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Thinking Matters helps you ask rigorous and genuine questions that can lead to scientific experimentation, literary interpretation, or social policy analysis. The lively lecture and seminar format challenges you to discover collaborative ways to approach problem solving.

Through Cardinal Service, Stanford offers you a wide variety of public and community service opportunities, ranging from on-campus courses to off-campus research to community-based leadership projects. Students pursuing any course of study can find opportunities to serve and many offer academic credit. Find out more!

Learn more about the New York experience through our housing and dining pages.

Learn more about our residential living-learning communities: ITALIC, SLE, LSP, and FroSoCo.

Sophomore College is a three-week residential summer program during which second-year students in seminars of 12-15 students engage in intense academic exploration. 

The Leland Scholars Program helps ease the transition to Stanford for students who may be the first members of their families to attend college, come from low-income households or are graduates of high schools with limited curricular offerings.

Check out Arts Intensive 2018. Three weeks in September, two units of credit! Many AI courses fulfill the Creative Expression requirement.

Find out more about this opportunity to jump-start your first year!