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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]athletes are ridiculed at Wesleyan by everyone except the athletes [/quote]

Many of them do stand out but I think you are going overboard. Many of them are self-aware about their differences and try to blend in. And [b]contrary to the rest of this thread[/b], the vast majority of them are academically on par with (or even academically stronger than) non-athletes. [/quote]
What are you talking about? They got in because they are athletes. Most rejected applicants were “academicallly on par.”[/quote]

A huge percentage of athletes at these schools are academically on par with their peers. [b]Perhaps being an athlete put them over the top [/b]when competing with roughly equivalent applicants. I think that is very different than the misperception that it is athletes who make up the bottom 25% or whatever of the class and that there are none who are 50% or higher.

I know a number of current and former student athletes who would likely would have gotten into their schools without being an athlete. But that doesn't fit people's narrative.[/quote]
There is the root of your ignorance: recruited athletes have a fist on the scale — much more than a finger. If your DC was not an athlete, like every other applicant to top schools, admission would be extremely unlikely to occur. Duh.[/quote]

But, they are an athlete that has a specific skill that took a lot of time to craft. Pretty dumb to just dismiss all the hours of work put into that vs some bs non-profit or random club "leadership"[/quote]
There are many like extracurriculars requiring equal time. They are not valued equally. They get a finger on the scale for admission. Athletes get a fist. The fist is the problem for athletes — not the finger. Athletics should be treated like any other activity, as it was a generation or two ago.

If you still don’t get it, make a fist with your hand. Now stick out one finger. Not. The. Same.[/quote]

name one. I'll be waiting a long long time. And Im not talking about joke sports like fencing, rowing, lacrosse.[/quote]
Please list all the joke sports. Sounds like we can agree to get rid of 1/2 the recruited athletes. As for what other kids may do with their time, you need to get out more. Maybe a parent group?[/quote]

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