Anonymous
06/03/2023 16:55
Subject: What is Stanford like?
Anonymous wrote:Stanford doesn't have SoCal weather it has NoCal weather, which I believe is notoriously grey and rainy.
uh, no. It is in the silicon valley which can be hot and dry, not like coastal SF which is the cold and gray you are referring to.
Anonymous
06/02/2023 19:28
Subject: What is Stanford like?
They’re both Mission revival. Taco Bell’s mostly dropped the design, the mission bell is a pun on the founder, Glen Bell.
Anonymous
06/02/2023 18:52
Subject: What is Stanford like?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s not laid back
There are more weirdos that go there than hypm
Anarcho-libertarians that don’t grow up
The campus feels like it’s a Taco Bell
Lots of grifters and scammers
Campus feels like a Taco Bell! I grew up in the Bay Area, was born at Stanford hospital, my mom worked at Stanford, and I’ve never heard this comparison, but it’s somehow so true!
This doesn't strike you as slightly racist? It is the architecture of Mexico/Spain, no?
Anonymous
06/02/2023 12:03
Subject: What is Stanford like?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Stanford doesn't have SoCal weather it has NoCal weather, which I believe is notoriously grey and rainy.
You are thinking of San Francisco. Palo Alto’s weather is practically perfect.
Ok thanks.
Anonymous
06/02/2023 11:44
Subject: What is Stanford like?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Stanford doesn't have SoCal weather it has NoCal weather, which I believe is notoriously grey and rainy.
You are thinking of San Francisco. Palo Alto’s weather is practically perfect.
+1 The peninsula weather south of SSF is gorgeous. I used to live there. Truly hard to beat, and I'm originally from SoCal.
Anonymous
06/02/2023 11:35
Subject: What is Stanford like?
Anonymous wrote:Stanford doesn't have SoCal weather it has NoCal weather, which I believe is notoriously grey and rainy.
Umm…no, I went there.
Anonymous
06/02/2023 11:17
Subject: What is Stanford like?
Anonymous wrote:Stanford doesn't have SoCal weather it has NoCal weather, which I believe is notoriously grey and rainy.
You are thinking of San Francisco. Palo Alto’s weather is practically perfect.
Anonymous
06/02/2023 11:16
Subject: Re:What is Stanford like?
Anonymous wrote:Is there any college that doesn’t get bashed on DCUM?
Yes. But I think with Stanford, for a lot of people who went there, there is a real sense of loss over what it had become. This is true to an extent of other elite schools as well; the current admissions process and the tenure process has homogenized the T10s so the personalities that made them distinct have noticeably faded. With that loss of individuality comes a sense of loss. For some schools, it is sharper than others. For instance, Stanford is a bland facsimile of what it used to be (alum here). Meanwhile my impression is that Princeton has better retained some of what made it unique. Yale on the other hand had also lost some of its character.
Anonymous
06/02/2023 11:14
Subject: What is Stanford like?
Stanford doesn't have SoCal weather it has NoCal weather, which I believe is notoriously grey and rainy.
Anonymous
06/02/2023 10:44
Subject: Re:What is Stanford like?
Is there any college that doesn’t get bashed on DCUM?
Anonymous
06/02/2023 08:31
Subject: What is Stanford like?
Anonymous wrote:DS is thinking about applying to Stanford REA. We know it’s a long shot as an unhooked candidate (full-pay white male from W school), but it’s excellent for CS and he’s allured by the laid back CA culture and weather. Anyone have a recent grad?
stuck up rich kids mostly
Anonymous
06/02/2023 01:36
Subject: What is Stanford like?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s not laid back
There are more weirdos that go there than hypm
Anarcho-libertarians that don’t grow up
The campus feels like it’s a Taco Bell
Lots of grifters and scammers
Campus feels like a Taco Bell! I grew up in the Bay Area, was born at Stanford hospital, my mom worked at Stanford, and I’ve never heard this comparison, but it’s somehow so true!
But what does this mean???
I've never been to campus, but have been to many Taco Bells... not sure I understand!
I think they are referring to the Mediterranean/Hispanic architecture and I fully agree which is why I didn’t apply there for law school!
Many people, myself included, love that style of architecture.
+1 I love the Med architecture. Hate the ugly colonials here in the DC area. And the weather... sigh.. you can have a beautiful garden year round.
Palo Alto is gorgeous. I used to live around there.
But, I do think that area has changed a lot in terms of the types of people. It was a lot more interesting back in the 90s' early 2000s. Now, it's been taken over by tech bros.
