Athlete recruitment...

NJDS
Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:53:59 +0000

@phantasmagoric: you shouldn’t speak about athletic recruitment if you don’t know much about it.

recruitment is a boost in admissions in even non-revenue sports. it is not consistent each year, but it is a boost.

for example, my best friend’s sport last year had 10/11 of the recruiting class admitted. this year, it was about 4/12ish, so it is less profound. i realize this info is not statistically sound as evidence, but i’m just trying to make a point.

also, we should all be careful about what we mean by “recruited”. as you said before, there are different levels of recruitment, but most varsity sports at Stanford have very few walk-ons. and even those walk-ons were skilled in high school but just weren’t recruited.