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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

+1[/quote]

My experience as a D1 scholarship athlete at Duke is that take away football and the heavily recruited handful of male basketball players, and the gaps for athletes are fairly small. Anecdotally, I was in the top 25 percent of admitted students and did not need to go on a list - a fact that the freshman dean pounded home to me every two weeks. My teammates had great outcomes for grad schools and professions so the gaps in practice are small. My team today has a team wide gpa of 3.6 with plenty of STEM majors. I am proud of them - their GPA is higher than the student average. Football creates all sorts of challenges but it also pays for everything (even if the team is mediocre - the conference revenue is quite a haul). And even football players could be good students. I took an honors calc class with a 4th class using IBM punch cards. My punch card mutilator partner was a future NFL wide receiver and an African American from Notth Carolina. He was the best student in the class, if you discount the help a kind woman from Baltimore gave us in learning not to crease the cards. [/quote]

Did you literally attend college in the 60s…maybe 70s?  IBM punch cards?[/quote]

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