[FarmBoy]

Question for those in the know, my niece has been offered a partial scholarship for the Stanford beach team (we're all thrilled for her) which she's verbally accepted. She's a rising junior. They've given her specific direction on what they expect of her academically in order to maximize her chance of admissions, but there is no guarantee of being accepted. At the same time, my sister tells me that Stanford expects that my niece will not participate in any recruiting going forward, even though there is no guarantee of admissions.

A few questions:
- Does anyone know how common it is for recruits to not be accepted if they by and large hit the targets Stanford sets for them?
- Do recruits really just roll the dice and stop talking to other schools in hopes for the Stanford admission? If the acceptance doesn't come, it would put any athlete behind the 8-ball to restart recruiting (and probably very few scholarships remaining at that point).

[FarmBoy]

Question for those in the know, my niece has been offered a partial scholarship for the Stanford beach team (we're all thrilled for her) which she's verbally accepted. She's a rising junior. They've given her specific direction on what they expect of her academically in order to maximize her chance of admissions, but there is no guarantee of being accepted. At the same time, my sister tells me that Stanford expects that my niece will not participate in any recruiting going forward, even though there is no guarantee of admissions.

A few questions:
- Does anyone know how common it is for recruits to not be accepted if they by and large hit the targets Stanford sets for them?
- Do recruits really just roll the dice and stop talking to other schools in hopes for the Stanford admission? If the acceptance doesn't come, it would put any athlete behind the 8-ball to restart recruiting (and probably very few scholarships remaining at that point).