Once upon a time, high school seniors who were not admitted to Stanford University just resigned themselves to spending their next four years of life at UC Berkeley. But now, the fallback to actually attending Stanford University is pretending to attend Stanford University? Seriously, if Stanford doesn’t admit you, then attend your fallback school, get great grades, and try again as a transfer student. If that doesn’t work, you have another shot when it’s time to attend graduate school. However, pretending to be a Stanford student isn’t going to get it done unless it’s all about style, not substance.