Student Profile
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- Class: Alum
- Major: Biology
- Gender: M
- High School: Fieldston
- Transfer Student: N
Big Picture
Stanford was great. Despite the fact that it's pretty mid-sized there's a plethora of different activities and niches to immerse yourself in and no lack of opportunities. The down side of Stanford is that compared to other colleges at its level the student body, although brilliant, tends to be quite vanilla and surprisingly anti-intellectual. The up side is that there's tons of low hanging fruit in terms of really interesting opportunities if you want to do Stanford funded adventures, work with eclectic and top-notch faculty and just expand your horizons. For instance, Stanford funded me to go to the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, Yellowstone National Park, the Galapagos and I was able to study in Monterey and on a 135' tall ship for a month.
Academic Life
The academics are fantastic. There's an unfortunate bias against the humanities, but the upside is that humanities professors are thrilled to have you as a dedicated student. The faculty is great on the whole and the selection of interesting classes is overwhelming and wonderful. One can take almost any class in any department in any year if one is willing to argue their way in. Pre-med classes are cut-throat, what else is new?
Student Body
The bulk of students are pre-professional, apathetic and wealthy. That being said, there are tons of interesting people and a moderate, but fun, counter culture. It's known as having a cliquey campus and that's true to the extent that people break off in different social groups, but the student body is wholly unpretentious and to use a term many would describe themselves with, "hella chill."
The Best Things
faculty hot tub
The Worst Things
apathy
