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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended an Ivy (though not Harvard) and counted plenty of athletes among my friends.  I assure you that the overwhelming majority of them were phenomenal students in addition to being talented athletes.  Outside of luring some top football and basketball recruits, top colleges do not generally have to lower their admission standards much, if at all, to bring in athletes.[/quote]

I went to an Ivy and wasn’t a jock sniffer and I can say that they do lower admissions standards quite substantially for athletes in all sports. [/quote]

Jock sniffer, eh?  Thanks for proving that even an education cannot instill class in some people.[/quote]

Oh I’m sorry does “people who irrationally worship and make excuses for athletes” make you feel better? [/quote]

You're reading an awful lot into the previous post. What happened to you?  Were you bullied by a lacrosse player or something?[/quote]

Ah the classic response when presented with the truth - some personal attack.

Athletic recruits are admitted in spite of their academics. I feel no need to make parents of athletes feel better about the stories they tell themselves in a desperate attempt to believe that their kid didn’t get some advantage. People have no problem criticizing URMs for their supposed academic shortcomings but athletes (largely rich and white) should get a pass?[/quote]

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