Minju Lim / 11th, York School
Stanford University is located in Stanford California near Palo Alto where the sun shines more than 300 of the 365 days in a year. Discover Stanford a tour intended for high school juniors and seniors and their parents takes place in this sunny haven. Discover Stanford is a two-part tour program that lasts about 2 hours.
The first hour is a campus tour led by a current student and shows the upcoming students a brief overview of what life at Stanford is like. This tour covers everything one needs to know about life at Stanford from details about their academic programs to information about the dorms and residential life.
The student guides that conduct these tours are always very helpful and also very enthusiastic. Not only that but they have all seemed to mastered the art of walking backwards while shouting at the top of their lungs to a group of about thirty people. Martha one of the guides is an upcoming senior at Stanford University and she says that in the three years that she has attended Stanford she has not been able to discover a single bad aspect of her school. Then she adds: "Oh wait. There is one thing which is that I'm going to have to leave it."
The second half of Discover Stanford is an hour-long information session in which an admission officer from the Office of Undergraduate Admission talks about and answers questions related to characteristics that make Stanford unique deciding factors for the admission process and the Financial Aid program (Visit the Stanford Admission website for more information at http://admission.stanford.edu/).
Although this event is free the available spots fill up quickly so reservations are required. The tours run Mondays and Fridays at 9:30 AM and 2:00 PM and Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays at 2:00 PM on normal days and also at 9:30 during peak visitation periods. The program is not offered during academic breaks and holidays. To find out more about this event and Stanford in general please visit the school website at http://www.stanford.edu.