@googledrone, that’s more than I had. I matriculated at Stanford back in 1979. There was no Internet with detailed school descriptions, no paid visit days for accepted applicants. I was from the Boston area, and while Stanford had a general reputation as “the Ivy of the west”, no one that I knew had gone there or knew much specific about it. Flying out to California to visit was never an option. But I picked up the Stanford admissions bulletin and decided pretty quickly that it was the place for me - there was clearly a huge difference in spirit and a freshness from the Ivy leagues that I knew. My first real exposure to Stanford was getting off the orientation bus for freshman week, and my experience was pretty much what I expected, and I never had any regrets.