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Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) [11] [12] is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States.It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford, the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California, and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr.
At times Stanford has required undergraduate students to take core courses in various subjects in the humanities and sciences. Some of the core courses include Western Civilization ("Western Civ') taken by all freshmen—first established in 1935 and continued until the mid-1960s.
College admissions in the United States is the process of applying for undergraduate study at colleges or universities. [1] For students entering college directly after high school , the process typically begins in eleventh grade , with most applications submitted during twelfth grade . [ 2 ]
Admission to the MD program at Stanford is highly competitive: in 2019, 6,894 people applied, 422 were interviewed, and 175 accepted for 90 spots. [13] Stanford is one of several schools in the United States to use the multiple mini-interview system, developed at McMaster University Medical School in Canada, to evaluate candidates. [14]
The Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering, also known as EE; Double E, is a department at Stanford University. Established in 1894, [ 7 ] it is one of nine engineering departments that comprise the school of engineering, [ 8 ] and in 1971, had the largest graduate enrollment of any department at Stanford University. [ 9 ]
Stanford offered admission to 287 students, or 13.8% of the class — with 92% related to alumni and 8% with ties only to donors. Read more: 'This is just the biggest fiasco.' College admissions ...
Stanford University apologized Wednesday for limiting Jewish student admissions during the 1950s — practice that the school, for decades, denied had taken place.
In July 2024, a Stanford alumna wrote on Autostraddle alleging that Lythcott-Haims began an affair with her when she was a 22-year-old senior student and continued after her graduation in 2011. [19] The alumna stated that her mother anonymously complained to the university, and that Lythcott-Haims left Stanford shortly thereafter.