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you at stanford*

Let the brochure committee improve you.

Upload a selfie. Our imaginary committee will make you more marketable, more photogenic, and possibly someone else entirely.

The committee is on a coffee break.

Uploads open soon. Want to speed things up? Buy the committee a coffee.

One photo. Deleted automatically. The committee's decision is final.

Four exhausted grad students in hoodies at a library table at night, surrounded by laptops, energy drinks, and takeout. Your study group
The same table, laptops, and drinks, now in golden sunshine with four entirely different, radiantly smiling people in blazers. youatstanford.com After committee review
Synthetic example. No real grad students were improved in the making of this image.

Inspired by true events

Stanford already tried this. For real.

In September 2026, a real Stanford dining banner quietly swapped a real student for an AI-generated one. Nobody asked the student. We figured everyone deserves the same treatment, except you get to ask for it.

Left: the original photo of three students holding plates at a Star Ginger food stand. Right: the banner as printed, where the student in the middle has been replaced by an AI-generated woman.
Left: the photo. Right: the banner. Spot the committee's work. Image via The SF Standard.

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Recent committee decisions

A tired woman in a stained sweatshirt, taking a selfie in a car on a rainy day. The same woman in the same car, now glowing in golden sunlight in a navy blazer with a huge smile.
Applicant 0412: "I was just sitting in my car."
Committee: "Now you're sitting in your car aspirationally."
A bearded man in glasses and a flannel shirt in a dim kitchen at night. A completely different man in glasses and a navy blazer, beaming in golden sunlight.
Applicant 0413: "That's not me."
Committee: "It is now."

The examples are synthetic people. Your results will be different, and so, possibly, will you, at Stanford.