Former Stanford officer dismisses Kemi Badenoch’s claim of medical school admission at 16
Questions are mounting over Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s repeated claim that she secured admission into Stanford University for medicine at age 16 — with experts describing the story as implausible and a former admissions officer flatly denying it.
Badenoch has said she got into Stanford “pre-med” on partial scholarship, but Stanford offers medicine only at graduate level and has no pre-med major.
The Conservative Party told The Guardian she “had not applied but had been offered the place by a number of US universities, including Stanford, on the basis of good exam results in US standardised tests” — a claim experts called “impossible.”
Jon Reider, who handled admissions at Stanford at the time, said: “Although 30 years have passed, I would definitely remember if we had admitted a Nigerian student with any financial aid. The answer is that we did not do so. O-levels would not have been sufficient, and we would have been very nervous admitting a 16-year-old.”
He added Stanford never offered partial aid: “If an applicant needed $30,000, we offered the full amount. There was no point offering less.” Other academics agreed, noting they had “never heard of any exemptions – not even for child prodigies or royalty.”
Despite this, Badenoch first told Huffington Post in 2017: “I had actually got admission into medical school in the US – I got into Stanford pre-med…” and reiterated in 2024 that her SAT scores earned her a partial scholarship.
Stanford’s official website makes it clear: “Stanford does not have a pre-med major.”
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