gettin into stanford through sports

cardfan
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:14:25 +0000

Some highly recruited athletes get their application, test scores, grade transcripts, recommendations, etc in their junior year to the admissions department. They are often notified of conditional admittance to Stanford the end of their junior year. It is conditioned on the athlete continuing to get acceptable grades through their senior year and supplying all the additional information such as mid-year academic progress reports from their high school.

To pvprincess: Williams was notified this past May (during her junior year) and made the announcement public about the verbal agreement as soon as she was accepted. Same thing for Spelman and Brown last year (their junior year). These three were nationally recruited volleyball players and are well known by everyone who follows women’s college volleyball.

I would just make the point that for most Stanford sports, top athletes are notified through their high school or club coaches during the sophomore and early junior years that Stanford is interested in possibly recruiting them. This is standard for most DI sports programs.

Some recruited athletes do not get admitted to Stanford because of academics. The admissions department makes the final decision.