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[quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, the one girl I know that got recruited to go to harvard had perfect grades and a perfect 1600 on her SAT. And the not-so-studious kids on my team who had mediocre grades, went to mediocre colleges too. [/quote]

Good for her.  She’s one in a million or more.  I know a UPenn recruit with SAT under 900 and a Georgetown recruit also under 900.  I also know a UPenn recruit with SAT of 1500 and she’s the highest score on the team.  [/b]Our school is getting pressure to move away from athletic recruits because they are slowing down the classes.[b]  [/quote]

I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $200.

Maybe some pointed headed alumni are saying this at the country club, but it’s not a movement. The fraction of recruited athletes who would truly “slow a class down” is minuscule.  Yes, they may get an admissions boost over a similarly or even somewhat better academic-credentialed applicant, but that isn’t the same thing as being a drag on the class.

First, colleges administer placement tests to make sure people are placed in the right math, for example. Or they use AP scores for some subjects.    So the gunner kid who took multivariate in HS will not be in freshman precalc with the “meathead” athletes.  Nor remedial composition.  Many, many elite colleges have such courses. [/quote]

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