--- title: How to Get Into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT (HYPSM) | InGenius Prep description: Marianna, a Stanford University Former Admissions Officer, on the difference between a competitive application and an admitted one. Tuesday, December 8, 8:00 PM ET. --- [Skip to content](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/igp-webinar-12.8.26-registration#main-content) ![InGenius Prep ](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white.png?width=1219&height=218&name=inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white.png) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Contact us](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/igp-webinar-12.8.26-registration#contact) [Contact us](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/igp-webinar-12.8.26-registration#contact) ![inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white.webp?width=202&height=36&name=inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white.webp "inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white") ![Marianna, Stanford University Former Admissions Officer](https://ingeniusprep.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Marianna.png "Marianna, Stanford University Former Admissions Officer") #### Stanford University Former Admissions Officer Marianna ## **How to Get Into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT**  December 8th  8 PM ET  Live on Zoom [Save My Seat](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/igp-webinar-12.8.26-registration#hs_cos_wrapper_widget_1770720095377) There is no shortage of advice about these five schools. Almost all of it comes from people who have never read an application for one. Marianna read applicant files at Stanford, and she answers the question families actually have: what is the difference between a competitive application and an admitted one. ### What You’ll Learn - **What Each Office Weighs:** Where these five genuinely differ from one another, and where they do not. - **Competitive vs. Admitted:** The difference between an application that holds up and one that gets through committee. - **What a Deferral Means:** For seniors, what it signals in practice and what it does not. - **The Two-Year Build:** For juniors and younger, what a candidacy for schools like these is actually made of. ##### MEET YOUR HOST ![Marianna, Stanford University Former Admissions Officer](https://ingeniusprep.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Marianna.png "Marianna, Stanford University Former Admissions Officer") ## **Marianna** ## **Stanford University Former Admissions Officer** Marianna reviewed and evaluated applicant files across domestic and international territories in the Stanford University admissions office, where her particular skill was identifying the parts of a file that separate a candidate in a competitive pool. She holds a BA in political science and a master’s in education policy analysis from Stanford, and a JD from Harvard Law School. She has also worked as a corporate attorney and at Teach For America, where she read applications, interviewed candidates and worked with the admissions team on recruitment yield. She comes to InGenius Prep directly from the admissions office, which makes her read on current trends unusually recent. **Where Marianna’s Students Have Been Admitted** Princeton · Duke · Cornell · Brown · Johns Hopkins · Carnegie Mellon · USC · UNC Chapel Hill · Boston College · University of Rochester Cannot make it live? Register anyway and we will send you the recording. ## Our Results | 2025–2026 Admissions Results Ivy League + Top 10 Offers ###### 201 Top 20 Offers ###### 384 Higher Ivy+ Acceptance Rate *vs.* National Average ###### 12.5x Top 30 Acceptance Rate ###### 87% Elite Offers Per Student ###### 4.37 © 2026 InGenius Prep. All rights reserved. facebook-f icon linkedin-in icon Twitter icon instagram icon --- [![InGenius Prep ](https://go.ingeniusprep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white.png?width=1219&height=218&name=inGeniusPrep-logo(Final)-white.png "InGenius Prep ")](http://www.ingeniusprep.com) 123 Main Street, City, State 11111 Copyright © 2026, InGenius Prep