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[quote=Anonymous]To all who are bashing the recruited athletes, here is a question for you.  If your kid was good enough at sports to be a recruited athlete, would you take advantage of that hook?  Or are you going to stand on your principles outlined here in this thread and say "no, you can't try to get recruited because it isn't fair to everyone else."
The reality is you would take advantage of the hook to get into a school you want to attend.
There are plenty of athletes that are fully academically qualified and did just that, leveraged a hook to increase their odds of acceptance at a school they wanted to attend.  And not in "obscure, racist sports", as some social justice keyboard warriors contend.
And don't move the goalposts about "the meat head athlete who took basic algebra instead of AP Calc."  That is not what we are talking about here.  LACs are more selective than that.  The meat head athlete you are referring to can hopefully get recruited to play their sport at a lower tier, state flagship, or something along those lines.  Every athlete that leverages the recruiting hook has to go through an academic pre-read.  Yes, it is an advantage to know early, to get specialized attention, and have support of a coach.  But that advantage is a result of years of hard work honing their skills to get to the point of being a person the school desires.  While simultaneously maintaining very high academic standards.  Does that take money?  Sure.  But there are plenty of scholarship opportunities at the youth and high school level to give similar means to others that are financially not as well off.

All of this angst is directed at a small minority of students.  Instead of complaining about a hook that you would take advantage of if you could, how about focusing on yourself and your kid so they can stand out in the admissions process.  Or, dust off your copy of Animal Farm and keep complaining.  Your choice.  But the athletic hook for admissions isn't going away any time soon.[/quote]

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