re: Satellite camps, if any other coach tweets this, it's major headlines

Thanks for sharing article!

Always love a good Tableau report. < / nerd>

Not going to aggregate all the years together, but here is 2015 + other years: LINK

25th percentile ACT - 31, 75th percentile ACT - 35 - let's call the "avg" somewhere in between there... 33?

So the avg. student at Stanford has a 33, the athlete average is at best 26 (likely somewhat lower). Either way, it's about a 20-25% differential between the average student and the student athlete. I've never argued that Stanford doesn't have a higher caliber "student" athlete, simply that they have to do what every other program does in order to field a quality team... which is decrease your standards for admission. There is value beyond strict academic performance to the student athlete, and the fact that they're able to get them in and keep them eligible is indeed impressive. I just don't subscribe to the idea that the Stanford student athlete is equivalent to the valedictorian 4.4 GPA, 1600/2400/36 standardized test scores that they're made out to be often.

ETA:
Entirely unrelated to the OP, but since you shared the article, how the frick did this not get blown out of proportion:

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"We want a diverse student body," Krohn said. "If we were only taking students with the best scores then the entire freshmen class would be Chinese nationals."

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