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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recruited athletes - even those in crew or lacrosse or whatever, and have no chance at all at making a living at their sport - tend to do very well with corporate recruiting, especially finance and consulting and Wall Street generally. And colleges like that.

It might be because these students know discipline, hard work, and teamwork. Similar to how the ROTC students tend to be highly valued. Those are good skills and reflect well on any individual. And our American social universe tends to really value athletes in particular.

A 100 or 200 points on an SAT test is a small thing compared to the value these student athletes bring to a collage.     [/quote]

This is entirely wrong.

The reason you value ROTC is not because these kids are more normal or more cool or more likely to become a wall street drone.

The reason you value ROTC is because it says something about character and civic mindedness and they hope some of this rubs off on the other students.

The kids in lacrosse and crew are there because they teach the poor kids with good academics how to act like rich kids.[/quote]

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