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Apparently you mail a letter to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions with strong language referring to FERPA.

Even easier, you just submit a help ticket online (and they included copy-paste text templates)

If you're a Stanford student. I wouldn't want to try that for other schools.

Why not?

Because you have no idea if it'll work when you go through that system or be escalated to the right people, and you may not have access to such a system in the first place.

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