<p>I’ll add a quick comment regarding the “big sports following”. My D is a freshman at Stanford this year and has been surprised about the LACK of a large sports following at the school. D has always been a big sports fan but has difficulty at Stanford always being able to find a fellow student to go to the occassional sports event that she’s interested in. So while Stanford consistently has the best overall sports program in the country, athletics certainly are not at the top of students lists of things today. And I totally understand that as Stanford students have SO much else going on. However for the student that enjoys athletics, there’s not a better university in the country to watch the number of highly ranks teams that Stanford consistently fields.</p>