Cardinal Numbers

Stanford athletic teams that have won NCAA championships:

75

NCAA championship tennis teams coached by Dick Gould:

16

Players coached by Gould who attained a world No. 1 ranking:

3

Tennis balls used annually by the men’s tennis team:

5,000

Average life span of a men’s tennis player’s shoes, in weeks:

2

Percentage of Americans with dyslexia:

10

Percentage of Americans diagnosed with dyslexia:

1

National Institutes of Health spending on dyslexia research, 1978:

$0

National Institutes of Health spending on dyslexia research, 1998:

$25 million

Chances that a pre-med freshman will apply to medical school:

5 in 8

Percentage of graduates receiving BS degrees, 1958:

28.5

Percentage of graduates receiving BS degrees, 1998:

35.4

Science course units required for a BA degree, Class of 1962:

17

Science course units required for a BA degree, Class of 2002:

9

Sources: 1. Athletics Department; 2. National Dyslexia Research Foundation; 3. Undergraduate Advising Center; Undergraduate Admission Office; Registrar’s Office; Announcement of Courses; Stanford Bulletin.