<p>Oh thats good to know. The floor plans for wilbur don’t show a wardrobe closet, only the Stern floor plans do, so I was a bit concerned.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply</p>
<p>Thanks a million, Fairlights! I just checked your link, and my daughter’s in SLE! She 's so happy! This will help her planning a lot!</p>
<p>im so confused what is pwr? My kid didn’t apply for the sle housing option so should we still be looking for something?</p>
<p>Stillwater, congrats to your daughter!</p>
<p>Dungareedoll, PWR stands for Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Stanford freshman can choose to be in SLE or IHUM and PWR. If you are in the latter, you rank your choices for IHUMs and then are assigned an IHUM course and a quarter in which to take PWR. Students later rank their choices for which PWR course to take when it gets closer to their assigned quarter. </p>
<p>Stanford will send out an e-mail covering all the info you need to know about IHUM and PWR this Monday, but if you want to read up in the meantime here is the introductory studies page: [Stanford</a> Introductory Studies (SIS) | Undergraduate Academic Life](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_sis.html]Stanford”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_sis.html)</p>
<p>Does anyone know the hours that the dining halls serve breakfast, lunch and supper? I was just wondering how easy it was for kids to get a bit to eat under the meal plan? Also when I went on the website the different dining halls mentioned the specialities they served, like thai food, vietnamese, indian and kosher. But what about a good ole american meal of roastbeef and mashed potatoes? The food seems very ethnic based which is great, considering the diverse student population but the school is American so where is that regular everyday kinda meal?</p>
<p>This PDF has a map of all of the dining halls and lists their hours of operation for 2010-2011; I can’t imagine it would significantly change for this coming year
<a href=“https://www.stanford.edu/dept/rde/dining/pdfs/stanford_dining-hours2010-2011.pdf[/url]”>https://www.stanford.edu/dept/rde/dining/pdfs/stanford_dining-hours2010-2011.pdf</a></p>
<p>Stanford is very proud of its diverse offerings and likes to talk/write a lot about their ethnic options, but there are ‘regular’ American options as well. All of the dining halls have different specialties and serve different food each day. If your student doesn’t like the food being served at one dining hall, they can always go to another or eat at one of the cafes on campus using meal plan dollars.</p>
<p>Thanks fairlights. I saw the dining hall site too and noted the hours of operation I just wasn’t sure if they were the same for the fall quarter.</p>
<p>Now that I think about it, many of the east campus dining halls (Stern, Wilbur, Branner and Manzanita) might have different times because of the opening of the huge new Arrillaga dining hall right in the center of that area!</p>
<p>Dungareedoll, the new dining schedule was posted today! There are a few slight changes to hours, usually about fifteen minutes to a half hour less on breakfast and dinner. The Arrillaga dining commons has much wider hours, especially for lunch time.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/rde/dining/pdfs/StanfordDining_hours2011-12web.pdf[/url]”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/rde/dining/pdfs/StanfordDining_hours2011-12web.pdf</a></p>
<p>Fairlights thank you so much for letting me know that the new schedule is up. The hours at arrillaga are fantastic. Makes me feel better to know that S can get a meal regardless of the hour of the day.</p>
<p>Thanks again for your help</p>
<p>Well, bumping this thread to year 2012.</p>
<p>My D just got into Stanford, and is trying to choose between Stanford and Dartmouth. We are planning to go to the Admit Weekend. Looking at the flight schedule from FL to SFO, I realize it will take 7+ hours and thus wonder if we should fly out on the day before or of the program starts. Would any current parent or student mind to tell us what the first day events are? I know the Stanford is still finalizing the schedule. But I assume that it will not deviate too much from the year before.</p>
<p>Last year we flew out the night before. I can’t recall the exact scheduling the first day, but I remember we had time to get our bearings the next morning before things kicked off.</p>
<p>I stayed at the Stanford Guest House which has a shuttle to the campus which works out well if you don’t want to to rent a car.</p>
<p>I would recommend getting there the day before. You and D will be separated for the weekend. There lots of seminars and an opening ceremony that should not be missed. It will give you chills. All on the first day. There’s big welcoming committees waiting for you and your D. Its all very exciting. After you check in, you and D can attend different department info sessions, meet professors, eat lunch (go to the Axe and Palm) and just get better acquainted with the campus. Oh and there’s a huge club fair. Every club on the campus has a table out by Tressidor and your D can sign up for club, sororities, im sports etc. There’s bands playing and “The Stanford Band” makes an appearance. (We didn’t know anything about the band prior to that day, so it was quiet a surprise.
