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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is nothing wrong with your kid putting hours and hours in to studying and homework, my kid just puts his time into sports.  Both can end up on the same school.  Colleges want both.[/quote]

We are aware.  Should higher education be focused on admitting more scholar scholars and less on admitting more scholar athletes?   Some say yes and some say no.[/quote]

1 vote for more scholar scholars.[/quote]

So you want your kid to attend a school of all nerds that spend their hours studying and doing research?  IMO college is about developing a person; academics is big part of that but not the entirety.  You wouldn’t attend a school that was 100% classes.  The college experience is more than studying - there are clubs, greek like, student government, etc.  [/quote]

I know students in other countries.  They go to sporting events if they choose.  They are admitted into higher academic programs because of academic achievement.[/quote]

You kid should go to a European school if it is so great.  But you won’t because US schools are vastly superior on all levels.[/quote]

If you are a high level athlete in Europe, you're not going to college at all. You're not even going to a mainstream high school.  Around 14-15 years old you'll be going to a sports academy, either run by the government or by a professional club, it's a boarding school where you have x number of hours per day of academic instruction and the rest of the time you're practicing.  Those kids, and their parents, aren't even worried about college at all. Unless you're N'Golo Kante who is the rare pro athlete who took college classes and received his Bac in accounting to hedge his bets in case his pro soccer career didn't take off.  That is rare. [/quote]

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