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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know anyone in law or engineering that played college sports. Also, if one has goals set for mba/law/medicine/phd at a top school, how can one achieve those grades for entrance when time is spent playing sports? Are these college sports players pursuing business?[/quote]The captain of my university's D1 hockey team graduated with a BS in chemistry and was admitted to a good med school.  The last I heard he had deferred his med school admission to play on the Olympic team.  The team earned a silver medal that winter.  I'm assuming that he started med school the next fall, but we lost touch.

That said, my brother wasted years of his life trying to make the Olympics in his sport.  He spent all of college exclusively focused on that goal.  He missed making an alternate for the team by one slot.  He did graduate from college after 5 years, but with a crap major and a crap GPA.  It's haunted home for years and now in his mid 30s he's still playing catch up.    The dream of an Olympic medal was a huge bust for his life, as I'm sure it is for many.[/quote]

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