[Spiny_Norman]

A reminder on "turning us down"  It's not just grades it's AP classes a far more than 2.  Unless we see the transcript we don't know.

Of course not taking the number of AP classes that Admissions wants to see is, in effect, a way of turning us down.

Yes, both points are good amendments. My sense is just that for a while from Ki through Betts we were landing many of our top targets year to year, and for whatever reason that trend has not been true since essentially the year we won the Natty (paradoxically), and of course coincided with a health outflow of players with remaining eligibility and no degree (Betts, Nivar, Emma-Nopu, Van Gytenbeek) plus of course ones with eligibility but who chose to graduate and move on (Irieh-FEN, Jones, Brink).

I know that Betts has commented about how she committed to Stanford without being able to visit in-person because of Covid restrictions. Was that true of Nivar as well? I wonder if conversely Stanford lost out on recruits who might have thought differently if they had been able to make a campus visit. All we can do is speculate.

[Spiny_Norman]

A reminder on "turning us down"  It's not just grades it's AP classes a far more than 2.  Unless we see the transcript we don't know.

Of course not taking the number of AP classes that Admissions wants to see is, in effect, a way of turning us down.

Yes, both points are good amendments. My sense is just that for a while from Ki through Betts we were landing many of our top targets year to year, and for whatever reason that trend has not been true since essentially the year we won the Natty (paradoxically), and of course coincided with a health outflow of players with remaining eligibility and no degree (Betts, Nivar, Emma-Nopu, Van Gytenbeek) plus of course ones with eligibility but who chose to graduate and move on (Irieh-FEN, Jones, Brink).

I know that Betts has commented about how she committed to Stanford without being able to visit in-person because of Covid restrictions. Was that true of Nivar as well? I wonder if conversely Stanford lost out on recruits who might have thought differently if they had been able to make a campus visit. All we can do is speculate.