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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every school has a budget.  Money is allocated each year across many areas, including sports and other non-academic activities.  Families have often endowed these programs in perpetuity, never having participated themselves, whether it be the concert hall, a pool, a hockey rink, etc.  Why?  Schools need well-rounded students. Schools need lessons beyond the classroom.  Guess what?  They are right.
[/quote] None of these is a good justification for giving athletes a backdoor into the university. Athletes already get a holistic boost for being athletes, why isn't that enough for them?[/quote]

These schools want to field teams which are elite and well beyond competitive. Doing so requires participation in the quest for talent because athletic talent combined with academic talent is a rare commodity and leaving to chance the ability to form a competitive team isn’t an option for these schools.[/quote] that's right - it has nothing to do with athletics making the students better people, as if it did, there would be little reason to choose to recruit for some sports but not others, or indeed recruit if any sport but not other valuable extracurriculars like music or debate.

But then the question is, why such a huge emphasis on a maximally competitive team for certain sports but not others, or even for  other extracurricular activities like music or esports? You don't see schools giving likely letters or giving nearly as much weight to letters of support from the music director or the coaches of club teams or the esports coach.[/quote]

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