NExT: Undergraduate Research

(May 3, 2011) Katie Dektar, Daniel Jacobson, and Jasmine Hu share their experiences participating in undergraduate research opportunities at Stanford University. They all talk about how this research has helped to enrich their academics while they pursue a passion.

The NExt Video Series seeks to connect Stanford undergraduates with the opportunities that are available to them as students. The series is run through The Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.

Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/

Stanford Undergraduate Academic Life:
http://undergrad.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

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Education

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• academic
• undergrad
• university
• grant
• data
• experiment
• experience
• career development
• stanford
• higher education
• VPUE

[WinterXL]

I read somewhere that around 7% of applicants get into Stanford. Around 34000 apply. What does this mean?

Well, consider that each of the 31620 unselected pay a $90 application fee.

THAT'S OVER 2.8 MILLION DOLLARS... taken from the poor folks who "weren't good enough".

[TheAssgas]

leme guess, Katie has a hipster boyfriend

[happinesson]

Experience is the best teacher.. Do what you love to do..love what you are doing..Be successful individual!

[grunder20]

stanford vids are just awesome. they're very knowledgeable too.

[agapitoflores001]

I wonder how the uploader gets all this videos in this channel.

[deetotheloh]

@WinterXL The statistics are essentially the same for almost (if not all) top-tier private universities. That would include the Ivies. And those annual 2.8 million are used to fund world-changing and often life-saving research, as well as the education of thousands of "poor" Stanford admits like myself.

[freezingbeast]

@69erthx1138

Because Stanford doesn't really need to advertise it's overwhelming prowess in science and engineering undergraduate research to attract students, you won't see those aspects advertised. But rest assured, there is serious research going on in the "hard sciences"

[IPaduser75767]

Google! WOW!

[69erthx1138]

Where are the undergrads doing research in the hard sciences or engineering? The US has a serious problem with this issue.

[TRONhack3r]

Is this a joke.. I do better research at home much less at school on much more interesting things.. MIT is for the win ^_^ suckers

[McTaggStar]

@WinterXL: If you can't beat em, join em.