12-28-2012, 04:35 PM
You're not going to find any explicit admissions criteria. Stanford admissions emphasizes the totality of the application, and it doesn't set any official cut-offs for test scores or high school GPAs. That said, there are informal cut-offs for athletes, which are well known to Stanford coaches as well as recruiting mavens. Personally I don't know what those are.
The best you're likely to do in terms of proving that Stanford sets the bar higher than other D-1 football schools is by compiling a list of kids who got rejected by Stanford but admitted everywhere else, or virtually everywhere else. I'm sure this list could be compiled based on recruiting articles. The opposite list -- players who got admitted to Stanford but rejected by another school -- could also be compiled, but it would be a very short list. Can anyone here recall any recruits who got into Stanford but got rejected from Northwestern or Vanderbilt of ND?
The best you're likely to do in terms of proving that Stanford sets the bar higher than other D-1 football schools is by compiling a list of kids who got rejected by Stanford but admitted everywhere else, or virtually everywhere else. I'm sure this list could be compiled based on recruiting articles. The opposite list -- players who got admitted to Stanford but rejected by another school -- could also be compiled, but it would be a very short list. Can anyone here recall any recruits who got into Stanford but got rejected from Northwestern or Vanderbilt of ND?