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Any Stanford alumns out there?

NorCalAthlete

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Whee. College. I'm currently trying to get my shit together to apply to Stanford as a transfer student next fall (applying in March, but can apply earlier). Not sure yet on a major (have several fields I'm very interested in) but definitely sure I want to go to Stanford above all others. I'm hoping there're some Cardinals on here who may be able/willing to help me polish up my essay and give me some advice / words of wisdom / sit down and have a beer and talk about the selection process or something. Every little bit helps right? Current students would be great to talk to as well.
 
What school are you at now?

Sorry, but people who go to Stanford pretty much know what they are going to study.
 
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stan23 said:
What school are you at now?

Sorry, but people who go to Stanford pretty much know what they are going to study.
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+1 Most of my colleagues who attended Stanford knew as high school students what they wanted to do with their lives. As a transfer student I am not sure if they will even accept you if you do not declare a major before hand even though cash speaks loudly. I'll ask a few colleagues at our shareholders meeting.
 
Do you really want to go to a university whose mascot is a tree? A friggin' tree!!!! And boasts the most irritating band in the universe :|
 
The tree is the band's mascot, not the university's. :nerd
 

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What a joke! They don't even have a mascot. OP you are better off transferring to De Anza College.
 
A few members of the family graduated from Stanford (all in Human Bio). They all loved it. I worked for Stanford for a while and I thought the campus and staff were great as well.

Are you dead-set on attending Stanford? What other options are you pondering?
 
I've got a Stanford hoodie that I picked up at TJ Maxx last year. Gets me plenty of conversation from our hawt engineering interns at work. ;)
 
stan23 said:
What school are you at now?

Sorry, but people who go to Stanford pretty much know what they are going to study.
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CSM (community college of san mateo)

KooLaid said:
+1 Most of my colleagues who attended Stanford knew as high school students what they wanted to do with their lives. As a transfer student I am not sure if they will even accept you if you do not declare a major before hand even though cash speaks loudly. I'll ask a few colleagues at our shareholders meeting.
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According to their admissions reps and tour guides, about 60% of new freshman and transfers are undeclared / undecided, and they don't make you declare a major until the end of your sophomore year / beginning of junior year. I'm debating between business / healthcare administration, psychology, or architectural engineering. Currently declared as business admin @ CSM.

Volcomism said:
A few members of the family graduated from Stanford (all in Human Bio). They all loved it. I worked for Stanford for a while and I thought the campus and staff were great as well.

Are you dead-set on attending Stanford? What other options are you pondering?
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Other options would be UCLA or possibly UCSB. Not too big on Davis, Chico, Berkeley, or Santa Cruz. I like the options Stanford provides, and as for cash speaking loudly 80% of stanford's students are on financial aid. One of its original tenets was to be a tuition free university.


edit - being that I've so far only completed a summer semester and am in the fall semester here, I wouldn't be able to transfer to a UC for another year or so while Stanford would allow me to apply now and start classes next fall.
 
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i had a sports scholarship there...that's as close as I got to attending.....

soooo, i'm no help...:twofinger












went to art school instead....:cool
 
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m_asim said:
What a joke! They don't even have a mascot.
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after all, that is the #1 criterion for selecting a university: followed by the bcs ranking of the football program and the ratio of beer bongs to nobel laureates.

oh, btw, hasn't stanford beat usc 2 yrs in a row now?
 
radvas said:
The tree is the band's mascot, not the university's. :nerd
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the university mascot, cardinal, is a color. not much better

the roots of the lack of mascot stem from a 1973 vote by the students, to replace the politically un-correct Indian, to become the Robber Barons. the administration, being a bunch of pussies, decided that no mascot was better than that. if they were the rober barons i'd have wanted to go there

NorCalAthlete said:
I'm debating between business / healthcare administration, psychology, or architectural engineering. Currently declared as business admin @ CSM.
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you really ought to choose a major, then where you want to study based on that. IMO, architectural engineering is the most useful one you are considering and cal poly SLO is probably a better school for that, though i haven't looked into it ever. for all it's prestige, stanford draws two types: fucking geniuses, and fucking morons with money (that are book smart enough to get accepted). by far, out here in the business world, i run across more of the latter.
 
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I think the Stanford Cardinal (tree) is a cool mascot. :cool

sincerely,

a UCSC alum (Nanner Slugs FTMFW!)
 
I applied (and actually got in) as a transfer student to Stanford. But, because I didn't follow their course requirements for my freshman and sophmore years, I would have had to start over. At ~$40k per year (not including scholarships), I couldn't afford to do it...

So, make sure you have your pre-reqs in order before you apply.

While I'd love to have a business degree from Stanford, it didn't matter where I went to school when I got out -- just that I had a degree. Of course, YMMV.
 
I couldn't go to UCLA anyway. Although I desperately wanted to as I grew up in southern California and USC is the school of the rich kids so I never was a fan of them. Alas, UCLA doesn't have a C.J. program so I'm "stuck" with CSEB. :laughing
 
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