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Do we seem to get an unusual number of guys who go on missions?  Other than BYU, of course, are other top schools on a par with us regarding this?  Curious because I have no idea.  If the answer is no, then why?

Stanford definitely has success recruiting LDS kids, and that fact is regularly noted with frustration by Utah and BYU fans.  I don't know the LDS faith well enough to say whether there is anything that causes its adherents to choose an elite academic institution like Stanford.  Aside from the obvious geographic proximity and the various advantages that Stanford offers to all recruits, I can think of only one specific advantage that Stanford has in LDS recruiting, which is that Lance Anderson is LDS.
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We have recruited LDS kids well for a long time, including Mark Madsen, for example.  I suspect that the demographics of LDS favor schools like Stanford.  First off, 76% of Mormons live out West, and after Utah, California has the highest LDS population (13%).  Secondly, Mormons are highly educated; 60% have at least some college education, compared to 50% of the general population.  Mormon's also have a higher chance of being in a middle income bracket ( 38% of Mormons report earning between $50,000 and $100,000 annually, compared with 30% among the population overall in this income category), and relatively few are in the lowest income bracket.

http://www.pewforum.org/2009/07/24/a-por...in-the-us/

The bottom line is that religion aside, the demographics of the LDS church favor Stanford.  Although I couldn't find data to back it up, I did get the sense that Mormons were overrepresented at Stanford (compared to the population at large) when I was there.  I also found this link:

http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/200...e-mormons/

Suggesting that Stanford was one of the "best colleges for young single mormons".

BC

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[quote author=ferrari link=topic=11701.msg155169#msg155169 date=1454366704]
Do we seem to get an unusual number of guys who go on missions?  Other than BYU, of course, are other top schools on a par with us regarding this?  Curious because I have no idea.  If the answer is no, then why?

Stanford definitely has success recruiting LDS kids, and that fact is regularly noted with frustration by Utah and BYU fans.  I don't know the LDS faith well enough to say whether there is anything that causes its adherents to choose an elite academic institution like Stanford.  Aside from the obvious geographic proximity and the various advantages that Stanford offers to all recruits, I can think of only one specific advantage that Stanford has in LDS recruiting, which is that Lance Anderson is LDS.
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We have recruited LDS kids well for a long time, including Mark Madsen, for example.  I suspect that the demographics of LDS favor schools like Stanford.  First off, 76% of Mormons live out West, and after Utah, California has the highest LDS population (13%).  Secondly, Mormons are highly educated; 60% have at least some college education, compared to 50% of the general population.  Mormon's also have a higher chance of being in a middle income bracket ( 38% of Mormons report earning between $50,000 and $100,000 annually, compared with 30% among the population overall in this income category), and relatively few are in the lowest income bracket.

http://www.pewforum.org/2009/07/24/a-por...in-the-us/

The bottom line is that religion aside, the demographics of the LDS church favor Stanford.  Although I couldn't find data to back it up, I did get the sense that Mormons were overrepresented at Stanford (compared to the population at large) when I was there.  I also found this link:

http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/200...e-mormons/

Suggesting that Stanford was one of the "best colleges for young single mormons".

BC