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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 4642003, member: 9403"] Just a few quick things: Stanford has almost no standalone master's programs. Most grad programs are Ph.D. programs and most of the rest are professional degrees (e.g., law, business, public policy) that are [I]extremely[/I] competitive. Like top 2-3 in the country competitive. Like, Rhodes Scholars get rejected competitive. Most top undergrads can't get into these programs, let alone student-athletes losing 20+ hours a week to a sport. To make matters worse, the few standalone master's programs Stanford has have application deadlines in November. You really think you're going to land a transfer portal pickup that way in April? The only recent grad transfer we've landed, Jordan Hamilton, actually applied and was admitted [I]first[/I], and then approached the coaches about grad transferring. Last, on the undergraduate front, Stanford does not accept junior or senior year transfers, so at most, we could only obtain a rising sophomore from the portal. Even then, Stanford often admits only 20-30 transfer students a year out of over 1500 applications (I know, as I myself was a transfer to Stanford), so it's often even more competitive to gain admission as a transfer than as a freshman. [/QUOTE]