Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Fine, it very well may be that my student athlete finished in the lower 1/3 at his Ivy. I am just happy that he used lacrosse to get in the door.
Look, I most likely would not have gotten into the Ivy League were I not an athlete. I did very well once admitted and was admitted to an excellent graduate program where my abilities with stick and ball were irrelevant. I believe in college athletics. I just want people to understand the landscape. Harvard and Yale and Princeton accept something like 7% of their applicants nowadays. There's no shame in using sports (which are about dedication as well as talent) as a ticket into great educational institutions. It's also no shame to be in the bottom third at an amazing school -- that's like being in the bottom third of the NBA -- you are still incredibly talented in the bigger picture. Any sort of "dumb jock" stereotype is misplaced (although the hockey players, sometimes . . .).