<p>“I noticed many of you comparing the different locations, Chicago to San Fran/Palo Alto.
Maybe a little more information would help you all advise me?”</p>
<p>You probably wont see much snow. You will bike a lot because the campus is 8000 acres. Climate is pretty nice year round.</p>
<p>You will encounter Olympians, International/national athletes in different sports in your dorms. Your dorm might adopt specific sports to cheer because of the dorm mates playing such sports. You will find no sport is unimportant at Stanford because points in all of them lead to the annual NCAA director’s cup which Stanford routinely wins.</p>