[fullmetal]

They might have been above the average FSU student at the time of admission, but I'm guessing that Winston may not have kept that up during his shenanigans as the BMOC at FSU.  Completely unsubstantiated guess.

[fullmetal]

They might have been above the average FSU student at the time of admission, but I'm guessing that Winston may not have kept that up during his shenanigans as the BMOC at FSU.  Completely unsubstantiated guess.

[CTcard]

Given that we seriously recruited them, it is safe to say that they are probably above the average FSU student academically.

While I am pretty sure that Myron Rolle would qualify as above the average FSU student (probably by a lot), and wouldn't be surprised if Winston's entering numbers were as well, I am not sure that blanket statement about Stanford recruiting them necessarily works.

Probably the best (least massaged) source of academic numbers for colleges is the DOE required common data set. Here is a link to the page of FSU's that includes information on incoming students:
http://www.ir.fsu.edu/Common_Data_Set/2014-15/C.html

While average is not listed, we can make a few guesses about median numbers that presumably are pretty close to average.

- From the SAT info a 600 was achieved by 56% (reading), 56% (math), and 53% (writing) of FSU frosh. So, presumably the 50th percentile is 610 or so across the board.
- The ACT info isn't spaced out as well, but we can interpolate between 25th and 75th percentiles to guess around a 27.5 median.
- 67% of FSU students had a HS GPA of 3.75 or higher, so the median would seem to be at least 3.8.

Taken together, that would put median numbers around 1830 SAT, 27.5 ACT, and 3.8+ GPA. Stanford has certainly recruited some football players with lower scores than that.

[CTcard]

Given that we seriously recruited them, it is safe to say that they are probably above the average FSU student academically.

While I am pretty sure that Myron Rolle would qualify as above the average FSU student (probably by a lot), and wouldn't be surprised if Winston's entering numbers were as well, I am not sure that blanket statement about Stanford recruiting them necessarily works.

Probably the best (least massaged) source of academic numbers for colleges is the DOE required common data set. Here is a link to the page of FSU's that includes information on incoming students:
http://www.ir.fsu.edu/Common_Data_Set/2014-15/C.html

While average is not listed, we can make a few guesses about median numbers that presumably are pretty close to average.

- From the SAT info a 600 was achieved by 56% (reading), 56% (math), and 53% (writing) of FSU frosh. So, presumably the 50th percentile is 610 or so across the board.
- The ACT info isn't spaced out as well, but we can interpolate between 25th and 75th percentiles to guess around a 27.5 median.
- 67% of FSU students had a HS GPA of 3.75 or higher, so the median would seem to be at least 3.8.

Taken together, that would put median numbers around 1830 SAT, 27.5 ACT, and 3.8+ GPA. Stanford has certainly recruited some football players with lower scores than that.

[Farm93]

Probably true that Winston was closer to the averages for FSU, but also likely that Winston would have easily qualified academically for FSU without football, or baseball.

[Farm93]

Probably true that Winston was closer to the averages for FSU, but also likely that Winston would have easily qualified academically for FSU without football, or baseball.