[81alum]

I think you covered them all 81.  I just love McGuire, neice of Mark.  But to get into Stanford with less than 4 will be hard.

It is early to be calculating GPA--they don't even have first semester grades for their Junior year yet.  The scattered references you get in the press might be based on grades for just one or two freshman semesters, for example.  Four of the 9 we are watching I have not found any specific GPA references in the press--including on Anna Wilson, who is a commit--one of those 4 might turn out to be a 4.0 student.  But of the remaining 5 I don't think any are going to hit the very high academic bar set by all three of our 2014 class, with all three being 4.0 gpa as well as being Gatorade state players-of-the-year.  Campisano looks very promising with a 3.8.

It is odd to say, but from the perspective of fans watching the recruiting process, we actually can know a lot more about the basketball skills of recruits than we can ever know about their academic performance--since academic performance is private and basketball performance is public.  How many points they score in a high school basketball game is easily accessed, how many points they score on their AP US History final is not.  This is, of course, how it should be.  For us to have a guess as to whether a student might be able to come to Stanford, the students have to choose to publicize their academic performance, by mentioning it to a reporter or putting it up on the web (like Campisano does) or accepting an award that mentions their academics.  And so that often leaves Stanford fans us in the dark compared with fans at less academically selective academic institutions.

[81alum]

I think you covered them all 81.  I just love McGuire, neice of Mark.  But to get into Stanford with less than 4 will be hard.

It is early to be calculating GPA--they don't even have first semester grades for their Junior year yet.  The scattered references you get in the press might be based on grades for just one or two freshman semesters, for example.  Four of the 9 we are watching I have not found any specific GPA references in the press--including on Anna Wilson, who is a commit--one of those 4 might turn out to be a 4.0 student.  But of the remaining 5 I don't think any are going to hit the very high academic bar set by all three of our 2014 class, with all three being 4.0 gpa as well as being Gatorade state players-of-the-year.  Campisano looks very promising with a 3.8.

It is odd to say, but from the perspective of fans watching the recruiting process, we actually can know a lot more about the basketball skills of recruits than we can ever know about their academic performance--since academic performance is private and basketball performance is public.  How many points they score in a high school basketball game is easily accessed, how many points they score on their AP US History final is not.  This is, of course, how it should be.  For us to have a guess as to whether a student might be able to come to Stanford, the students have to choose to publicize their academic performance, by mentioning it to a reporter or putting it up on the web (like Campisano does) or accepting an award that mentions their academics.  And so that often leaves Stanford fans us in the dark compared with fans at less academically selective academic institutions.