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[quote=Anonymous]Stanford is a great school as I'm sure many other schools are.

Compared to the Ivies, Stanford is unique in that it is very successful at the highest levels of amateur athletics (within the last decade or so the basketball and football teams have been contenders for the Div I national championships, Stanford has won the Sears Cup for best college sports annually for years, every Summer Olympics alums and current students regularly win enough medals to be in the top 20 if it were a country).

As the genesis and epicenter of Silicon Valley and the tech/internet industry, Stanford is seen as much stronger in entrepreneurship/engineering.

Obviously being in CA, the weather is better, and more importantly, the culture of the school is a little more laid back.  That isn't to say students aren't highly motivated but there is less of a cutthroat directly competitive culture that is more prevalent in the Ivies/Northeast generally.

No school is perfect and Stanford has it's faults.  For instance, if you are absolutely set on your children going into Wall Street/investment banking then Stanford is a very good school to go to but certainly not as strong a network as perhaps Harvard or Penn.[/quote]

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