First a few newsworthy items: Emmanuel Macron beat Marine Le Pen by 16 percentage points . Biden had 4.5% more votes than Trump in 2020.   Mind you, the electoral votes determine who becomes president. If Biden had 45,000 fewer total votes in the right proportion in Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin, Trump would today be president.  This is a percentage of only 0.05%. Similarly, if Trump in 2016 had 78,000 fewer votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton would have won the presidency.  A percentage difference of only 0.06%. While you sometimes need to appreciate the context of what politicians and their aides say, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reported after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv that  Russia is failing . So on to my topic of the day, read this  Quora  entry to give you some hope about applying to and getting admitted into Stanford University: Ivy Lee Studied   Bachelor of Science in Microb