<p>Does Stanford allow sitting in on classes during campus visits?</p>
<p>Yes
I read somewhere that you should contact the department beforehand to double check on the particular class and location
And they ask that you get there early and introduce urself to the professor.</p>
<p>When my son and I visited last April, he was told by the admissions office to just walk over to the history department and see what classes were about to start, and ask if it would be okay to sit in. We did just that, and by chance, one of the classes he’d previously identified as being of particular interest happened to be starting in 10 minutes. He was able to audit the class. Lucky!</p>
<p>How can I get their schedule of classes during the summer? I’m planning to sit in on math classes.</p>
<p>I went to the math department’s website, and this is all I found:</p>
<p>[Department</a> of Mathematics - Stanford University](<a href=“http://math.stanford.edu/classes/class.html]Department”>http://math.stanford.edu/classes/class.html)</p>
<p>it doesn’t have the room numbers for some of them</p>
<p>We were told that normally the admissions department keeps a list of classes for prospective students, but that our visit was too early in the term for the list to be made. You could call admissions.</p>
<p>If you visit during admit weekend, I think they give you a list of classes to go see. Otherwise, I think most professors are completely open to visitors any time of the year. It will be easier to visit a bigger lecture type class - you can probably walk right in and sit in and no one will even notice, just make sure to be there on time. If it is a smaller seminar/discussion type class, you should just ask the professor beforehand to make sure it’s okay.</p>
<p>to get the schedule just go to the Stanford bulletin:
explorecourses.stanford.edu
and you can either search for a specific class of click on a department (eg Math) and sort by term offered (Summer or whatever) and it’ll show all the Math (or whatever department) classes for summer. Then if you click on schedule (right under the class description) you can see the time, professor and room of the class. It might also tell you if a class is a lecture (LEC), discussion (DIS) or seminar (SEM) so you know what you’re getting into when you want to go see a class.</p>