<p>Just curious. Up there with Emma Watson choosing Brown, I’d really like to know, and it probably says a lot about what type of school Stanford is. :)</p>
<p>I’d imagine lots of coverage/speculation would have taken place around the time she matriculated during her dad’s term. Can anyone come up with some articles/links?</p>
<p>How about, also, (a) a boy she had a crush on was there, (b) it’s not Washington-obsessed in the way the Ivies are, and (c) it’s layout and location make it possible to have security with a much less obtrusive daily presence.</p>
<p>I can’t for the life of me remember where I read this, but I remember hearing that she chose Stanford because it was a change of pace from the east coast and what she already knew.</p>
<p>How about, also, that Stanford offered everything Chelsea could want in a university, with all the pros of its peer schools and few of the cons, and she was astute enough to recognize that? : )</p>
<p>There is an alleged quote to her in the book The Gatekeepers, where she said she chose it because she wanted a West Coast experience because she had spent her life in east. Had she been from the west coast, she probably would have gone east.</p>
<p>This was also reported in the newspapers at the time she went off to college. She chose between Stanford and Yale - where she had double legacy.</p>
<p>^I think lots of Stanford students qualify for NMS. Too bad all we get is the $2500 one-time award these days–doesn’t make much of a dent in the cost of attendance.</p>
<p>So I’m picking up my D on Palm Dr. from her Stanford internship this summer. This was right before the time that C was getting married. A pro tennis tournament was going on on campus and when I pull up to the end of Palm I see a bunch of black SUV’s. I pull over into the loading zone, and some secret service looking guys in suits run up to my car and tell me I have to move. They have earphones in their ears. I point to my D who is walking up to the car and ask if I can stay until she gets in. They agree and say that’s fine. I wonder what that was all about. I thought at the time that C had pulled a fast one and was getting married at Stanford’s church.</p>