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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's funny how parents of athletes are twisting themselves into pretzels justifying this completely arbitrary advantage that athletes are given in the college admission process.  Yes, your kid puts in long hours -- so do lot of other kids doing music, or theater, or science or dance at a high level.  They don't get special admissions processes.

Yeah yeah, sports promotes community and school spirit.  So do the performing arts.  A tiny percentage of sports bring in money, most do not, yet they still get to recruit.  You know that this glaring loophole in college admissions is the reason why the bribery scheme in the "Varsity Blues" case actually worked right?  Take a picture of yourself on a rowing machine, call the kid a crew recruit -- voila, admission!

There are other unfairnesses in college admissions of course (legacies), but just because there are others doesn't mean that you can't acknowledge that this one is -- objectively -- unfair.  [/quote]

How many people attend a sporting event? Thousands? Tens of thousands? At OSU and Michigan, hundreds of thousands? How many will watch a play or a concert? A few hundred? It's reality.[/quote]

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