As I emerge from application season, I’d like to share a few college visits from a fall trip. First up: Stanford University.
A few takeaways from my campus visit:
- With 7,645 undergraduate students, Stanford is a medium-sized research university on 8,180 acres of land, including beautiful trails through the surrounding foothills. I enjoyed my favorite hike through these foothills to “The Dish”, a radio telescope built in 1966 and still used to this day.
- Not sure what you want to major in? When applying to Stanford, students are not applying to a major or program but instead applying to the university as a whole. Stanford students are encouraged to explore what interests them academically and have two years to declare a major. As our tour guide emphasized, there is no pressure to decide on a major early on, even engineering majors have time and freedom for exploration in their academics.
-At the time of my info session, Stanford had just announced that it is remaining test-optional for the class of 2024.
