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[QUOTE="kat0189, post: 2652495, member: 3811"]
While Duke may not be that far behind Stanford in terms of academic standards in general, when it comes to student-athletes (or at least WBB), Duke gives [I]a lot[/I] more slack for athletes than Stanford does.  Off hand, I can think of two Duke WBB players within the past few years whose first choice was Stanford, but ended up playing for Duke because they did not get through Stanford admissions.  I've seen several other WBB players who did not get admitted to Stanford go on to earn conference academic honors in college.

You also need to take advanced (AP, honors, etc.) courses in high school to be considered for Stanford admission.  In fact, Lisa Leslie wrote about this in her memoir.  She was a good student and there was significant mutual interest with Stanford, but she decided against their request during her recruitment to change her class schedule (add some advanced courses and take a zero period class to accommodate it) and thus they parted ways.
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