11-23-2022, 02:33 PM
https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges/
This is the Niche ranking of colleges. 1.) MIT 2.) Stanford 3.) Harvard
There are over 1,000 reviews of Stanford by students and alums. Stanford gets 4 out 5 stars for campus life which is the same as all the other top schools. I'm aware it's fashionable among a handful of students to say Stanford hates fun. I suspect they are in the absolute minority. Each year Stanford sets records for number of student applications. Something must be going ok.
WVB is the one sport I know about. There have been two students in WVB program history who left Stanford before getting their degree. One was a student from Michigan twenty five years ago who got homesick freshman year. She came back later in life to get a Masters from Stanford. The other was Logan Tom who left to play on the Olympic team and then professionally. She came back later in life to finish her degree.
All I hope is any fundamental changes to admissions be considered thoroughly and not be a knee-jerk reaction. There are too many good things happening on the Farm to screw things up. Admittedly this is the viewpoint of someone who enjoys football but is not a die-hard Stanford football fan.
One final random thought although it's not relevant today. I recall some time ago there was a year when no transfer students were admitted. Typically transfers were mainly admitted to fill out the diversity of a class depending on how many openings were available.
This is the Niche ranking of colleges. 1.) MIT 2.) Stanford 3.) Harvard
There are over 1,000 reviews of Stanford by students and alums. Stanford gets 4 out 5 stars for campus life which is the same as all the other top schools. I'm aware it's fashionable among a handful of students to say Stanford hates fun. I suspect they are in the absolute minority. Each year Stanford sets records for number of student applications. Something must be going ok.
WVB is the one sport I know about. There have been two students in WVB program history who left Stanford before getting their degree. One was a student from Michigan twenty five years ago who got homesick freshman year. She came back later in life to get a Masters from Stanford. The other was Logan Tom who left to play on the Olympic team and then professionally. She came back later in life to finish her degree.
All I hope is any fundamental changes to admissions be considered thoroughly and not be a knee-jerk reaction. There are too many good things happening on the Farm to screw things up. Admittedly this is the viewpoint of someone who enjoys football but is not a die-hard Stanford football fan.
One final random thought although it's not relevant today. I recall some time ago there was a year when no transfer students were admitted. Typically transfers were mainly admitted to fill out the diversity of a class depending on how many openings were available.