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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Among the Singer clients, most used the fake athlete approach and didn't fake their SATs.

How do we shut down that preference, which literally makes no sense in higher education? Let the best students compete in sports once admitted, but why do coaches have ANY role in the admissions process.  [/quote]

EXACTLY![/quote]

You can stop it when low scoring athletes stop outperforming the other students in life.[/quote]

By what measure?

Wealth and influence - Buffett, Gates, Jobs, Bezos, Oprah (not athletes)
Supreme Court justices - no athletes there either
Presidents - not in the last 50 years

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My kid didn’t get an athletic admit. But:
- Forget a handful of tech wizzes and presidents, we’re taking a pipeline of thousands to Wall Street over the years. Wall Street *loves* athletes for their hard-driving, team-playing traits. Plus, many athletic recruits are smart enough to go to law school or other professions, where again these personality traits will take them far.
- Alumns donate more when the teams are winning, and universities need the money. [/quote]

Wall Street hires those kids because they're connected, not because they bring anything special to the table. They're plugged into high-net worth social circles and daddy and grandpa have coin and connections.[/quote]

Wrong. My kid went to a top ivy and athletic recruits generally don’t come from old money or Goldman CEO families or whatever you’re implying. Not the football, basketball, swimming, or track recruits, for sure. Maybe a few of the equestrian and water polo types, but even those families are more likely to be UMC or maybe law firm equity partners, and Wall Street doesn’t care. If they have connections, it’s from their classmates. But then everybody else in the class brings the same college connections. What athletes bring that’s special is the drive being team players. This really is a thing.[/quote]

DH and his two brothers super smart and athletic sons of a school bus driver and SAHM.  All three athletic recruits (football and track) to Ivies or top 20 SLACs.  The two brothers are now very successful on Wall Street. (DH took a different path.)[/quote]

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