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[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]

we do and you don't like it.  but you don't see the work they do, 4 am swim practice, soccer games in 30 degree weather, crew practice in freezing windy dark mornings. working through the mental aspects of it, the physical injuries,.  you all think this stuff happens by itself but it doesn't.  then add the academics, many of them have just as good or better academic credentials than your kids and that just eats away at you.

[b]A former soccer player at a W school got offered a full ride for both academics and athletics to Stanford, she took the academic one so another team member could use the athletics scholarship.  Talk about someone many of you on here thinks didn't deserve what she got.[/b]  [/quote]

Sorry, but this didn’t happen. Stanford gives no academic scholarships. They give generous financial aid for lower income families, and they provide athletic scholarships up to the NCAA max, but zero merit awards. So you either misunderstood what you heard or whoever told you this story was very confused or not being truthful. [/quote]

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