<p>i attended the stanford seminar and, unfortunantly, i was not impressed. One alumni told me his reason to go was because "of the girls in bikinis". Now i know that he was just trying to be obnoxious and "funny" , but can anyone give me ANY insight on how the programs are at stanford--specifically the engineering building?</p>
<p>ONE more question is stanford single choice early action AND early action? or is it just SCEA because i really want to do just EA?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>SCEA and EA are the same thing</p>
<p>It is SCEA only.</p>
<p>A lot of people at Stanford feel compelled to work very hard on presenting a "laid back" facade. Don't be fooled by it. Most of the students are very smart, and work very hard. The engineering program is top-notch.</p>
<p>thanks on the insight</p>
<p>I disagree, nngmm. The "duck syndrome", aka the presentation of a laid-back facade, gets talked about a lot, but I think it's blown out of proportion. First of all, I don't think anyone feels at all compelled to appear laid-back. Second of all, I'm not even sure it's a facade for a lot of people. Yes, we work hard. We work very hard a lot of the time. But through all that, we maintain a chill attitude that's quite genuine.</p>
<p>I will admit, however, that you will not find that laid-back attitude at 2 in the morning the night before a torturous quantum physics problem set is due, for example.</p>
<p>I very much agree with Sly Si.</p>
<p>Stanford is not a campus of "girls in bikinis". In the warm months, you'll often see people reading outside, lying on a towel on the lawn, and occasionally the person will be a female in a bikini. Girls don't go to class in their swimwear, as far as I've seen. Girls look cute, but I feel that they take school seriously and dress accordingly.</p>
<p>The warm, friendly attitude at Stanford is not one I encountered when visiting other colleges. Students come from diverse backgrounds and almost all seem eager to meet others. We are honest about our workload, but Si's right; we "maintain a chill attitude that's quite genuine".</p>
<p>As far as engineering, US News ranks Stanford's graduate program in engineering as second in the nation only to MIT. Perhaps you can apply this to the undergraduate program as well with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>If you want to study at a school where you can meet new people and learn more about the world while acquiring a lot of knowledge in your field of choice, I definitely recommend Stanford =]</p>