Average purchase price of a house in East Palo Alto:
$163,352
Average purchase price of a house in Palo Alto:
$699,000
Percentage of unemployment in East Palo Alto:
9.1
Percentage of unemployment in all of San Mateo County:
3.6
Estimated annual hours spent by Stanford volunteers in East Palo Alto:
72,000
Tenured and tenure-track professors at Stanford:
1,183
Freshman or sophomore seminars taught by tenured or tenure-track professors in 1997-98:
142
Students in typical freshman or sophomore seminar:
14
Students enrolled in Elementary Economics, Fall 1996:
486
Spectators attending the 100th Big Game:
85,500
Consecutive Big Games attended by Edgar McDowell, '26:
75
Skydivers who dropped into Stanford Stadium in pregame show:
14
Friends enlisted by the Tree as extra security:
4
Days until the 200th Big Game:
36,461
SOURCES: (1) Cornish and Carey Real Estate; San Mateo County; Haas Center for Public Service; (2) Stanford Facts; Registrar's Office; Stanford Introductory Seminars; (3) Athletic Department.
