Stanford over Penn State 16-10. Where are all the Stanford haters now? Will be well within Top 10 with only loss in a close game to ND.
Lets hear it Stan the Cardinal. A drubbing at the hands of 14th ranked Stony Brook. 17-7. Stanford plays no one, and the few good teams they play beat them handily. Sorry, they are pretenders at this point.
Nice win for SB, but they will choke when it counts! And can we even compare a SB degree with Sanford? That's what really matters!
How dare you talk about the education and god forbid the majors taken. Parents on this board only care if their kid plays academics be dam
AHHHH ... but he didn't mention majors. That's the dirty little secret. Stanford kids for the most part don't take the difficult majors, you know the ones that the school is known for. In fact, many of them take the gut major. But in typical Stanford style, the parents can't handle telling their friends that their daughter is taking rocks for jocks etc, so they name the major Science, Technology and the World. Funny. You will find your share of girls lax players and football players in this major. In addition, Stanford would probably not like people to know about "The List". Quite the scandal at the "Farm". This was a couple years ago when it was revealed that the athletic department provided athletes with a list of courses that were easier and where professors would give athletes better grades. Of course many times it's not professors, but TAs that are teaching the courses, because Stanford professors couldn't give a crap about undergrads. They are all about their research. I can certainly put the links on here for you to find all this information, but it is probably easier for to Google it. Ironic that Google was founded by Stanford grads. They however did not use "The List" and are the kind of people Stan the Cardinal want to use to say what a great degree his daughter will have. Sorry Stan, she won't. She will be viewed as an athlete that got in to the school because she plays a sport well. As a recruiter, I will totally discount the paper diploma unless she takes a real major, which likely she won't. And by real at Stanford, I mean computer science, pre med or engineering, not history. If she wants a history major, there are much better schools for her. As an employer, I will value a degree from a top D3 program over her Science, Technology and the World degree. So Stan, not only is your lax team sub par, but the degree you think is so valuable, ain't worth what you think it is.
Now we should probably get back to the subject of this website, Lacrosse. And Stanford has proven to be not so good at that.
Wow , my kid does not go to Stanford but it is easy to see that you have way more problems than a hatred of Stanford. Get a life . Have been a member of the entrance committee for two medical schools in the past and will tell you any degree from Stanford gets you to the top half of the list , add in being a member of the girls lax team and you go to the top. You obviously need to take all the required classes but the major means very little.You are picking on one of the schools that actually give less academic wiggle room to its athletes compared to 90 percent of the D1 schools out there.Clearly you have an axe to grind with something at Stanford and most of us probably have a good idea why.
Come on Doc, top half of list at a medical school gets you nowhere. And u are talking about a student who "obviously need to take all the required classes". That is not the vast majority of lax players. Clearly, if a lax player took all the necessary classes for med school, they are not who I am talking about. That is the vast minority on the Stanford lax team. I am in a business where a Stanford diploma is very valuable (in fact as you state, it is very valuable in most arenas.) But certainly you of all people must know that there are far more qualified students being denied entrance into the Stanfords of the world in favor of an athlete. Good lax player wants to go to Stanford, or Harvard or Princeton ... would you care to opine on the ACT/SATs necessary and the GPA? I can tell you ... would you be shocked to know that a 27 or 28 on the ACT can get you in? How about 1200 on SATs. GPA 3.5/3.6, come on in. Of course it has less wiggle room than most D1 schools. not the point. The point is that Stan boasted first of such lax prowess for the school. Then, when confronted with the drubbing SB put on them, resorted to the "my school is better than yours retort", for which he deserved to get slammed. So I just gave him something to chew on. Great school, awesome opportunity for any young woman looking to get ahead in the world. But has many flaws as well.
