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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The anti-athlete posts always seem to boil down to “I’m obsessed with College X, and it upsets me that College X prefers students like your kid. I think they should value the same things I value and only seek out students like my kid.  It’s so unfair!  Let’s try to change College X so it is more like College Y, which quite properly is seeking kids like mine, but is of no interest to my kid.”

I do have some sympathy for OP’s take on the relative ease of the admissions process for recruited athletes. It was, in fact quite easy for us compared to the process for our kid with no hooks. Our athlete had a top choice school, and they wanted him, so one campus visit, one application, and got letter in August saying he was conditionally accepted and would be formally notified of his acceptance at the same time as RD students barring significant downward trend in grades or serious behavioral incident.  Unlike a PP who posted their kid’s Ivy experience, I don’t think the admissions committee cared in the slightest that he only had one real EC. Many of our friends with seniors told us that they hated us multiple times during application season, and they were only kind of joking. We understood. [/quote]

They also fail to acknowledge that at rock bottom, attending a school is buying an education from the school, not lending your talents to the school.  The application process obscures that (by design).  The school isn't assembling a team of the most promising biochemists, they are selecting promising biochemists to buy their degrees.  Athletes are mostly full freight, too, they just bring a skill the school is willing to barter an admissions slot for.  The down side is the recruitment might come from a school the athlete wasn't considering otherwise. [/quote]

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