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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone of these parents complaining about this would happily accept the preferred athletic treatment if their kid was offered it.  [/quote]

Maybe, but I'd at least acknowledge the preferential treatment, which some people seem unable to do here.  All I see is protests of sour grapes, they work hard, it's just as stressful for athletes just in other ways, it's just the same as another other EC.....

My kid is a double legacy at a top school which definitely gives special treatment to legacies.  Who knows if that will be in place by the time my kid gets to applying, but I freely acknowledge that it is unfair and there is no justification for it at all.  Despite the fact that I might benefit, for the system as a whole, I don't think it makes sense.

Can parents of student athletes do the same?[/quote]

Actually, unless you and your partner have given in the seven figures, don't count on that double-legacy. Legacy matters when there is signigicant benefit to the school, i.e. long-term financial contributions. Schools benefit by admitting students for any number of reasons beyond just grades: diversity is probably number 1, then those who contribute to the long-term financial health of the institution in a significant way, then athletes, who tend to be top performers after graduation and, in the case of the big sports, money makers for the school. You can begrudge these factors all you want, but it's students like these who keep many of these insitutions thriving. The one in 50,000 A student has a much less predictable long-term contribution to the school. [/quote]

Please provide a statistic to support that athletes are top performers after graduation, I went to a school with a top d1 lacrosse program, and that was definitely not the case.[/quote]

Most modern day presidents were student athletes.
Most CEO's were student athletes
NCAA athletes have a higher average GPA than non-athletes (its an NCAA requirement that each school track this and the GPA not go below the college average)[/quote]

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