My son is a freshman at Stanford. No family connections to Stanford. Agree with everyone here who has a kid at there- my son says almost everyone he meets is passionate, humble and very hardworking.
My kid says that everyone he met are pretty nice kids and chill. His quad-mates don’t really hang around too much because they all have different areas of interests are majors. He says he’s glad to be studying there even though there are less than ideal things about the school. That’s all I care about – that he’s glad to be there and not feeling like he made a mistake.
My kid not passionate obsessive about anything although focused; he’s just interested in finding out what he wants to pursue and will diligently pursue it.
“The unequivocal you.”
Perfect.