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This shows you the degradation of the Ivy League and Stanford admissions process. All university education is now is an extended high school with “learning” an accidental process.

The real scam is the books that “change” every year. From what I know calculus, algebra and other subjects rarely change the fundamentals.

Cajuste had a 28 on the Wonderlic.
That’s about the average for engineering majors.
Being a good enough athlete to get to the NFL plus a 28 Wonderlic is nothing for Stanford to be ashamed of admitting.

Calculus is constantly changing, but not the basics. I published a paper on a new type of derivative years ago. It's not in any calculus book yet. I don't think it will ever make it into a college textbook, because even though it has a practical application the subject is too esoteric. Only one of my research papers has been used in a textbook. The book is an introduction to real analysis.

Advanced math books constantly change, but we don't want to mess with the basics. My calculus book that I'm writing will be different. I have problems about beer, sex, love, farting, and a bunch of other silly stuff (like women). My goal is to make the students read the textbook just to see what is the next crazy problem. My book will be online, and free.