<p>Some things i've heard about Stanford:
Palo Alto is really really boring
laid-back atmosphere
HUGE campus, hard to get around</p>
<p>However:
i bet the town where i live is even more boring
and i'm used to needing a car to get EVERYWHERE</p>
<p>What can students/faculty/whoever add to these?</p>
<p>Also, someone said that a 2230 is needed to get in, but what about ACT? I got a 34...</p>
<p>DEFINITELY not sure i'll get in, but i might as well try.</p>
<p>isn't LA close-by?</p>
<p>Lol. LA is in the south of California. SF is in the middle-north. It would be like a four hour drive, maybe more maybe less.</p>
<p>Yes, Palo Alto is boring, but there's so much to do on campus that you'll rarely feel the need to leave. About the atmosphere, the students seem laid-back, but they work very hard, hence the "duck padding furiously under-water" analogy.</p>
<p>LA is a good five hours away, I think. </p>
<p>The campus is big but certainly not too big to be a hassle. A lot of students have bikes.</p>
<p>or was it san diego... i remember seeing some large city around there.</p>
<p>oh wait.. maybe that was berkeley.
GAH.</p>
<p>okay, screw this. mapquest is failing me.</p>
<p>how many upper classmen and sophomores have cars at stanford? are they needed that much to get around to san francisco and things?</p>
<p>there is no required SAT/ACT score.</p>
<p>nah, San Diego's in the south as well. I think you mean San Fransisco - it's about 45 mins by train from campus.</p>
<p>Wow... I don't thnk I've seen so much bad information in one thread before... Ha. </p>
<p>Anyway, no, there is no "required" SAT/ACT, but the average does tend to be relatively high. </p>
<p>San Francisco is 45 minutes away, San Jose is about 25 minutes away.</p>
<p>LA is at least 6 hours away... San Diego is at least 8 or 9.</p>
<p>As for a car, from what I understand, it is nice to have the freedom of having one, but the Marguerite Campus Shuttle/Caltrain/BART is a decent enough way to get around the Bay Area.</p>
<p>ABronzan's information is right. (I live in San Francisco.)</p>
<p>Berkeley is closer to San Francisco - it's about a 30 minute BART ride.</p>
<p>34 is a great score. I got in with a 33, I know people who got in with lower.</p>
<p>Also, LA is a six hour drive, minimum. California's a big state. You might want to look at a map before you get here... I thought San Diego was in the north-western tip until 3rd grade. :-P</p>
<p>Cars are nice. I'm hoping to have a car next year. Biking is great until you want to go to Mountain View for dinner. Or Safeway. Or the real movie theatre. Or possibly take a non-Stanford dance or karate class. </p>
<p>As for how many actually have cars, I really don't have a clue. Maybe 30-40% of upperclassmen? That might be shooting for the moon though. You tend to see cars wherever you go, but not hundreds of them.</p>