Stanford REA vs. Brown ED

phantasmagoric
Fri, 27 May 2011 03:04:03 +0000

^ PrincetonDreams, it’d probably be best for you not to proclaim knowledge of every single athlete, especially considering you haven’t met any of them.

I can’t find the article at the moment, but I’ll look again later and link it to you. In it the director of admissions explicitly states that the acceptance rate for recruited athletes is under 10%. Other admissions officers have stated this as well to those being recruited.



I doubt any of them would make it to any school inside the USNews top 50 (let alone Stanford) if it wasn’t for their athletic ability



Please rid yourself of this absurd notion before you start Stanford in the fall. You’re flat-out wrong on that, and continuing to believe that will only make you unjustifiably disdain those you will be attending school with for 4 years. In the meantime, you might look at this:

[Stanford Football Recruits Corner the ‘Smart’ Market - WSJ.com](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704364004576132503526250500.html)

And that’s just football. Remember that the overwhelming majority of student-athletes play for sports that are too unimportant to give any admissions preference for, like fencing, water polo, synchronized swimming, squash, etc. Consider also that because Stanford has the best athletic program and the strongest academic programs, it attracts the best student-athletes: the ones who are amazing students (who would likely get in anywhere regardless of athletic ability) but who are also great athletes.

If after thinking about this you still have contempt for the many amazing student-athletes that Stanford enrolls, do tell me how it feels next fall when many of them outperform you in classes. Just because you went to Eton does not mean you can disdain everyone who went to public schools (as you’ve done in another thread) or those who are better than you at sports despite also being equal academically (as you seem to do here).