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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You haven’t figured out that our society values sports over education? [/quote]

But you can get into a good school with amazing academics and zero athletics, but if you have amazing athletics you still need academics that are far above average.

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It's higher EDUCATION...not higher athletics.  [/quote]

Then you don't understand EDUCATION.[/quote]

I don't give a rats ass if my lawyer or my investment advisor or my doctor can catch a ball.   I need their brains...period.[/quote]

College athlete is still a great proxy for work ethic. There's a reason that they also have an edge when applying to jobs. [/quote]

This. They can take feedback, work hard, be a teammate, and persevere through adversity. And they have great time management skills, because to get recruited to the best schools they need a strong academic transcript on top of the elite sports skill. [/quote]

I think it's the time management. Its much easier to have a perfect academic transcript if you have a couple of clubs that take an hour or two a week, but you generally get home before 5:00 and have the entire evening to study and work vs. an athlete who can easily have practice four days a week ranging from an hour to several hours that may be a long drive from home and weekends packed with games and have the expectation of doing strength training, cardio, and skills training outside of practice. [/quote]

I get that the athlete likes the sport and is good at it and has to manage their time to do it.  I have one on that track.

But the kid that wants to use their free time in the pursuit of knowledge and learn to manage time doing that  is the one I want for my employee, or advisor or surgeon, etc.    But you do you.[/quote]

One person's pursuit of knowledge is another's gaming. I have yet to see a kid was up at 4:00 am  to pursue knowledge every weekday morning before school. I'll take the kid used to priritizing and producing under tight time constraints [/quote]

If you want a worker bee that can get up and work and do it again everyday then hire the athlete I guess.

But if I need an engineer to make sure the plane won't crash..sorry...i am going with the robotics super nerd every time.[/quote]

Oh, wow.  Such unnecessary, obnoxious, toxic stereotypes.  Do you also choose your doctor based on race?

My kid is a Straight-A student enrolled in Project Lead the Way and interested in engineering.  He is also a phenomenal basketball player.  Not sure where he’ll end up, but I am pretty sure he will make an amazing engineer if he so chooses, despite his interest in sports.  [/quote]

+1 -- I think parents of non-athletes like to assume all recruited athletes are "dumb" or less qualified, but it's just not true. My DC is a competitive swimmer. She trains about 25 hours/week all year long, has a 3.9 GPA taking the most rigorous courses at a competitive private school, and scored 1500+ on the SAT. I think anyone would be lucky to have her making sure the plane won't crash, arguing before the Supreme Court, or performing surgery. Athletics and academics are not mutually exclusive....but it's the rare kid who excels at both. I'm not saying all athletes fall into this category, but the idea that "college athletes are dumb" is incredibly ignorant. [/quote]

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