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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is to say the recruited athletes also don’t have strong academic stats? Athletes demonstrate hard work, perseverance, dedication, and leadership skills.

They also have higher graduation rates, donate more as alumni, and the stronger teams are good PR for the schools and build school spirit, some sports are revenue generating while others have higher overall GPAs.

Schools want diverse communities that include athletes, artists, and musicians. If you don’t like that model, many European colleges offer straight academics.[/quote] If the athletes had the academic stats, there would be no reason to recruit them, and schools could just have a walk-on team for each sport. There's a reason universities don't do this and instead recruit for NCAA sports.

Playing team esports also demonstrates hard work, perseverance, dedication, and leadership skills, but virtually no one recruits for that. So does FIRST robotics. No recruitment. So does polo. No recruitment. Clearly, none of these factors are the cause for why a very small set of extracurricular activities are so much more highly valued than others.

The only thing that seems to distinguish these activities from others is that they fall under NCAA. But what that has to do with why universities recruit for them is still a mystery to me.[/quote]

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