[ColoradoTree]

At the risk of some thread drift, I have a few questions. Does anybody recall a football player that was enrolled in the GSB while playing football? Ditto for the Law School and Med School? I don't remember any, but I must admit I haven't looked for this previously. I would assume it has happened at some point, but I don't recall it.

Bill McColl was offered up as an answer, but from my admittedly quick look into it, it looks like he went to med school at the University of Chicago. Does anyone know if he started at med school while still at Stanford? Goose, I suspect you're right. The great Alan Page did something similar (law school at the University of Minnesota while playing for the Vikings), but I understood the question to be specific to Stanford's business, law, and medical schools. And as you note, it seems highly likely that it's happened due to how absurdly competitive those programs are. 

Others have noted anecdotes of other master's degrees, of course, and at least when I was there ('99-'03), it was very common for athletes playing a fifth year to do a co-term and leave after five years with a BA/MA--but again, not in business, medicine, or law.

A debt-free MBA for Powell? Well played, sir.

[ColoradoTree]

At the risk of some thread drift, I have a few questions. Does anybody recall a football player that was enrolled in the GSB while playing football? Ditto for the Law School and Med School? I don't remember any, but I must admit I haven't looked for this previously. I would assume it has happened at some point, but I don't recall it.

Bill McColl was offered up as an answer, but from my admittedly quick look into it, it looks like he went to med school at the University of Chicago. Does anyone know if he started at med school while still at Stanford? Goose, I suspect you're right. The great Alan Page did something similar (law school at the University of Minnesota while playing for the Vikings), but I understood the question to be specific to Stanford's business, law, and medical schools. And as you note, it seems highly likely that it's happened due to how absurdly competitive those programs are. 

Others have noted anecdotes of other master's degrees, of course, and at least when I was there ('99-'03), it was very common for athletes playing a fifth year to do a co-term and leave after five years with a BA/MA--but again, not in business, medicine, or law.

A debt-free MBA for Powell? Well played, sir.