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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not American so I don’t understand this phenomenon. I can understand big state schools where having a big football team
might draw money or attention to school. Why would a SLAC care if someone fences or sails?Is it a way for well off but academically mediocre students to get in?  Or do these students have the same qualifications as the non-athletes?  Doesn’t it hurt the schools reputation as an academic-centered college?  Sorry lots of questions. [/quote]

They all meet the threshold standard of academics required to succeed at college. More rigorous the college is, the higher the threshold. That said, when they all meet the threshold, each has some interest areas where they excel at. For some it is Physics, some Mathematics, some Clarinet, Some X-Country Running, some Fencing.

Would you send your child to a college where the entire class was selected from rank 1 to 100 based on Mathematics scores alone? Or would you send your child to a college where there are kids who meet academic standards but have different areas they excel in?  [/quote]

most colleges say that half their applicants meet their "threshold" for things like sat and gpa. so the recruited athlete part is the one and only thing that puts them over the top[/quote]

The meet the athlete threshold which is different from the academic threshold. The athletic threshold students largely aren't in the same classes as the academic threshold students, just as they aren't in the same sports teams, for better for for worse. [/quote]

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