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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is so deep I may have missed something similar and apologize if so but representing a college athlete recruited Junior year for a top Ivy college who also had the grades and course difficulty and ACT test scores to maybe be considered without the sport commitment hook but that sport also represented all the time she could have spent on a Ivy level extra curricular like working in a lab in her area of interest. The sport ended up giving her a big leg up but she worked very hard to get that and she also has strong other interests that will carry through college and I think too many people on this thread think athletes "waltzing" into great schools are not also great students.
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It's not that some of the athletes are not very bright and hardworking students.  It's the fact that athletic prowess is over emphasized relative to other attributes.

I understand why this system has developed, with the cash cows of entertaining football and basketball and then title 9 and so on.   It is what it is but it makes no logical or practical sense to favor athletes for preferred access to our top academic institutions.  No other country does this because it makes no sense.
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Please everyone focus on athletes but look at Harvard with the most D1 sports(42 sports) and relatively small number of undergrad. Typically incoming class has 10% athletic admissions, 10% Director’s List(The “Directors List” is top donors and influential families), Z-list 3%(Students who would otherwise qualify for the Director’s List but did not have the minimum stats take a gap year before coming colloquially known as the “Z-list.”), Faculty Children (1%) and Legacies (15%). That’s close to 40% of the class that is not academic admissions.

Legacies and donors always get a pass but make up a larger % of the admissions. [/quote]

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