[TheFarm07]

[quote author=TheFarm07 link=topic=11153.msg137917#msg137917 date=1446244515]
[quote author=BobK link=topic=11153.msg137904#msg137904 date=1446242201]
Of course their are many we would love to recruit and they would love to come to Stanford but academics are in the way and then there are those who don't want to come who might well have been accepted.

It's not a state secret that Stanford is very hard to get into, it seems baffling that more GBB players don't prepare early when they start high school to do well academically if they want to go to Stanford.

In other women's sports, we often get top recruits and they have to pass the same rigorous standards that WBB players do.
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The fact is that admission into Stanford has become much, much harder over the last 5-10 years.  That is true for ALL admits--athletes or not.  It is the most selective school of its size in the world, now, and this creates absolute craziness.  For a while I thought that these ramped-up admissions standards probably did not affect athletes, but now I think they do--at least they seem to outside of football.  I bet if you compared the high school academic records of our WBB team today versus the teams of 5 years ago or 10 years ago you would see significant differences.  Without access to the data it is hard to prove, but I wonder how many of our stars from past teams would actually not be admissible in today's three ring admissions circus.
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It just seems like it has affected women's BB more than other sports, though it's hard to compare, because most other sports don't have recruit rankings like basketball (amended: I wasn't sure, I knew VB had recruit rankings, but I wasn't sure of the other sports), but we seem to do better in getting higher ranked recruits in other sports (volleyball, water polo, tennis, soccer, swimming, etc.) even though all of them face the same more rigorous standards

[TheFarm07]

[quote author=TheFarm07 link=topic=11153.msg137917#msg137917 date=1446244515]
[quote author=BobK link=topic=11153.msg137904#msg137904 date=1446242201]
Of course their are many we would love to recruit and they would love to come to Stanford but academics are in the way and then there are those who don't want to come who might well have been accepted.

It's not a state secret that Stanford is very hard to get into, it seems baffling that more GBB players don't prepare early when they start high school to do well academically if they want to go to Stanford.

In other women's sports, we often get top recruits and they have to pass the same rigorous standards that WBB players do.
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The fact is that admission into Stanford has become much, much harder over the last 5-10 years.  That is true for ALL admits--athletes or not.  It is the most selective school of its size in the world, now, and this creates absolute craziness.  For a while I thought that these ramped-up admissions standards probably did not affect athletes, but now I think they do--at least they seem to outside of football.  I bet if you compared the high school academic records of our WBB team today versus the teams of 5 years ago or 10 years ago you would see significant differences.  Without access to the data it is hard to prove, but I wonder how many of our stars from past teams would actually not be admissible in today's three ring admissions circus.
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It just seems like it has affected women's BB more than other sports, though it's hard to compare, because most other sports don't have recruit rankings like basketball (amended: I wasn't sure, I knew VB had recruit rankings, but I wasn't sure of the other sports), but we seem to do better in getting higher ranked recruits in other sports (volleyball, water polo, tennis, soccer, swimming, etc.) even though all of them face the same more rigorous standards