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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most athletes who are successful in their chosen sport spends hours and hours of training and have the discipline & work ethics to be successful.

Having a specific skill - a sport, musical instrument, singing, dancing is MUCH more rare than a kid with high stats.

Scarcity creates demand thus colleges will fight over an athlete much more than a kid with 1600 SAT/4.0+ GPA.

I have one kid who is academic and another who is athletic but I guild them not to be defined by it.  You are more than your grades, school or sport.

Be a good person and kind to others![/quote]

Nobody is being unkind. They are just noting the significant imbalance toward recruited athletes. Who are going to be the doctors, scientists, micro-biologists, philosophers, data scientists, computer programmers of the future? It's the high stats kids. I would rather have my future surgeon be a smart kid who earned his/her way to college than someone recruited for athletics. [/quote]

Many athletes are very smart, many have ADD too. All have strong discipline and teamwork by the time they get recruited for college play. Aside from engineering, kids do get to choose their major from what we’ve seen. DS plays lacrosse. He studies Computer Science. There are STEM majors and lots of finance and accounting majors too. From what we’ve seen basketball and football tend to bring in students with lower GPAs and stats in part because they are money makers.

And as others noted, we’ve never met an ortho who wasn’t a college athlete.[/quote]

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