de San Francisco (1.0 per class year, 3 over 3 class years, Classes 2022, 2023, 2024); The Chapin School (0.8 per class year, 4 over 5 class years, 2022-2026, counted column \"Admitted\"); National Cathedral School (0.7 per class year, 2 over 3 class years, 2023-2025). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/stanford-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/stanford-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":3212},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":11092}],"full_price":87833,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":13807,"npc_url":"https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/how/calculator/index.html?tab=net-price-calculator","tuition_in_state":65910,"tuition_out_of_state":65910},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":124080,"median_6yr_after_entry":102887},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":13,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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