Riggs looks to be a current and future star. And using her legs to also get a Stanford education shows that she makes more mature decision than most athletes. I wish her the best but she doesn't need our help.
Never say that someone would have been accepted to a school because they may have already committed their scholarships or may not have enough people graduating that year to free enough up. The facts are that Tuohy didn't get accepted to Stanford regardless if she tried or not. This board is full of kids and parents who complain that they are faster than the runners on a particular team but they receive no interest from the coach.
Tiger Woods, Oliver Luck and Katelyn Tuohy don't come around very often; Stanford would have freed up a spot for her. But you are right that as she never applied, it's a moot point.
The point I was making is that if you are a top 5 national runner with good, but not great academics you can be accepted by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford etc. like Dudek, Dadamio, and now Willis, Wilkinson and Riggs are doing. It's also best to start the process early, rather than wait til Sr spring.
As far as complainers go, it's usually not a top5 national recruit we are talking about, let alone the #1 recruit in a 10 year period.
I volunteer helping low income/and minority kids with college applications, and over the years, I have followed the stats and become friendly with some admission directors. It's entertaining to look at the data for schools like Williams and the ivies. Who gets in with 1100 Sat, 2.9 gpa and top 50% in class? Always a football player, and usually from a difficult upbringing.
"She would've gotten into Stanford no problem"---LOL, you know zero about education. With your logic, all 4.0 and Valedictorians should be accepted at Stanford. I highly doubt she's that smart. 4.0 doesn't tell the whole story, not even a long shot.
KT would not have been accepted to Stanford as a general applicant, but she would have made it as a scholarship athlete. In the general pool, you need 1550 SATs and a 4.0+, depending on how your school handles AP courses, and a unique "story". As an athlete, requirements drop as far as 1200 Sat, 3.0 gpa. For football they have gone even lower.
You can verify this by looking at Stanford's 'common data set'. All the low range admits are athletes.
This is exactly true- a friend of mine scored perfect on the SAT, went to a private HS and had a 4.2 GPA… didn’t get in to Stanford. Was not an athlete. people don’t understand just how hard it can be to get in if you don’t have something on your application to stand out or aren’t a minority or athlete.
Riggs and Tuohy ran xc head-to-head once. Manhattan Invite 2019. Tuohy finished first overall. Riggs finished third on her team, fifteenth overall. Senior versus freshman.
Lawson has a degree from Stanford in Human Biology - Genetic Factors in Disease Causation. She will run for a few years and then immediately get a 6 figure research position.
Dudek comes from a very smart family. Her father is a Michigan professor. She will likely not go pro but pursue higher education.
I predict that Dudek and Lawson will be earning $150k 10 years from now. Tuohy will be winding down a professional career where she earns $50k per year and will have a 10 year old business degree from an average college and no job prospects.
Chicago has this especially. Their SAT range is 1020-1600, and their ACT range is 20-36.
I think some consideration should be given to background (the person growing up in a high-crime public housing complex in Chicago should get some consideration for that) but it shouldn't be everything. If we're being real about who benefits from affirmative action though, it's typically upper-middle class and above Nigerians and other Africans.
That being said, a kid with a 1020 SAT will struggle at Chicago. I think it'd be better for him to go to a good but not great school. For him, making like 45,000 or $50,000 out of college would be life changing
A better head? Who are you looking at? If you are referring to intelligence, you way off base. Valby is a very smart woman., likely smarter than Tuohy.