<p>TrinSF,</p>
<p>While I do know quite a few Stanford grads (I lived in Silicon Valley, too!), they are in my generation, not recent graduates. So I will defer to your assertion that recent Stanford grads are not in fact, generally ambitious, driven and anxious to start their careers.</p>
<p>My nephew just graduated from Stanford, and he took a semester during his undergraduate years to study abroad, not post-graduate.</p>
<p>I still hold to my opinion that if it were me, I’d go to Stanford. My view is likely colored by the fact that I took out student loans to finance my own education.</p>