[BigJohn043]

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges/

This is the Niche ranking of colleges.  1.) MIT  2.) Stanford  3.) Harvard

There are over 1,000 reviews of Stanford by students and alums.  Stanford gets 4 out 5 stars for campus life which is the same as all the other top schools.  I'm aware it's fashionable among a handful of students to say Stanford hates fun.  I suspect they are in the absolute minority.   Each year Stanford sets records for number of student applications.  Something must be going ok.

WVB is the one sport I know about.  There have been two students in WVB program history who left Stanford before getting their degree. One was a student from Michigan twenty five years ago who got homesick freshman year.  She came back later in life to get a Masters from Stanford.  The other was Logan Tom who left to play on the Olympic team and then professionally.  She came back later in life to finish her degree.

All I hope is any fundamental changes to admissions be considered thoroughly and not be a knee-jerk reaction.  There are too many good things happening on the Farm to screw things up.  Admittedly this is the viewpoint of someone who enjoys football but is not a die-hard Stanford football fan.

One final random thought although it's not relevant today.  I recall some time ago there was a year when no transfer students were admitted.  Typically transfers were mainly admitted to fill out the diversity of a class depending on how many openings were available.

In the early 90s the Stanford experience was a lot more fun than the other elite schools.  Today I am not so sure that is the case.

I don't think anyone is proposing fundamentally altering the academic standards.  But there is no reason we can't admit highly qualified transfer students....

[BigJohn043]

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges/

This is the Niche ranking of colleges.  1.) MIT  2.) Stanford  3.) Harvard

There are over 1,000 reviews of Stanford by students and alums.  Stanford gets 4 out 5 stars for campus life which is the same as all the other top schools.  I'm aware it's fashionable among a handful of students to say Stanford hates fun.  I suspect they are in the absolute minority.   Each year Stanford sets records for number of student applications.  Something must be going ok.

WVB is the one sport I know about.  There have been two students in WVB program history who left Stanford before getting their degree. One was a student from Michigan twenty five years ago who got homesick freshman year.  She came back later in life to get a Masters from Stanford.  The other was Logan Tom who left to play on the Olympic team and then professionally.  She came back later in life to finish her degree.

All I hope is any fundamental changes to admissions be considered thoroughly and not be a knee-jerk reaction.  There are too many good things happening on the Farm to screw things up.  Admittedly this is the viewpoint of someone who enjoys football but is not a die-hard Stanford football fan.

One final random thought although it's not relevant today.  I recall some time ago there was a year when no transfer students were admitted.  Typically transfers were mainly admitted to fill out the diversity of a class depending on how many openings were available.

In the early 90s the Stanford experience was a lot more fun than the other elite schools.  Today I am not so sure that is the case.

I don't think anyone is proposing fundamentally altering the academic standards.  But there is no reason we can't admit highly qualified transfer students....