gettin into stanford through sports

TheGFG
Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:08:37 +0000

D feels very unsure of the situation with Stanford for the reason you suggest, beawinner. Many schools have been working really hard for months to woo her, and Stanford is a newcomer to the scene. But the difference is that Stanford is at the very top of the athletic heap and probably doesn’t have to do what other schools do. They can let kids come to them… and beg! Also, D’s sport is more individual and objective (a time is a time), so there’s less need for coaches to travel to watch kids play or host sports camps and the like.

I read an interview with Jordan Hasay’s father. She is one of the best high school runners in history who will be a college freshman this fall. He said he was surprised that on July 1st she got only 5 calls. In general that summer, they were expecting the phone to be ringing off the hook, and it wasn’t like that at all–even for her. That tells me that sports like track and x-c, and swimming might work differently than the bigger profile team sports.