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<p>If you’re an athlete, you’re an athlete. But for admissions purposes, your athlete status won’t have much of an effect unless you’re recruited (and even then not much). Once you’re a student, you can be considered an athlete in different ways. The recruited athletes usually play for intercollegiate sports. But Stanford considers you a student-athlete if you play for club sports, too. </p>
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<p>About 12% of the student body are intercollegiate athletes. So I wouldn’t say “a LOT.”</p>
<p>[Cardinal</a> Athletics: Stanford University Facts](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/about/facts/athletics.html]Cardinal”>http://www.stanford.edu/about/facts/athletics.html)</p>
<p>If you count everyone in club and intramural sports, it’s a lot.</p>