<p>Jo.Inc, where's Standford? :P</p>
<p>Well, I didnt even know where stanford was for the longest time (well, i was little) that is how much fame stanford has, people can recognize the name, but they dont know anything about it. (people think its in the northeast, like pton, harvard, yale etc.)</p>
<p>Haha no, I know where it is, I was just making a joke about his spelling of it.</p>
<p>I thought Stanford was an Ivy when I was little. And that it was on the east coast. Hahaha.</p>
<p>stanford is cool cause it's in an unincorporated area near palo alto i believe.. called "Stanford, CA"... can't confirm this, but the admissions guy said something about it.</p>
<p>When I was around 12 i always thought that stanford was an ivy league... i never knew about brown, penn, or columbia. i knew aout dart, cornell, and hyp... also thought mit was an ivy too.</p>
<p>most ppl DO THINK stanford is any Ivy, though.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>most ppl DO THINK stanford is any Ivy, though.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Nope. Maybe some of kids who haven't started looking into colleges yet might think that, but any adults who know much of anything about colleges know that Stanford is in the Pac-10 and that the Ivy League consists of only certain old east coast schools.</p>
<p>Yes, it's in Stanford, CA. When I was little I didn't know UPenn was an Ivy, haha.</p>
<p>Haha, coureur, where do you live? Adults here think Stanford is an Ivy and in the Northeast.</p>
<p>I didn't know where Stanford OR Harvard were located until I was in middle school, and I was never really familiar with the term "Ivy League" until 8th grade.</p>
<p>I wasn't familiar until two years ago. Silly me.</p>
<p>I think they should just slap the term Ivy League on Stanford already. They've proved themselves way more than some of the present ivy league schools.</p>
<p>No "label-slapping" allowed until they stop paying salaries to their athletes. </p>
<p>The overarching rule of the Ivy League is that financial aid should be paid only on the basis of need.</p>
<p>has it ever occurred to you people that stanford might not want to be labeled an ivy?</p>
<p>correur-you mean Love Story in Harvard? that was the most trite korean tv series i've watched. ....</p>
<p>jp, same here. i used to start with ..."bc, bu, .......et.c etc." then whisper the name(i'm not exactly the strongest applicant) in a shrug to avoid any "whoa". i mean, there's a gigantic difference between applying and being accepted! tons of ppl apply.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Haha, coureur, where do you live? Adults here think Stanford is an Ivy and in the Northeast.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>A better question is where do YOU live such that the adults in your neighborhood have so poor a knowledge of US geography, history, and college sports that they think that Stanford is in the northeast and in the Ivy League? Leland Stanford was one of the infamous "Robber Barons" of the US west in the 19th century and was also governor of California.</p>
<p>And folks, the Ivy League is not some academic club. It is a college ATHLETIC conference, like the Big-10, the ACC, or the Pac-10. Like most athletic leagues, it is confined to a certain geographic area - in this case the northeast. Stanford already belongs to an excellent athletic conference --> the PAC-10. It is geographically confined to three west coast states plus Arizona.</p>
<p>I love this thread.</p>
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Harvard's engineering departments are nowhere near the quality of Stanford's, and their science departments are comparable. The culture of innovation and technology transfer at Harvard is falling way behind those of Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley
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<h1>6 on my list of "Dumbest Things I've Ever Read about a College"</h1>
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Stanford did birth the New Economy after all.
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<p>And this would be #3.</p>
<p>The list "Dumbest Things I've Ever Read about a College" would, of course, be #1 on my "Dumbest and Most Inane Lists of All Time."</p>
<p>Support your claims and maybe you can them "render" them dumb. </p>
<p>Harvard's engineering can't even break the top 20. The New Economy is based right here in Palo Alto.</p>
<p>In the 2006 USNews ranking, the Harvard School of Engineering has risen to #20 out of 198 granting PhDs, which is not bad considering that it is 1/10 the size of the Stanford program, and necessarily has a narrower focus. It has a 12.5% acceptance rate, compared to Stanford's 35%, and Harvard admits have a higher average GRE score - 883 to 775.</p>
<p>this post in the stanford forum is a pretty touchy/sacry one: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=143280%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=143280</a></p>
<p>most kids i know at my school who consider themselves smart think that stanford is an ivy, although they tend to know its in california. weird. then they try to tell me that duke is also an ivy.</p>
<p>The higher admit rate is probably due to the high number of in-house admits. GRE scores are irrelevant. </p>
<p>The matriculation rate is what I'm most interested in.</p>