[82lsju]

This sounds very much like "we must do this to keep up with the Joneses" which is a very bad reason to design admissions policy around.

BC

Hi BostonCard,

Hope all is well.

Or it could be that the StanU Administration has finally (albeit about 10years late) realized the 'traditional admissions criteria for undergrads & transfers & the slow process of processing these applications' is wrong & anachronistic, and is leading to 'losing quality people & graduating 1000s of 'professional nerds' ...something the world needs much less of imho.

To me, this is the wrong solution to the problem.  In fact, I think a two-track system would exacerbate the gap between athletes and students.  The great thing about athletics when I was a student (30 years ago, now) is that the athletes had to be admitted like the rest of us, had to take the same classes, lived in the same dorms, and were basically students who competed in NCAA athletics.  I buy that we may be graduating 1000s nerds (though I was probably one of them back in my day), but I don't think you fix that by introducing a second tier of semi-professional athlete into the mix.

BC

one thing that has changed is way back when almost all (maybe all) students started fall quarter.  Over time there has been forward creep for football players (and more recently other athletes) to enroll for summer quarter and most recently for football players to enroll in winter quarter.  

Football players (and probably other athletes) have been on an accelerated admissions cycle for a long time as they get notified of admission well before regular applicants (early restrictive notification is mid-Dec (so before the football signing date) and regular decisions are in April)

[82lsju]

This sounds very much like "we must do this to keep up with the Joneses" which is a very bad reason to design admissions policy around.

BC

Hi BostonCard,

Hope all is well.

Or it could be that the StanU Administration has finally (albeit about 10years late) realized the 'traditional admissions criteria for undergrads & transfers & the slow process of processing these applications' is wrong & anachronistic, and is leading to 'losing quality people & graduating 1000s of 'professional nerds' ...something the world needs much less of imho.

To me, this is the wrong solution to the problem.  In fact, I think a two-track system would exacerbate the gap between athletes and students.  The great thing about athletics when I was a student (30 years ago, now) is that the athletes had to be admitted like the rest of us, had to take the same classes, lived in the same dorms, and were basically students who competed in NCAA athletics.  I buy that we may be graduating 1000s nerds (though I was probably one of them back in my day), but I don't think you fix that by introducing a second tier of semi-professional athlete into the mix.

BC

one thing that has changed is way back when almost all (maybe all) students started fall quarter.  Over time there has been forward creep for football players (and more recently other athletes) to enroll for summer quarter and most recently for football players to enroll in winter quarter.  

Football players (and probably other athletes) have been on an accelerated admissions cycle for a long time as they get notified of admission well before regular applicants (early restrictive notification is mid-Dec (so before the football signing date) and regular decisions are in April)