California arch isn’t real med architecture — it looks out of place after going to med countries
Hence why multiple posters have said it gives off Taco Bell vibes
DP. It’s “Taco Bell” because it’s a fake pastiche of “Mediterranean” & Spanish colonial style architecture. Compare it to the older part of Santa Fe, for example.
💯
Santa Fé has 100x the vibes and aesthetics of Stanford and Palo Alto
Anonymous
06/02/2023 01:11
Subject: What is Stanford like?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s not laid back
There are more weirdos that go there than hypm
Anarcho-libertarians that don’t grow up
The campus feels like it’s a Taco Bell
Lots of grifters and scammers
Campus feels like a Taco Bell! I grew up in the Bay Area, was born at Stanford hospital, my mom worked at Stanford, and I’ve never heard this comparison, but it’s somehow so true!
But what does this mean???
I've never been to campus, but have been to many Taco Bells... not sure I understand!
I think they are referring to the Mediterranean/Hispanic architecture and I fully agree which is why I didn’t apply there for law school!
Many people, myself included, love that style of architecture.
+1 I love the Med architecture. Hate the ugly colonials here in the DC area. And the weather... sigh.. you can have a beautiful garden year round.
Palo Alto is gorgeous. I used to live around there.
But, I do think that area has changed a lot in terms of the types of people. It was a lot more interesting back in the 90s' early 2000s. Now, it's been taken over by tech bros.
California arch isn’t real med architecture — it looks out of place after going to med countries
Hence why multiple posters have said it gives off Taco Bell vibes
DP. It’s “Taco Bell” because it’s a fake pastiche of “Mediterranean” & Spanish colonial style architecture. Compare it to the older part of Santa Fe, for example.
Anonymous
06/01/2023 19:56
Subject: What is Stanford like?
It's in the failing state of California
Anonymous
06/01/2023 19:49
Subject: What is Stanford like?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My daughter, who's white, quit CS during her first year to do political instead. She got great grades but found the culture and department to be stressful and alienating as a woman from a low-income Midwestern background. Her best friend, Asian American from CA, stuck with CS but took 6 years to graduate and enjoyed her English and Classics classes a lot more. Of course, it all worked out; DD got into a T14 law school and best friend is a Product Manager at FAANG but neither enjoyed college very much.
PP with the unhappy Black daughter here. Yes, “neither enjoyed college very much” really resonates — the happiest students at Stanford tend to be either the Greeks or the ones who are happy with the competitive, fast-paced, and achievement-oriented culture.
And the athletes! My son and his teammates had a blast at Stanford and have gone on to do well in a variety of fields, as have their friends from other teams. Both the general alumni network and the athlete one are very strong.
PP here. Yes, the athletes are quite happy too — they’re a tight knit group.
Stanford is one of the places where the recent athletes don't seem to do quite as well professionally though. There are wonderful exceptions but it was too bad when I was on campus how concentrated athletes, especially in sports like football and basketball, were in certain majors. What is Science, Technology & Society anyway?
I am an alum and I disagree with this. Their alumni athletes do very, very well, probably because they tend to be excellent students too. In some ways they fit the current Stanford mold well: exceptionally competitive and exceptionally project management oriented.
The academic profiles of Stanford's revenue-generating or close to revenue-generating sport athletes also don't stack up well with the Ivy League athletes in those sports, so it isn't shocking they might not do quite as well. Science, Technology & Society has been big in football for a while. The athletes have a lot of academic support though, which Stanford doubled down on after some trouble with the Lopez twins.
Guys like Andrew Luck and Christian McCaffrey have done better than just about anyone in their years too
Why would the academic profiles of Stanford's revenue-generating athletes "stack up well" against the Ivy Leagues? Stanford is recruiting to win a national championship in football, basketball and baseball...while Ivy Leagues have absolutely no illusion they will ever win a national championship in those sports (even Princeton was surprised they were in the Sweet 16...Penn made it to the Final 4 in 1979).
Duke historically for men's basketball...well let's be honest, there really were no academic standards other than the absolute minimum. Up until the NBA changed their rules, nearly the entire starting 5 only attended Duke for 1 year and then jumped to the NBA...and that was understood and tolerated even when they were recruited.
I bet if you compare the stats of say Ivy League lacrosse teams, you might find them reversed compared to Stanford.
Why does it matter that much? Everyone knows Stanford is a D-1 school and no one really thinks its recruited athletes are, on average, as smart as Ivy League athletes. But they still stand to benefit from a Stanford education and capitalize on the connections they've made and the alumni network.
HYP athletes are very smart. The one's at the bottom-tier Ivies like Columbia and Cornell? Not so much.