COOL QUOTIENT: Stanford ranked fourth in Seventeen magazine’s survey of the “50 coolest colleges” for girls, behind Rice, Yale and the University of Texas-Austin. Factors in Stanford’s favor: windsurfing for credit, the liberal stop-out policy and “the hunks snapped in the tabloids with Chelsea Clinton [’01].”
YIELD SIGNS: In an analysis of 27 top-ranked schools by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Stanford had the highest yield rate—or percentage of those accepted who choose to attend—of African-Americans last year. At 64.4 percent, the University edged out Harvard (60.5 percent), which took first place in 2001. Among the schools surveyed, Stanford has the second-highest percentage of African-American undergraduates (11.6), behind the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
