[oman]

Naive response, but how are we to know what is honest and what is not?  Are Stanford coaches encouraged to announce who has been rejected?

Stanford has never struck me as the kind of place that ever wanted to get anything, no matter how small, out of someone's rejection, and that is what this would seem to me to be.

No question in terms of honesty, yes, I imagine that this could occur, but do we really think it occurs all that much?  I would think it would be pretty rare.  And the potential down side is pretty large if the truth came out. 

The valedictorian of my kid's high school was rejected by Stanford and had to settle for Dartmouth.  He strikes me as the kind of kid who would tell his fellow classmates that Stanford was his first choice, but if he chooses not to, that is between him and whatever governs his honesty. 

[oman]

Naive response, but how are we to know what is honest and what is not?  Are Stanford coaches encouraged to announce who has been rejected?

Stanford has never struck me as the kind of place that ever wanted to get anything, no matter how small, out of someone's rejection, and that is what this would seem to me to be.

No question in terms of honesty, yes, I imagine that this could occur, but do we really think it occurs all that much?  I would think it would be pretty rare.  And the potential down side is pretty large if the truth came out. 

The valedictorian of my kid's high school was rejected by Stanford and had to settle for Dartmouth.  He strikes me as the kind of kid who would tell his fellow classmates that Stanford was his first choice, but if he chooses not to, that is between him and whatever governs his honesty.