Stanford vs. Yale

menloparkmom
Sun, 06 Apr 2014 17:45:56 +0000

“Harvard and Princeton gave excellent financial aid, Stanford did not, and I have yet to hear back from Yale. I’m hoping some matching will be done.”
1]Have you asked the FA offices at schools that offered less to reevaluate their awards based on your acceptances elsewhere?That is the first thing I would do.
2] It is not so easy to get to or around SF without a car. Their is a Caltrain station about a mile from any housing on the Stanford campus ,and you will need a bike to get around campus and into Palo Alto, which has a very lively restaurant and bar scene.
3] Students on the Stanford campus are really spread out , so you wont get the “residential college feel” of Yale there.
Over 40% are engineering majors, and many are expressly interested in starting up tech companies either while in college or afterward in SV.
There are NOT as many of these type of students or these kind of non STEM type of activities at Stanford as you might wish-
“I enjoy the arts immensely - going to concerts, seeing plays, and just generally associating with people interested in these things.”