Anonymous
10/25/2015 19:17
Subject: Stanford
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Huh? So Stanford might not be sufficiently focused on undergraduate education compared to what other school? Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, MIT, Caltech? If your child can get in to Stanford she/he is a serious candidate for admission anywhere. On what planet are you on that you think your child might not be well educated at Stanford? Maybe you should insist they go instead to an intellectual powerhouse like Regent or BYU or Liberty?
The major difference between Stanford and the other elite schools is that there is a serious Division I athletic program, so there are a good number of future professional athletes mixed in with the future Silicon Valley nerds/future billionaires, lawyers, doctors, and academics. Because of the combination of serious jocks and misogynistic geeks and perfect California weather, the bro/frat quotient is super high compared to the other elite schools.
Was that comment really necessary? Sorry you got dumped by a great Stanford guy back in the '90s, but really....
Have you read the articles about the dysfunctional faculty, violations of workplace policies, etc., in connection with how the Stanford Business dean was having an affair with a professor at the same time he was trying to get her husband out of the university? And Stanford's provost (#2 administrator) apparently looked the other way. Various women employees also came forward to complain about the B-School Dean and to raise hostile work environment complaints at the Hoover Inst. Stanford's great in many ways, but seems to have a big blind spot in this area.
It looks like the B-Dean caught his pecker in a wringer, and the administration pretty much ignored it.
Anonymous
10/25/2015 17:35
Subject: Stanford
I did not go to Stanford, but I went to another school with lots of nobel laureates and prestigious faculty members. I loved it there, but I would never judge a school on the basis of those facts. The number of nobel laureates really does not have any effect on the typical student. As they look at colleges, kids should consider the reputation but also look at where they'll be happiest and most successful as students. The two smartest kids I know passed on the Ivies to go to Swarthmore and Amherst, and it turned out to be a great decision. Those top schools are all terrific, but fit really matters.
Anonymous
10/25/2015 15:44
Subject: Re:Stanford
Anonymous wrote:Perhaps they are mostly from the DC and/or East Coast area.
Nope, plenty of people who are originally from the west coast. If cutthroat competitive isn't an issue on the West Coast, why do you think there is such a big suicide epidemic at the two Palo Alto high schools, Gun and Palo Alto High?[/quote
Actually, it is largely Gunn.
Anonymous
10/25/2015 15:39
Subject: Re:Stanford
Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure Stanford doesn't have a super active Greek life?
Wrong!