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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My question arose after reading another thread about kids top 3 college choices. One parent listed her daughter's top 3 choices as Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton and stated that the daughter had the stats to enter the Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton lotteries. With admission rates below 5%, the concern arose about what opportunities a high stats kid sacrifices by foregoing ED options to target these three ultra selective schools. Many private National Universities with overall admission rates under 10% have RD admission rates much closer to 5% due to the number of spots taken by ED admits. Is it wise to sacrifice ED opportunities to an elite school for an unhooked high stats applicant for a lottery shot at Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton ?[/quote]

The "stats" are probably top athletes in their sport in the nation. 
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Not if they’re recruited to play football, basketball, baseball, soccer, track, etc. none of the top recruits in those sports go to HYP except maybe Stanford on rare occasions. They’re very good high school athletes but hardly the top in the nation.  [/quote]

Stanford has the most successful athletic department in the country (#1 in all-time NCAA titles and they've won at least 1 team title every year in recent memory). Essentially all of their athletes are top 1% or better. They pump out olympians and professional athletes in Palo Alto! [/quote]

Not in the revenue sports. Water polo, synvchronized swimming, men's volleyball, women's rowing, then yes.[/quote]
There are 29 former Stanford players currently on NFL rosters. 
https://www.ourlads.com/ncaa-football-depth-charts/active-nfl-players-by-college/stanford/91901
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When was their last national championship in college football?[/quote]

Stanford has been to 9 bowl games since 2010 including 3 Rose Bowls, a Fiesta Bowl, and an Orange Bowl. They are down this year but have certainly competed on the national level since the 2000s. [/quote]

That's nice. The answer is 1940.[/quote]

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