[Mick]

In February I interviewed a candidate for admission to LSJU who was a graphene fanatic and thought that Stanford was the world leader in researching applications for the stuff.  I googled "graphene Stanford", and this seems to be true.  He got rejected, and will probably be going to Manchester U, where the stuff was discovered, but is focusing mostly on manufacturing technologies (to date only a very small amount of graphene has been created, and at an understandably prohibitively high cost).  Yet another 4-5* recruit lost due to our high admission standards.....

So given the size of the applicant pool and the size of the campus, why not admit additional students instead of losing them to other institutions?

[Mick]

In February I interviewed a candidate for admission to LSJU who was a graphene fanatic and thought that Stanford was the world leader in researching applications for the stuff.  I googled "graphene Stanford", and this seems to be true.  He got rejected, and will probably be going to Manchester U, where the stuff was discovered, but is focusing mostly on manufacturing technologies (to date only a very small amount of graphene has been created, and at an understandably prohibitively high cost).  Yet another 4-5* recruit lost due to our high admission standards.....

So given the size of the applicant pool and the size of the campus, why not admit additional students instead of losing them to other institutions?