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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 4642773, member: 6620"] Whoa. Veteran posters on the football section ("Rock's House") always complain that's it is very difficult to get an undergraduate transfer into the Notre Dame football program, which is one reason why ND football relies on grad transfers, in part because Notre Dame does have many standalone master's programs. Is the refusal to allow junior or senior based on an academic "too late?" to get into/finish a Stanford major? So, if the Cardinal are down to rising sophomores only, I'm also guessing that Tara's tendency of filling a 15-person roster plays against that option. Why? Most sophs - particularly those going to a school like Stanford - would give it two years (Betts being a major exception. Tough call. Maybe there could be some loosening on standalone grad program deadlines (most in fall, some in April?) With all due respect, you'd hope some Ivy grads, confined by four years and out, could qualify for The Farm. Now that I think of it, most of ND's transfers come in three buckets (some of which overlap): [LIST] [*]Accept grad students, including a slew of Stanford undergraduates (Dodson, Sniezek, Brown, etc.), Lauren Ebo and Anna DeWolfe (ND does have a number of standalone grad programs); [*]Pursue transfers that they've courted before as high school students. Niele has done this with Maya Dodson and Jenna Brown, reasoning that she knows them and the ND admissions department knows them. Dara Mabrey also falls in this category, as well as this next category: [*]Specific rising juniors who do meet ND's academic standards. Mabrey was an All-ACC student athlete at Va. Tech (and at ND), so she fit, as did Jessica Shepard, still ND's most successful transfer. (Shepard grew up in an academic family - Dad was a HS principal -- so McGraw knew what she was recruiting). [/LIST] Good luck with this one. [/QUOTE]

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