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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recruited athletes get a huge thumb on the scale because of the American money-generating sports culture. Not because it builds character.

It is what it is. Why do the parents of these students push back on this? Why pretend it’s so hard to get special treatment? You and your kid benefit from this. You win!

Why pretend?
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We do win.

Some of us have All-American, near-perfect GPAs,  1450 and higher SATs, AP/IB-loaded-up kids who are not better than yours; they just serve a function for Amherst and other schools.

Amherst and its competitors could easily fill a class with Indian and Chinese students that would run academic circles around all of us.  That is your competition and threat.  Not some kid you see as being less than yours because they played lacrosse at Deerfield.

You can't have everything both ways, can you?[/quote]

This.

My kid spent 20+ hours a week since 6th grade in their sport and won a national championship junior year with a similar profile.

Not going to feel bad if a high-academic D3 school feels that’s a bigger hook EC-wise than the club someone else’s kid started in high school or some internship. [/quote]

This is a thread about Athletics at Amherst but it still manages to bring in Indian and Chinese students and how they aren’t “all-American”. Sad. We respect the role athletics play at our alma maters. There are athletes of East Asian and South Asian ancestry at the NESCAC schools. Are they any less American than your kid? Signed NESCAC grad whose parents immigrated from India. [/quote]

Just FYI, All-American doesn't mean their kids are more american than your kids.  It means their kids have received athletic honors at the national level.

What they PPP is trying to sday to the PP is that their spots are not being lost to athletes because the athletes have always had the9ir preference.  They are losing their spots to indians and asians who are new on the scene.[/quote]

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