Only top high school students get into the under-graduate departments, and, "if university students are graded on a 4.0 scale, then those who can get into grad school at Stanford are all 3.9," says Chang Fu-kuo.
陳超乾也表示，在他來之前，國內華智電腦公司總經理、史丹福材料科學博士陳錦河就告訴他，想在史丹福念書不容易，「陳錦河說他在史丹福六年，沒有一天睡眠超過六個小時」，陳超乾指出。菁英主義如果大學畢業生的成績滿分為四，能進史丹福研究所的學生幾乎人人是三．九。