Stanford University
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About
When railroad magnate and former California Gov. Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, lost their only child, Leland, Jr., to typhoid in 1884, they decided to build a university as the most fitting memorial, and deeded to it a large fortune that included the 8,180-acre Palo Alto stock farm that became the campus. The campus is located within the traditional territory of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. The Stanfords made their plans just as the modern research university was taking form.
Leland Stanford Junior University – still its legal name – opened Oct. 1, 1891.
The Stanfords and founding President David Starr Jordan aimed for their new university to be nonsectarian, co-educational and affordable, to produce cultured and useful graduates, and to teach both the traditional liberal arts and the technology and engineering that were already changing America.
Their vision took shape on the oak-dotted fields of the San Francisco Peninsula as a matrix of arcades and quadrangles designed for expansion and the dissolving of barriers between people, disciplines and ideas.
Location
Stanford, CA
Setting
Suburban
Student-Faculty Ratio
5:1
Academic Calendar
Quarter
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Application Requirements
Test Scores
Test Optional
Recommendation Letters
Required
Platforms
Common Application, Coalition Application
Transcripts
Final, Mid-Year
Recommendation Letters
2 Teacher and One Counselor Required, One Additional Optional
Supplements
3 supplemental essays and several short questions
School Information
Number of Applicants
47,452
Number of Students Admitted
2,050
Total Enrollment
1,696
Yield Rate
82%
Graduation Rate
94%
Retention Rate
99%
Top 50?
Top 50 School
Undergraduate Class
7,000
Deadlines
Early Decision:
N/AEarly Action:
11/01/2021Regular Decision:
01/05/2022Costs and Fees
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Room and Board
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