<p>^Thanks, shayonsaleh!</p>
<p>Chrome, one man’s hottie may be another man’s meh, but IMO there are <em>many</em> great-looking women of all types at Stanford. One of my favorite pastimes here is admiring the beauty of women from a wide range of cultures. And I’d say overall our student body is more attractive than the NE schools.</p>
<p>Thank you, Zenkoan and Shayonseleh, for the clear answers regarding math 51H.</p>
<p>I have two general questions. First, as an incoming frosh, I can’t get classes until VERY late, and one that I want is almost full as of last night. Does Stanford have a “waitlist/crashing” system for filled classes (and how does it work) or should I just give up if the course is listed as full by the time I can register?<br>
Second, I need to find a campus job for about 10 hours a week–is there a centralized location/job board where I ca submit an application/request, or do I need to go to every library/office/lab individually?<br>
Thanks. And BTW, am I the only one who’s so giddy with excitement that I sometimes wake up in the morning and momentarily wonder “did I REALLY get in??!!??”</p>
<p>Chrome:</p>
<p>Very attractive: 9%
Attractive: 41%
Meh: 34%
Unattractive: 13%
Blargh: 3%</p>
<p>This is super subjective. I remember going through the Facebook freshman year with some friends and 1/13 girls stood out for looks (aka very attractive). Considering that often a photo is worse than the real thing, 1/11 girls probably are very attractive. The real question for me comes between attractive and meh. For me, I treated both as 1s on the binary scale (good looking enough to have a fling with). It’s tough to distinguish the two past that, as both flirt the borderline of pretty. </p>
<p>Good luck! Remember a lot also depends on what the distribution for guys is.</p>
<p>Regarding physics: Their intention is that you take the 41-43-45 sequence starting in the winter and finishing fall of sophomore year. The reason, or so I was told, was so that people who came in with enough AP credit to skip 41 and 43 could take 45 right away in the fall. This is the first I’ve heard of people taking them out of order (starting with 45), but if you can do it, you can do it. Like in most Stanford departments, physics prereqs are not enforced.</p>
<p>Regarding teaching: 41 is being taught by Pat Burchat, who I never had, but friends say she teaches well. I’m not familiar with the instructors for 43, 45, 63, or 65. 61 will be taught by Leonard Susskind, which means it will be very, very, very difficult. On the other hand, you get to learn mechanics and special relativity from one of the founders of string theory, which is pretty cool. And he really enjoys teaching, so he’s quite helpful outside of class.</p>
<p>On the math side, Leon Simon is teaching 51H. He’s probably the best prof you could ask for in that class.</p>
<p>Maybe I should have asked this in another general Stanford thread. But the 3 kids who got into stanford that I know - 1) valedectorian with a 4.7 gpa + 15 AP + president of 4 clubs + school president + news editor + few city/county citizen honorships aka…supergal 2) valedectorian with > 4.5 gpa, symphony conductor in a major city at 17 years, 2 varsity sports, dance champion 3) international student with super IB grades, dad is a multi-million company owner…</p>
<p>So…here I am - middle class CA, so far A student, taking tons of AP (to maintain my ranking) junior, not much leadership skills…but do the swim team (not great, just as an EC), no awards, no entreprenearships…academically I may cut it…but weak in sports, no music, again no leadership…So…should I just forget stanford next year unless I majically turn my (current) junior year into a leadership/win competitions etc? Or part of me is like - even if I were to get in, would I like to be with all these people with all these accomplishments and would that be more of a self esteem downer for me…(assuming by chance they even put me in an admit pile 1.5 years from now).
Guess I digress - but question is -how does one fit in, or they just dont get in…?</p>
<p>^Most students I’ve met aren’t intimidated. They’re too often doing there own things to worry much about their peers’ accomplishments. That said, I think with close friends I get jealous sometimes, but a little jealousy is never too pernicious. If anything it can motivate you.</p>
<p>That said, I do know a few people turned off by the high achievement of the student body. Should these people have been admitted? Stanford admissions isn’t perfect, and if given hindsight they would probably make some different decisions. That said, these people have exclusively been freshman and sophomores (which makes sense, as I’m a rising junior). Hopefully by the end, everyone has found their niche. </p>
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I don’t know, would you?</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply. I am just being honest with myself as I know I won’t have the athletic or arts talent to cut it. Will see how the next year shapes up and what I can achieve (academically and EC) through this year and next summer.</p>
<p>hey everyone, i was looking over the IM and club sports pages on the stanford website and was wondering how intense are they (like skill level required, commitments, etc.). i’m looking specifically at ping pong and badminton. thanks!</p>
<p>^Don’t know about those programs specifically. However, in general club sports are somewhat intense, depending on the sport. For most, you won’t be practicing every day like high school in season. But practices will be pretty intense from what I’ve heard. </p>
<p>Intramurals are as intense as your team wants them to be. A lot of the IM sports (basketball, ultimate, football to name a few) are broken into divisions, so you can kind of pick which intensity you want to compete at. Like any sport, games can get pretty intense. We had a punches-thrown fight with the other team in basketball. Another time in basketball my teammate dislocated his ankle. In flag football the other team had a guy go to the hospital with a broken nose. It’s sports. Things happen.</p>
<p>I’m willing to wager there have been no punches-thrown fights in IM ping pong. ; )</p>
<p>"Guess I digress - but question is -how does one fit in, or they just dont get in…? "</p>
<p>People here are very low-key and chill. You usually don’t find out about a person’s achievements unless you really get to know them/get nosy. Half way through the year I found out my friend won the Intel science fair. <- Stuff like that.</p>
<p>It’s the Californian attitude I believe. Very laid back. You’d be amazed how much partying and fun goes on here.</p>
<p>I’m staying in Cedro in Wilbur… I was wondering if there is a community kitchen and fridge/freezer so that we can cook food?</p>
<p>Yessir. I can definitely say there is a kitchenette and community kitchen because I lived in Cedro freshman year. Great dorm, by the way.</p>
<p>This isn’t the most “sexy” topic- but do students need a color printer or would a black and white only be just fine?</p>
<p>I rarely printed in color but to be honest it probably depends more on the person and the major than anything else. There are plenty of color printers on campus (at least one in every dorm and library) that are pretty cheap ($0.10 per page) and so if a student needed to print in color they could just use that. I just used those printers for the first 3 years of undergrad before buying a printer (plenty of other people do the same).</p>
<p>I’d ditto that a color printer isn’t necessary. Buying a printer isn’t necessary at all, actually. I have one and I like to use it to scan/copy stuff (notes and photos, etc since I’m kinda an organization freak) and to print in my room quickly or when I’m feeling especially lazy, but most of the time for just printing, I just print to the school printers. I don’t often need to print in color and when I do it is usually easy to find a color printer (although I have had a couple bad experiences with this - dead color printers in the cluster and Meyer the night before a big project was due… grrr).</p>
<p>how much work would you all say these classes require? like in terms of pset and just general reading/studying.
chem 31x
physics 61
math 51 (just psets time for this one)
cs 106x</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>What’s your background like going into those classes?</p>
<p>5 on ap chem for 31x. 5 on calc bc, physics c both parts for 61. took multivariable calc and some diff eq already. studied the levandosky book for linear algebra already. 4 on ap comp sci a. thx</p>