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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]No. Actually that's not my question. I'm trying to set up a choice to see what people value more: success in the classroom or success on the playing field.

Well, that's really setting up a straw man, isn't it? [/quote]

Np here.

No, it's really not setting up a straw man.   There are plenty of private high school students who are either / or (and yes, a handful who are both, but we're setting them aside for this sub-topic).

I don't want to derail the thread by naming names or schools, but if I -- just one person -- personally know of several current high school athletes who are middling-to-C-minus students [i]even WITH the help of $600 a month tutoring [/i] .... this cannot be a rare situation.

Or possibly we are quibbling about the definition of ^^^ "a success in the classroom."  To me, than means ~ top 25% at a minimum.  It does not mean "barely getting mostly Cs and a few low Bs with the help of a heavy lifting tutor."  That is not a "success in the classroom" to me.  That's a struggling, middling student.   [/quote]

NP here. Yes, it is a straw man. The athletes getting Cs are NOT getting recruited by the most selective colleges, and that's really what we're talking about here. These C-average athletes may be getting recruited to play somewhere, but knowing this forum, most of you would probably shrug at the colleges or say, "never heard of it." On the other hand, I know of 4 athletic athletic recruits from the DMV area to DC's top ivy: two came from area public magnets and I know that 2 are NMSSFs (I just don't know about the SATs of the other two, but one of them is one of the two magnet kids I mentioned, so there's that). At the end of the day, it is the athletes who also excel academically who do best in exmissions, and then go off to be investment bankers or whatever.[/quote]

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