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You can find more information specific to Stanford's programs [http://www.stanford.edu/home/prospective/ here]. The [http://www.stanford.edu/home/stanford/index.html About Stanford page] is also great for general information on the culture of the university. | You can find more information specific to Stanford's programs [http://www.stanford.edu/home/prospective/ here]. The [http://www.stanford.edu/home/stanford/index.html About Stanford page] is also great for general information on the culture of the university. | ||
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Stanford & the US College Experience
Stanford University is located in Palo Alto, California (near but not in San Francisco).
Stanford is a four year university, which means after four years you graduate with a bachelors degree in whatever you decided to major in. Stanford is also an expensive private school that does not give merit-based scholarships, so Sam probably got scholarships from other sources or need-based grants or loans through the school. Considering that his father is basically unemployed with zero income, Sam was a pretty good candidate for need-based financial aid.
Most students live on campus in dorms in the first couple of years, and only juniors or seniors are likely to live in off-campus apartments.
The way most US colleges work is that undergrads are required to take some number of classes in different fields -- like they have to take a certain number of humanities classes, a certain number of science classes, etc. However, it is worth noting that this is not necessarily strictly the case for Stanford, as each school does it differently.
In addition to these required classes, sometime around their second year, students declare a major to make it official what they're going to study, but it's very normal for US college students to change their minds about what they're majoring in at least once (and without bureaucratic difficulty).
There probably isn't an actual major for pre-law, so Sam would probably have been majoring in something like political science or economics, though he could have been majoring in anything and still been planning to go to law school. There are guidelines for areas of study for people who want to go to law school (pre-law programs or the like), but it's not usually something you officially declare.
Academic calendar
You can find out about Stanford's semester dates here.
Names for student years
1st year - freshman
2nd year - sophomore
3rd year - junior
4th year - senior
Further information
You can find more information specific to Stanford's programs here. The About Stanford page is also great for general information on the culture of the university.
