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<p>Hey guys,</p>
<pre><code> Is it possible for a current sophomore in college to get recruited for athletics? What if that student were willing to relinquish his or her college courses and, say, start from scratch as a freshman at Stanford? Are there any age restrictions, etc?
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<p>thanks!</p>
<p>You might want to consult coaches/athletics directors @ Stanford in your particular sport.</p>
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<li><p>People transfer as recruited athletes all the time. Whether Stanford does that or not is a matter of its own policy, but there’s certainly no NCAA rule against it. What the NCAA rules DO require, however, is that if you move from one program where you have a scholarship to another, you have to sit out for a year (and lose a year of eligibility). I know that doesn’t apply to transfers from two-year jucos. I don’t know if it applies to someone who are transferring from a program where he or she doesn’t have a scholarship (e.g., D-III). The coaches will know that. (Also, it seems really unlikely that a D-III athlete would get recruited as a transfer. He would have to be one heck of a D-III athlete with a solid record of competition at the D-I level.)</p></li>
<li><p>The NCAA and Stanford both have policies on who gets to count as what. I think Stanford would consider someone a transfer if he or she has ever registered as a degree-candidate student at a college anywhere, although maybe the line doesn’t get crossed until one actually completes a course. It will not allow someone to “relinquish his or her college courses and start from scratch as a freshman” if those courses were completed as a degree candidate (i.e., not as a dually enrolled high school student). Furthermore, that’s a separate consideration from whether the student gets credit for those courses at Stanford. Conceivably, one could be a transfer student and still have freshman standing at Stanford, although that’s not very likely.</p></li>
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<p>Similarly, I believe the NCAA eligibility clock starts to tick when one first enrolls somewhere, and you can’t turn it back.</p>