<p>aberdeen15,
You don’t necessarily have to visit before Admit Weekend. Just know that Admit Weekend doesn’t paint the best picture of Stanford. I thought it was kind of corny. However, it was a great place to meet other students trying to decide between schools. My advice (and most of my friends would probably agree with this) is to ask Stanford students everything and anything you have in mind. You’ll get a much more accurate picture of Stanford from the collective opinions of current students. </p>
<p>Based on your other post, I would say Stanford fulfills most of your interests to a fairly strong extent. In terms of cleanliness, I think it’s pretty clean, and one of my good friends from USC who stayed over one weekend noted that Stanford bathrooms were extremely well-kept compared to USC bathrooms. While I cannot personally comment on USC’s cleanliness, he told me this within the first minute of our conversation, so that kind of put it into perspective to me.</p>