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According to the article this is a three year pilot program with limited participation:

"The committee recommended that the pilot program be limited to 15 students per year."

My guess is the football coach will choose the 15 student/athletes although it isn't addressed in the article. 

What will be the metrics for success or failure?  The 15 students become professional football players?  They graduate or  graduate early?  A coveted recruit says he came to Stanford because he can start school early?

I can imagine all varsity coaches at Stanford would be in favor of this policy.  I honestly am surprised the faculty senate is down with it.

If it is restricted to athletes, I am not "down with it". It may be there are no applicants who aren't athletes, in which case having no "diversity" is not avoidable, but having a "pilot program" that is designed to exclude non-athletes is totally improper IMHO.

The "metrics" question is a good one. Perhaps one would have to wait 40 years to really know. Right now, Stanford Housing is changing so many things in the "on-campus" experience that all comparisons to past performance will be conflated by those changes. IMHO you probably will be hard put to "measure" the effects of early admission. That will be viewed as a positive, because it can be used to justify any given decision.

[Goose]

According to the article this is a three year pilot program with limited participation:

"The committee recommended that the pilot program be limited to 15 students per year."

My guess is the football coach will choose the 15 student/athletes although it isn't addressed in the article. 

What will be the metrics for success or failure?  The 15 students become professional football players?  They graduate or  graduate early?  A coveted recruit says he came to Stanford because he can start school early?

I can imagine all varsity coaches at Stanford would be in favor of this policy.  I honestly am surprised the faculty senate is down with it.

If it is restricted to athletes, I am not "down with it". It may be there are no applicants who aren't athletes, in which case having no "diversity" is not avoidable, but having a "pilot program" that is designed to exclude non-athletes is totally improper IMHO.

The "metrics" question is a good one. Perhaps one would have to wait 40 years to really know. Right now, Stanford Housing is changing so many things in the "on-campus" experience that all comparisons to past performance will be conflated by those changes. IMHO you probably will be hard put to "measure" the effects of early admission. That will be viewed as a positive, because it can be used to justify any given decision.