[Goose]

Well Holy Cow can you imagine that some other colleges offer a great experience? How can that possibly be?

In turn, it just blows me away that alumni on the CardBoard think highly of their alma mater at the expense of other schools.  Imagine!

I think most people that attend Stanford like it. Some do not, but stay on to graduate anyway. Some leave. I also think most people who attend Stanford fully realize other schools have a lot to offer and are very open to the idea that some people will be better off going elsewhere. It is certainly true that if you attend Stanford you are very aware of certain things you consider as "warts". How important these "warts" are to an individual obviously depends on that individual.

My experience was that "faculty brats" and "legacies" in particular often really didn't like being at Stanford. They never really had a choice about where they were going to school. Faculty brats had already lived their entire life at Stanford. They wanted to "go away to college" but couldn't. Some were certainly not interested in a academic career and really had no idea what they wanted to do in life. They hung around to graduate because they had to, but would have (or should have) left in an instant if they could. This says nothing bad about Stanford. It says a lot about the "fit".

[Goose]

Well Holy Cow can you imagine that some other colleges offer a great experience? How can that possibly be?

In turn, it just blows me away that alumni on the CardBoard think highly of their alma mater at the expense of other schools.  Imagine!

I think most people that attend Stanford like it. Some do not, but stay on to graduate anyway. Some leave. I also think most people who attend Stanford fully realize other schools have a lot to offer and are very open to the idea that some people will be better off going elsewhere. It is certainly true that if you attend Stanford you are very aware of certain things you consider as "warts". How important these "warts" are to an individual obviously depends on that individual.

My experience was that "faculty brats" and "legacies" in particular often really didn't like being at Stanford. They never really had a choice about where they were going to school. Faculty brats had already lived their entire life at Stanford. They wanted to "go away to college" but couldn't. Some were certainly not interested in a academic career and really had no idea what they wanted to do in life. They hung around to graduate because they had to, but would have (or should have) left in an instant if they could. This says nothing bad about Stanford. It says a lot about the "fit".