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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's almost like the purpose of college is to develop a skill for employment rather than play a sport.[/quote]

lol. It always amazes me about the amount of money and effort some parents put into travel sports.  If they put that amount of effort into supporting their academic pursuits, many of those kids would be top of their class [/quote]

Nah because the kids who have the pushy travel sports parents are never the smartest kids in the grade. Effort and pushing from the parents would never get them to top of the class. [/quote]

Both my boys are at an Ivy. 35 and 36 AcTs. Straight As, 5s on all APs. We didn’t push in school or sports, but they excelled in both. Top of class and highest club level. Never talked to a coach or teacher since they were tiny. [/quote]
Similar story here. The notion that you can’t be outstanding at sports and academics is so odd to me. No one seems to be surprised by the kids who are outstanding at both music and academics.  Those ECs take a similar amount of time at high levels.

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+2 Some posters want to stereotype "dumb jocks" because it makes them feel better.
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In fairness…the average SAT of professional athletes, to the extent they even had to take the SAT, is very low.

When they tracked this data for football players for schools like Stanford, it was around 1190 for Stanford and they were one of the highest in the country and produced few NFL players.

So, let’s at least admit that the top 5% of the top 1% of revenue sport athletes rarely are top students.

Perhaps if they weren’t such strong athletes in the multiverse they would have better stats, but there really isn’t much point for those athletes to care much more about minimum academic requirements…and a ton more about maximizing their NIL potential.

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