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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] And questioning the contribution of student athletes to the quality of our higher education is legitimate. You think athletics is important to higher education and others do not. Not giving so many sports to tennis players means more spots available to students with higher level academic interests.[/quote]

You set up a false dichotomy here.  The tennis player might be a student with high academic interests.

My DS was a recruited athlete - and NMF and valedictorian.  Three of the six recruits in his class are now in med school (and if you know anything about med school admissions, you recognize that’s a huge academic achievement).  Athletes can be academically ambitious as well.[/quote]

And those slots would have been taken by students who also could have gone to med school. Instead your kid and the other recruits had a sure fire admission when, no matter their stats, it would have been a crap shoot. That’s the hook. [/quote]

NP here - at least the athlete has accomplished something special on top of their great academic record.  This is not true of the legacy/VIPs that get this sort of leg up. (but both need to admit that the hook helped - it's crazy that these people argue their kid "had the stats anyway"....so do thousands of others and yours was given a leg up...just own it).[/quote]

In your opinion.  College athletes are no more special than many other extra curricular pursuits. [/quote]

Seems that colleges like Amherst and Williams don't agree with you.  They aren't filling 30% of their class with robotics team kids.[/quote]

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