<p>Just a couple questions from a hapless c/o 2009...
1- Does Stanford have class rankings?
2- How big are Brenner dorms?
3- Are pets allowed?
4- How easy is it to get involved in extracurricular activities as a freshman?
Thanks a lot.</p>
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<li>no. </li>
<li>Branner is just one dorm, it's 177 or so people, 164 frosh. </li>
<li>no.</li>
<li>really really easy. Last quarter I played ultimate frisbee, got involved stage managing a ram's head show, and became part of the staff for Dance Marathon 2005 (check it out at dancemarathon . stanford . edu... it's really really awesome. :-)</li>
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<p>If I'm not that into athletics, will I feel out of place at Stanford which is supposedly quite an athletics-based school?</p>
<p>Thanks, efilsiertaeht! Just a couple more things- how stringent is Stanford's alcohol/ tobacco policy and which IHUM do you recommend?</p>
<p>dreamer- absolutely not. I'm a theatre person, all out, majoring in drama, it's all i'm really at college for (besides some fun just to get something interesting out of it learning on the side) and I don't feel out of place at all. My roommate never attends any sports events and she doesn't have any issues, I could never play, but I started playing ultimate (not having played a team sport since I was 6) and got hooked cuz it's so much fun and really low key for the most part... don't have time for it cuz of theatre stuff next quarter, but it's SO awesome... and if you just go to a game, you might find you really enjoy spectating stanford sports. Waterpolo, volleyball and basketball are the games I find fun to watch (cuz we kick ass at the first two, and the student section for basketball is a blast :-D). </p>
<p>roisoleil- i posted on the alcohol policy in the drinking at stanford post- basically don't be drunk/have alcohol outside and you're pretty safe. Tobacco policy is 50 feet from buildings, which I believe is the same as california law.</p>
<p>and the IHUM I DON'T recommend is Freedom, Equality, Difference, unless you like reading philosophy and classics. (If it's offered... this was it's first year, and I don't know whether it was successful enough or not to make it back next year)</p>
<p>Thanks for the info efilsiertaeht!</p>
<p>I don't recommend Conflict, Cooperation, and Human Nature (mine) or Citizenship, which is arguably the HARDEST. I don't feel like I got a lot out of it and my TF was ridiculously hard on us. I will recommend the Art of Survival and Sex: Its Pleasures and Cultures. Many of my friends got A's easily in these IHUMs. There's also Thinking With Nature, which sounds horrible but it turned out to be easy too. Remember that your IHUM experience depends entirely on your TF and not the course itself.</p>
<p>What about the fine art department at Stanford? i want to be a painter, and so im debating between a pro art school and stanford....</p>
<p>i'm going to stanford, so clearly i'm a big fan, but a good friend of mine last year (who's a serious artist) got into stanford and brown. she ultimately picked brown because of its strong academic program, and because of its unique relationship with RISD right next store. so if you're into quality mid sized schools and still want strong fine arts, brown might be something to seriously consider.</p>
<p>If you are sure that you want to be a painter, a pro art school is probably a better choice. If you want a broad undergrad education, just in case the painter career does not work out, go for Stanford.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you're sure you want to be a painter, but you want to get a real education, too, or don't want to spend 24/7 in art class for four years (my friend got into the art institute of chicago and ended up deciding she really wanted to go to a 4 year college instead so she deferred for a year and is still deciding... always an option) I personally know I want to be a theatre professional, but I didn't want to do a conservatory, and I'm at Stanford. Not the most renowned theatre, but there's a lot of personal attention, and a lot of opportunities. I'd guess that the fine arts program is similar, but I couldn't make any guarantees.</p>
<p>hmm, rite now i really dont no if a painter is all i want to be..u never can b sure at 17 rite?!
anycollege '09 thanx for the brown tip, but im not applying anywhr else so...but is stanford that huge a school? iv never seen it. a friend of mine went to brown, and she thinks its waayy too small a community..</p>