<p>I agree with TheGFG. My S knows a few recuited athletes on the campus and he is extremely impressed with them. Not only are athletes but Olympians too, who are training for the next Olympics and attending Stanford. Their SAT’s and ACT were excellent and they are extremely competitive in the classroom. As for the URM’s the samething goes. People tend to put both of these groups down and meantime you have to remember that in the long run they have to still survive in the Stanford classroom. Professors aren’t giving the athletes and urm’s a separate curve. So it would be ridiculous for Stanford to take a student with poor grades just to fill an athlete or urm spot. There’s too many well qualified students in these categories out there to settle for anything less. I think you have to give these athletes and urm’s credit. They work much harder than the regular student to get the grades they do.</p>