[dabigv13]

I'll try to play the devil's advocate here, to a point. If he cared to, he could make the argument that the average USC freshman's GPA and SATs likely compare favorably to the average Stanford football admit's. Average GPA 3.70. The 25% SAT scores are 620, 650, 640 (reading, math, writing, respectively). Of course these numbers are all much much higher than they likely were when your friend attended USC. And the gap between the USC football players averages and their regular admits is probably much greater than Stanford's.

So maybe the Stanford football graduates he's met are not the intellectual giants he'd expect from Stanford. Then again, I don't see anybody the caliber of Cory Booker coming out of USC's football program.

[dabigv13]

I'll try to play the devil's advocate here, to a point. If he cared to, he could make the argument that the average USC freshman's GPA and SATs likely compare favorably to the average Stanford football admit's. Average GPA 3.70. The 25% SAT scores are 620, 650, 640 (reading, math, writing, respectively). Of course these numbers are all much much higher than they likely were when your friend attended USC. And the gap between the USC football players averages and their regular admits is probably much greater than Stanford's.

So maybe the Stanford football graduates he's met are not the intellectual giants he'd expect from Stanford. Then again, I don't see anybody the caliber of Cory Booker coming out of USC's football program.