[81alum]

Here is an honest question:  for players who decide they want to stay for a year after they graduate, isn't there a second admissions decision?  On this board and elsewhere, people seem to assume it is automatic, but don't these graduating players still have to be accepted into a graduate program?  I remember a couple of years ago when Ruef entered an Engineering program--that cannot have been a gimme.  Most master's programs at Stanford are selective and don't just admit anyone.  The athlete would have needed to have taken the right prerequisites, gotten reasonable grades, taken the GREs on time, collected letters of rec, etc.  I imagine most plan this out well in advance, talk to advisers, apply well ahead of time, etc., but their undergraduate years would have to be shaped in such a way as to prepare them for entrance into the grad program.

Or am I missing something?  Do players just delay their undergraduate graduation for a year so they can stick around and take some electives?  Or are there a few MA programs that admit everyone?

[81alum]

Here is an honest question:  for players who decide they want to stay for a year after they graduate, isn't there a second admissions decision?  On this board and elsewhere, people seem to assume it is automatic, but don't these graduating players still have to be accepted into a graduate program?  I remember a couple of years ago when Ruef entered an Engineering program--that cannot have been a gimme.  Most master's programs at Stanford are selective and don't just admit anyone.  The athlete would have needed to have taken the right prerequisites, gotten reasonable grades, taken the GREs on time, collected letters of rec, etc.  I imagine most plan this out well in advance, talk to advisers, apply well ahead of time, etc., but their undergraduate years would have to be shaped in such a way as to prepare them for entrance into the grad program.

Or am I missing something?  Do players just delay their undergraduate graduation for a year so they can stick around and take some electives?  Or are there a few MA programs that admit everyone?