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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recruited athletes who think that they are held to the same academic standards are fooling themselves.

A non-athlete applying to Amherst with a 790 M/690 V will be scrutinized as “unbalanced.” A 4.3 weighted GPA will be devalued because the kid took geometry as a sophomore.

Recruited athletes just have to demonstrate that they are capable of graduating as Econ or psychology majors.[/quote]

The article just pointed out that [b]they are evaluated on the same rubric as everyone else[/b]. Why do you refuse to accept this?[/quote]

This has been our experience with D3 recruiting at NESCAC schools and the like . . . and the TO schools want test scores for pre-reads. Yes, there are a handful of kids from the B and C buckets who will get offers, but they are the exception. [/quote]

So, in a way being an athlete is harder since you can't be TO.

Not every athlete has low stats.  Coaches need higher stat kids on their roster to balance out lower stat kids.[/quote]

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