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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] What annoys me is the special treatment and perks the athletes get once in the school.

Athletes at my Ivy League school got free one-on-one tutoring and were allowed to skip classes and were given special notes and videos of the classes they missed. I had to work many hours at my exhausting work study job to make money. I would have liked a tutor to help make up for the time I also was too “busy” to study.[/quote]

This is so far off base you must be a troll.  I have three kids who were athletes at different Ivy schools.  They practiced/played 20 hours per week and traveled on weekends on top of being science/math majors, with zero tutoring available to them (other than what was available to non-athletes).  They also had to practice all summer in addition to their internships.  [b]They, and many of their teammates, definitely had high school academic profiles that were similar (often better) than the average student admitted to their schools.[/b]  Some of their teammates also had work-study jobs on top of their already-packed schedules.  So sorry -if you were too busy to study because you had 10-15 hours a week of class and a work-study job, you need better time management skills (which you would have learned growing up if you had played a club sport outside of your high school, like all the recruited athletes).[/quote]

I don't disagree with you, but I find it hard to believe that many Ivy League athletes have academic profiles "better" than the average Ivy League admit.  How do you quantify that?[/quote]

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