<ol>
<li>The campus</li>
<li>The Stanford name value (prestige)</li>
<li>SLE</li>
<li>Excellence across every academic discipline</li>
<li>A strong orientation toward the future: Stanford is all about “What’s Next”!</li>
<li>A great climate that supports fitness (and allows students to sunbathe while studying in March and April)</li>
<li>Course selection: 1,500 undergrad courses, countless more grad-level ones to take</li>
<li>Interdisciplinary majors: only Stanford has symbolic systems, MCS, humbio, etc.</li>
<li>Proximity to San Francisco, San Jose, the Bay, the ocean, and a drive from Tahoe, Yosemite, etc.</li>
<li>The happiness of the students</li>
<li>Excellent sports programs that produce Olympians</li>
<li>Huge variety of research opportunities available to undergraduates, and professors that reach out to students to let them know about those opportunities</li>
<li>Superb, accessible faculty across the board</li>
<li>Talented, motivated peers from all over the world</li>
<li>Lake Lagunita - it’s actually filled this year!</li>
<li>Introductory Seminars (introsems, <15 students, average size of 10), small classes in general</li>
<li>Athletic facilities</li>
<li>Superb return on investment</li>
<li>Generous Financial Aid</li>
<li>Free Admission for Students to Football Games.</li>
<li>An undergrad experience so rewarding that even the prospect of being the NFL’s top draft pick didn’t entice Andrew Luck to leave Stanford a year early</li>
<li>Quality undergrad housing (with a huge variety), guaranteed for 4 years</li>
<li>SLAC - the longest linear particle accelerator in the world</li>
<li>Video lectures, i.e. having coffee with a friend during CS lecture or not having to get up at 9am, instead watching the lecture that evening on your computer (1.5x speed)</li>
<li>Subs with “dirty sauce” at Ike’s Place in the engineering quad</li>
<li>Tasty veggie eats at Ricker</li>
<li>Research funding: $5 million per year, more than any other school</li>
<li>the LSJUMB!</li>
<li>Very effective freshman roommate-matching system, utilizing extensive input from incoming students, that integrates well-designed algorithms with human evaluation. Result: lots of happy freshmen with compatible roommates.</li>
<li>Getting to take classes at the business/law/med/education schools</li>
<li>Study abroad (so many interesting campuses)</li>
<li>Hopkins Marine Station</li>
<li>Studying (okay, checking out sun-bathers) in the Oval</li>
<li>Dance Expos, featuring (often very attractive) students showcasing their, um, cultural heritage</li>
<li>The fruits on trees</li>
<li>The multitude of student organizations spanning just about everything imaginable</li>
<li>The collaborative working environment</li>
<li>The fact that famous people show up regularly (Joseph Gordon-Levitt came yesterday!)</li>
<li>The fact that everything is in central campus (no separate campuses for the med school, law school etc)</li>
<li>Complete array of academic and tutorial support services always available in any subject (freshmen have academic and writing tutors living in their dorms as well)</li>
<li>Jazz nights at the CoHo.</li>
<li>People don’t get an attitude or assume snobbery when someone says s/he attends Stanford, unlike for HYP</li>
<li>More socially egalitarian</li>
<li>Watching lots of excited ProFros logging in to accept their offers of admission during Admit Weekend.</li>
<li>The Stanford Chaparral (the second-oldest continuously-published college humor magazine in the country) and the Stanford Flipside</li>
<li>Incredible internship opportunities during summer and the school year</li>
<li>Career fairs throughout the year with loads of companies from everywhere looking for Stanford students</li>
<li>Overseas seminars during the summer</li>
<li>The Dollies</li>
<li>BEAUTIFUL Spanish architecture</li>
<li>An awesome common app supplement</li>
<li>Splendid nature, especially in the eucalyptus groves and the Arizona Cactus Garden.</li>
<li>Fountain hopping</li>
<li>Tahoe Ski Trip</li>
<li>Great weather year- round</li>
<li>The Bender Room in the Green Library</li>
<li>Free stadium food on the meal plans</li>
<li>Lots of dining options through the campus</li>
<li>Lots of school Pride</li>
<li>The Marching Band</li>
<li>Late night snacks at the Axe and Palm</li>
<li>No tax and 10% discount when you purchase Cardinal dollars</li>
<li>Full Moon on the Quad</li>
<li>Frat parties</li>
<li>Pizza My Heart in Palo Alto</li>
<li>Getting thrown in the shower at midnight on your birthday</li>
<li>Great RA’s</li>
<li>Great Resident Faculty (RFs)</li>
<li>Very friendly, attentive and always trying to please dining staff</li>
<li>Palm Drive</li>
<li>Stanford Football games and tailgating parties</li>
<li>The Big Game against Berkeley</li>
<li>Living amongst so many high achievers, and not just academically</li>
<li>The great sense of balance on the campus. A real work hard, play hard mentality</li>
<li>Distinguished faculty, with 2nd most membership at U.S. national academies, only behind Harvard</li>
<li>The only university in U.S.A with all professional schools (business, law, education, medicine, and engineering) ranked in top 5</li>
<li>Arguably the most innovative university in the world</li>
<li>The mega of information technology, most connections to Turing award, the ‘Nobel prize’ in computing</li>
<li>Arguably the most well rounded university, with top 5 departments across the board</li>
<li>Current staff has most Nobel prize winners in the world</li>
<li>most national medal of science winners by faculty members, #1 in USA</li>
<li>Super start-up culture: GOOGLE, YAHOO, H-P, CISCO, SUN, and NETSCAPE were all founded by Stanford people</li>
<li>Stanford has changed the world through technology inventions, such as RADAR, LASER, internet protocol, DSL, microprocessor, GPS, satelite dish, and gene cloning</li>
<li>the Mayfield Fellows program and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program</li>
<li>Placing first in the Director’s Cup for overall athletic excellence 17 times in a row (this year it’s on track to win it again), the most individual championships (465), the second-most team championships (102) and the most in the past 25 years, 35 varsity sports, tons of club and IM sports, and great year-round weather to enjoy them</li>
<li>The extremely collaborative nature of the students</li>
<li>Caltrain’s proximity to the campus</li>
<li>The Stanford Mall</li>
<li>The Wheelz program </li>
<li>An awesome array of themed dorms to choose from: 1/3 of Stanford’s 80 houses are themed</li>
<li>Stanford has had the most generous alumni of any US university for several years running, attesting to their success and their affection for their alma mater</li>
<li>Stanford and its partners are bringing free, state-of-the-art, interactive education to students everywhere through <a href=“https://www.coursera.org/[/url]”>https://www.coursera.org/</a> </li>
<li>Forward looking and risk taking attitude</li>
<li>Bio-X ventures</li>
<li>Hoover Institutute</li>
<li>SLAC</li>
<li>Stanford + Berkeley+ Silicon valley = the undisputed world capital of information technology</li>
<li>Stanford + UCSF + Berkeley = the well spring of biomedical technology</li>
<li>Ethnic diversity of students!</li>
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