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LJ19, statistics from SOPC, SFAS, and the SFQC reflected an unusually high failure rate for younger students, so the minimum age was raised.
You don't see too many high schoolers going directly to the NFL, NBA, or MLB either. Given that they are money sports, there is probably a reason for that.
After being in SF for a few decades, you get a feeling about things like maturity. Reading posts here on PS.com, I can usually tell without checking when a poster is 20 years old or less.
You can enlist in the Army at age 17. Riddle me this. If you think you really have what it takes, why not cowboy up and enlist as an infantryman, either Airborne or Ranger, and prove that you have what it takes by soldiering for a couple of years before applying to try out for SF?
The end result is the same, isn't it?
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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