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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Waitaminit, I thought athletes had it easy all the time and it was a cakewalk for them!  At least that's what I thought from reading this forum...[/quote]

Yep. The truth is that to be a recruited student-athlete at the DIII level an applicant has double the work and stress as a normal applicant. But of course folks like to attack before fully understanding the DIII process.[/quote]

Please. Setting aside the student’s “athletic career,” in the worst case, the athlete applicant has submitted its application and gotten the college’s coaches to put in a good word for the application; in a best case the coach’s support definitively gets the applicant accepted. Vs the thousands of non-athlete applicants (the actors, the flute a players, etc) that get no extra support for their applications in any scenario. [/quote]

Your perception is very far from the reality.  My performing artist will submit his performance resume, and complete multiple auditions. If he does well, he'll get extra support for his application from the music department.   At many of the schools he's likely to look at, the selection is almost 100% based on the audition, and a top musician has a good shot at getting into a school (e.g. CMU, Northwestern) where they'd never have a chance academically if they didn't have the musical talent.  In contrast, athletes still have to pass multiple academic hurdles to be admitted.

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Why would it be a good idea to choose a school where a student might struggle academically even if they could get admitted?[/quote]

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