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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really hard to feel sorry for people when the athletic hook doesn’t work for them. [/quote]

It’s not hard if you’re not an ahole because you know how much work the kid put into it.[/quote]

Our kids who study hard, act in plays, win speech & debate competitions, tutor peers, and write for the paper also are kids who put a lot a lot of work in. they just don't feel as entitled to gain admission with lower academic standards!

[b]why should students whose EC is sports gain admission with lower academic standards to play sports that don't bring any benefit to the school's other students? who watches cross-country, volleyball, squash, etc.?[/b]

at least diversity helps everyone by not having people in bubbles.[/quote]

Because sports are institutional priorities at many schools, particularly old private schools. And, these schools have every right to their priorities. Nobody complains about athletes at Towson because people don't care about athletes and athletics except when they consume seats at a school they covet. Seems like simple envy and jealousy to me. [/quote]

It’s a hook, an unearned advantage that gets a student a special admissions process they otherwise wouldn’t have gotten.

It’s part of American athlete worship culture. 
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Athletics are an institutional priority for these schools and have been for 150 years. Why can't you get that through your head?[/quote]

That’s exactly what I said. It’s a hook. Something the institution values but is not earned by the student, like legacy or big donor family or faculty child. [/quote]

That is the dumbest take I've ever heard.  Do you have any idea how hard athletes work to earn their skill?  [/quote]

No doubt they work hard doing something they love and they develop skills. But that’s not why they get a thumb on the scale. That thumb is there not because your kid worked hard, it’s there because schools prioritize sports. That’s the unearned part. Your kid could work hard being a volunteer EMT throughout high school but that hard work isn’t considered a priority so no thumb. No other EC is as valuable as being a recruited athlete and it isn’t because the athletes are so much more fabulous than the non-athletes.
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Utterly dumb to argue sports recruits didn't "earn" their priority in admission. They earn it by working hard, and only 2% of high school athletes play D1 in college. Fundamentally different from being a legacy or donor child or faculty child, where you are either born into those or not.

Moron.[/quote]

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