[Goose]

The Vanderbilt situation is no mystery. They have about the same number of undergraduate students as Stanford does. However Vanderbilt has a higher turnover. Their acceptance rate for transfers is much higher than Stanford's.

2022: 16.6% acceptance rate, 471 students accepted out of 2,833 applicants.
2021: 17.6% acceptance rate, 430 students accepted out of 2,450 applicants.
2024: 330 students accepted.

https://vanderbilthustler.com/2024/05/22...2-and-2021 has a nice graph for 2013 through 2023. Note the graph is not accepted students but rather how many matriculated. The matriculation rate is in the 50 to 60% range it seems. Stanford normally accepts 20-40 transfers per year, or about 10% of what Vanderbilt accepts, more or less. Thus 22 transfers that play football at Vanderbilt would translate proportionally to 2.2 transfers that play football at Stanford. I think we ended up with four, so Stanford is more "generous" to athletics than Vanderbilt :-).

This of course doesn't solve Stanford's problem but highlights the difference in the two school's ability to use the transfers as a "normal, reliable" means to plug holes in our football team.

[Goose]

The Vanderbilt situation is no mystery. They have about the same number of undergraduate students as Stanford does. However Vanderbilt has a higher turnover. Their acceptance rate for transfers is much higher than Stanford's.

2022: 16.6% acceptance rate, 471 students accepted out of 2,833 applicants.
2021: 17.6% acceptance rate, 430 students accepted out of 2,450 applicants.
2024: 330 students accepted.

https://vanderbilthustler.com/2024/05/22...2-and-2021 has a nice graph for 2013 through 2023. Note the graph is not accepted students but rather how many matriculated. The matriculation rate is in the 50 to 60% range it seems. Stanford normally accepts 20-40 transfers per year, or about 10% of what Vanderbilt accepts, more or less. Thus 22 transfers that play football at Vanderbilt would translate proportionally to 2.2 transfers that play football at Stanford. I think we ended up with four, so Stanford is more "generous" to athletics than Vanderbilt :-).

This of course doesn't solve Stanford's problem but highlights the difference in the two school's ability to use the transfers as a "normal, reliable" means to plug holes in our football team.