Changed the subject as this has nothing to do with the
objectIdentifierMatch issue previously reported.
As far as debugging your problem, I suggest you examine
logs to determine what's going here. Enabling ACL logging
would likely be particular informative.
The only curious thing I see in your post is your comment:
I am a member of both ldapadmin, and supervisor. Still,
with this setup, I cannot bind as either of them
This implies you are not authenticating as yourself but as
cn=supervisor,cn=applications,dc=stanford,dc=edu
or
cn=ldapadmin,cn=applications,dc=stanford,dc=edu
Or maybe you are authenticating as yourself and assuming
one of these identities.