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Acceptances
Where Meridian students actually got in — and what their applications looked like. Each record below is a real Meridian student, anonymized: their stats, their acceptances, and their finalized essay. Every acceptance shown is backed by a record in the student's own file.
How this page works — evidence and anonymity
Evidence first. An acceptance appears here only when a record in the student's file supports it — a decision document, a submitted application file, or the counselor's official outcomes tracker corroborated by the student's application materials. Outcomes we could not back with a record are not shown, even when a counselor remembers them.
Anonymized by construction. No names, no school names, no hometowns beyond a region, no contact or family details. Students appear as "Class of 2025 · Stanford University," schools as a general description ("public magnet academy in Orange County"), and every essay was read line by line and stripped of identifying details before it was included. Where a precise figure could identify a student, it was generalized or left out.
What you are seeing. Without an account, this page shows one student per university, with essays excerpted. A free account — the same one used by the Summer, College, Researcher and Competition searches — opens every record and every full essay.
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