[2006alum]

Is there any good reason to think deciding whether to accept early enrollees or allow official visits before January was Shaw's alone to make? I can maybe believe he had the decider's pen on official visits, but my understanding was that the University as a whole has strongly opposed early enrollment and that this had to be negotiated as a limited and conditional exception for football recruits. For as long as I've been associated with Stanford, Stanford has never permitted early enrollment prior to summer session preceding one's frosh year (and again, even that was generally limited to athletes).

[2006alum]

Is there any good reason to think deciding whether to accept early enrollees or allow official visits before January was Shaw's alone to make? I can maybe believe he had the decider's pen on official visits, but my understanding was that the University as a whole has strongly opposed early enrollment and that this had to be negotiated as a limited and conditional exception for football recruits. For as long as I've been associated with Stanford, Stanford has never permitted early enrollment prior to summer session preceding one's frosh year (and again, even that was generally limited to athletes).