<p>don't you just love stanford? im actually concerned about how much i like this school, incase things dont pan out the way i plan. i often just lurk on their website seeing whats new, ive watched their 18 minute informational video so many times. its becoming an issue. AT LEAST i get to live vicariously through you guys this year since im only a junior. anyone else have this loving feeling?</p>
<p>yeah...it's my dream school..but it's far away (li live on the east coast) so that's my only reservation</p>
<p>yeah me too, i live in nyc so basically its all the way on the other side of the continent for me. it would take an equally long time for me to get to london by plane ( i do a lot of flying to there) as it would to cali. so sad, so sad. i still love it, im willing to make the leap.</p>
<p>Yeah, seriously, it's the love of my life. I actually live right next door, so it's always been a huge part of my life. I wear the attire, I go to their games, I eat there, I buy my books there, I write my school papers from books I've checked out from the campus libraries. (If they only knew how much money I've infused into their economy by bookstore and lunch expenses I'd probably be in automatically, haha.) I have a lot of friends that go there. It's not just a dream school, exactly, it's my community, and I would love more than anything to be able to study there as an undergrad. I just can't express the connection I feel with the place, and I'm sure that this is my way of appreciating it - we all love Stanford in our varying ways. For me to be rejected, which is a sad likelihood, would be like being kicked out of my house and banished from my hometown forever. Even so, I'd still love it. Everyone cross your fingers while you give a round of applause. Stanford rocks! Good luck...</p>
<p>What exactly do you guys like so much about it? Is it just that it's Stanford? Something specific?</p>
<p>the whole atmosphere, the fact that the brightest kids go there and no one makes a big d, the weathers better than the east coast, it has a gorgeous campus, it has the best atmospheres of both an ivy league and a state school. its just awesome.</p>
<p>What about the atmosphere exactly?</p>
<p>everything that followed that statement.</p>
<p>im from singpaore and i lOVE LOVE LOVE stanford. i went there for a summer course coz i was pretty sure i'd love it from all that i read about it and all the students i met that went there. and i just love it. its not about the name, i suppose thats a secondary bonus if i get in, though I'm quite likely to be rejected. The whole atmosphere is just happy! and I love the campus and the students and everything!</p>
<p>Yea, stanford is an amazing institution and the atmosphere is great, which all of you have mentioned. This atmosphere is just really inspiring, and stanford makes you feel as though you are in the best institution in the world, that's what i felt when I was there during summer taking their regular courses.</p>
<p>dreamer, did you go to summer high school college?</p>
<p>..this thread title reminds me of the movie I HEART HUCKABEES, which was so awful that it was painful to watch. </p>
<p>Sorry I have have nothing more useful to add here!</p>
<p>oh no! i never saw it but i had faith in it bc i love the actors. sad, sad/</p>
<p>i went to JSA (Junior State of America) which isn't a Stanford program, but it is held at the Stanford campus. What about you tenniscraze?</p>
<p>I went to high school summer college :)</p>
<p>I went to high school summer college :)</p>
<p>qvdp - let's write your story in your essey. I think you are 100% in... or may they think you are mad?... :) :)</p>
<p>I <3 Huckabees was fantastic. But I won't say or think "You just didn't GET it" because that's stupid Matrix-junkie-haughtiness. But I loved it... and it made Jason Schwartzman so much hotter (weird, I know).</p>
<p>Jason Schwartzman should have never left Phantom Planet (the folks who sing "California" on the theme song of the OC) He was the drummer.. that is a hot bad.</p>
<p>How many of you love Stanford because it's Stanford and how many of you love it because it's a really good match for your personality/interests/etc.? I've spent SO long just saying "I want to be able to get into whatever college I want to go to" that it seemed that was all there is to it... but now the question is where do I want to go? What place is really a good match for me? Stanford tries to appear to be the perfect place for everyone in it's marketing material, but what if it's not? What if it's not right for me? I know that it's an amazing school with diverse students, blah, blah, blah... but is it still possible that I just really wouldn't fit in? I'm not like some social outcast who can't talk to anyone... Just, I don't know. Any encouraging thoughts/opinions?</p>