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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the people who keep defending a world where HS and collegiate athletics take on outsized importance, try this thought experiment:

Imagine a world where colleges and HS did not field a basketball or hockey or football or LAX or swim team etc.  *Of course* they could use the fact that so-and-so was an exceptional athlete in evaluating them as a candidate, just as they could use if someone was a chess grandmaster, or concert violinist, or quiz bowl champion.  All of those activities, though valuable, are not the core of the mission of a HS or a university, which is to educate young minds.  Are those things helpful to an education? Sure, but they can (and should) all be accomplished without school sponsorship.  [/quote]

Universities recruit internationally for all sorts of things not just athletics including chess grandmasters and concert violinists. So it depends on what the school is looking for.  Stop blaming athletes for your kid not getting in.[/quote]

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