Then your D returns back to the check-in station where only the admits attend a ‘pep rally’ in the ampitheater and then are paraded, with banners and all to their dorms. You won’t see D again until pick up on Saturday or Sunday which ever day you leave. We left Saturday night. So I picked up S in the morning. We walked around talked and
discussed if this was the school for him or not. His answer was a resounding “YES”.</p>
<p>So after all this I would highly recommend you get there in time for all the events on the first day. I think it was the best of the bunch. Please don’t miss it. BTW we stay at the Residence Inn Marriot in Los Altos. I would highly recommend it. (4460 El Camino Real, Los Altos, Ca 94022) Its about 12 minutes from Stanford.</p>
<p>So my son is officially enrolled and I guess that makes me a Stanford parent!</p>
<p>He will be coming from the east coast and wants to participate in the pre-orientation program. I can’t quite figure out how this will work logistically. Has anyone done this?</p>
<p>I figured we would buy all his stuff out there, but tt appears as though the students cannot move into their dorms before the trip and I obviously won’t be able to fly out twice to help him get his stuff purchased and moved.</p>
<p>Congratulations and welcome to the Farm!!! I feel like it was just yesterday that we were in your shoes. We are from the east coast too. S is a freshman and also wanted to participate in the SPOT. Unfortunately, I couldn’t figure out how to do it either, but now hind sight is 20/20, although its not that easy when you’re travelling such a distance.<br>
For starters you can send him out there on his own before you get there. He can rent all the camping equipment from the Arrillaga Rec Center. Then you can come out the weekend before the move in date, purchase his frig, coffee maker, microwave, blankets, pillows etc etc etc. Then you will have everything with you and he will arrive that morning of move in.<br>
It can be done. Its not easy and you may have to pay to put extra suitcases on the plane. S is also going to miss out on that part. He won’t be around to shop for his personal items. However, for some boys that may not be so important. </p>
<p>The bad news is that during move in, your S will not be around. As your unpacking, the kids are all milling around, introducing themselves to one another and very distracted. S had no idea where anything was because DH and I unpacked everything. Then came lunch time, S went out with his “friends”. He only met up with us to get his new bike from the bike shop, which he promptly rode away on, as soon as he got it. We were shocked to see how quickly our 18 year was off and running! Couldn’t tell you what he looked like because all we saw the whole day was his backside. So thats the tough part. You and DH really need to say your goodbyes when you bring him to the airport because move in day is so exciting that its hard for them to concentrate on anything but making new friends and meeting people. Its all good and truly amazing but sad, as the parents who have to watch their baby leave the nest.</p>
<p>Again, congratulations and welcome. He is gonna love it !!!</p>
<p>Thanks for the welcome Dungareedoll!</p>
<p>My son is so thrilled to be going to Stanford and now, after Admit Weekend, my husband I are so thrilled for him. (He turned down our alma mater for The Farm). It seems the perfect fit for him and we just need to get used to the idea of having him so far away.</p>
<p>I think the plan you outlined will work. Sounds a bit hectic, but definitely doable. I will probably stay through move-in day even though, as you say, he may not care at all whether or not I am there. I don’t think he will mind flying out there alone. He may as well get used to the trip!</p>
<p>Its very doable. FYI you only stay on the campus until 5pm. They have a huge welcoming ceremony, then you got back to the dorm for a quick meeting with the resident faculty and you say your final goodbyes by 5:30. I didn’t leave CA until the next morning but the kids make it very clear that the parents should be off the campus. Honestly, its all good. I would have been very concerned if S didn’t want us to leave. Its just a bit heartbreaking, especially since he is my oldest. So it was our first time and we are extremely close. So I just didn’t see if coming. We all laugh about it now, just didn’t think it was funny then. (lol)</p>
<p>P.S. keep in mind one more thing. You have to coordinate your flight with the day and time the SPOT trip takes off. You may have to fly him out there a day before. Hence, consider reserving a room at the Stanford Guest House now. That way all you need to do is reserve transportation from the airport to the university. (I would recommend the Super Shuttle) then he is on the campus. If he needs to rent some gear it gives him time to get to Arrillaga, get a good nights rest and then off he goes the next day on SPOT.</p>
<p>This is great information. Thanks. Once he has been accepted into the SPOT program I will go ahead and reserve a room at the Guest House.</p>
<p>Hi Everyone,</p>
<p>I am reviving this thread with a question. You have all been so helpful in the past and I’ve searched high and low on the website with no luck. </p>
<p>I overpaid my son’s first quarter bill by a few hundred dollars. My account at one point said I had a refund coming and now it says I don’t so I assumed they were mailing me a check. This was months ago though and I have not seen a check. An ideas about what is going on? I love Stanford but the bureaucracy can be a bit overwhelming!</p>