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[quote=Anonymous]What was their experience like?

I graduated from Stanford in Engineering three decades ago and loved going to school there. I was top of my class in HS at a very good CA public high school and was nowhere near the brightest kids at Stanford, but I would guess top half. I was nowhere near as accomplished as some of the kids you hear about getting into this kinds of schools nowadays, with their ISEFs, internships, etc.

My HS junior DC will have had 4 years of CS by graduation and is interested in majoring in it.
We recently read this article in nymag, and DH said the school sounds like it's a complete hell now because it sounds like every detail of your life there has to be engineered to impress somebody (TBH I was kind of shocked about the Viennese Ball thing--I participated in that and we never thought in a million years that it was a way to network). He thinks there is no way DC should bother applying:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/how-to-network-through-stanford-university.html

Wondering what your kid's experience was like if it was very recent.[/quote]

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