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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SO--my Junior has been told (as have all the recruits) that for their sport (no Basketball or Football)---they have to have the credentials to be admitted on their own in order to be recruited.  If they don't have the scores and grades, they can't fudge or push them through admissions.  The Ivies definitely hold the athlete to the same standard as regular adminissions--but it is less a lottery for them with this hook.  If there is an absolute superstar they might be able to get them in with slightly lower gpa/scores, but that is rare.[/quote]

So all the constant yammering about how lacrosse and fencing and other "white sports" are a way for academically weak white kids to sneak into elite schools is not actually true. You can only get in as an athletic recruit with inferior grades and test scores in the "less white" sports like basketball and football. Another myth busted![/quote]

Basketball and Football fill the arenas and stadiums and attract students. They also bring in a TON, sh*tload of $$ to a school.  That is why it is the way it is.[/quote]

This. University presidents don't have to explain away a poor soccer season to big donors, but they better have answer if football isn't preforming up to expectations [/quote]

Yep.  I am the pp you quoted and my sons are soccer players.  Yet, I understand and ok with the reason $$ isn't there for soccer scholarships.  We weren't running into a stadium with 'Enter Sandman" playing and having thousands of screaming students and alums at the game and watching at bars and TVs at home :lol: .[/quote]

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