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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MIT is well-known for requiring athletes to meet the same academic standards as everyone else.[/quote]

MIT athletes are great students too but this comment is just wrong if you are solely talking about test scores and GPA (which I don't think is right to focus on too much anyway but is what I think PP meant).
MIT goes to great length to say they don't provide likely letters to athletes (like the Ivy League, Hopkins, and Chicago will) and that they don't have select athlete slots but being a recruited athlete is part of the review. You should definitely not confuse MIT with CalTech, which treats being a basketball player basically the same as a violinist and hasn't had a winning season in memory. 
Being a strong athlete is a great way to get into MIT (and almost any other really high academic D3 school other than CalTech) and if your kids are really recruited, they'll talk quite a bit more with the coach about approaching admissions too.
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Have to admire CalTech's commitment to not caring about sports. The men's basketball team lost more than 200 straight games over a decade or so. At last, a school that cares about educational achievement. Go Beavers!!![/quote]

This would be a big plus for me.[/quote]

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