Reply to Lacrosse players who got recruited to play at the college level

Forum Index » Lacrosse

Reply to "Lacrosse players who got recruited to play at the college level - how did you do it?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^^

Anybody discouraging an athlete from going to a reach school is just annoyed that athletes are actually getting into reach school while other kids don't.  [/quote]

Um, no.  My D (not an athlete) was not accepted into her reach school.  Good thing, as we would have been forced to pay full sticker price.  She graduated from a top 50 LAC and excelled there.  I simply agree with Malcolm Gladwell in this regard.

[i]Acclaimed author Malcolm Gladwell has some advice for teenagers looking into college.

"If you want to get a science and math degree, don't go to Harvard," he says.

Harvard is filled with the smartest people in the world, and perversely that makes it a dispiriting place to go to school.

He explains his full rationale in the video below, which is a talk he delivered at Google's Zeitgeist conference.

At Harvard, the lower tier students are as smart as the top tier students at an average school. However, the lower tier students get just as discouraged at Harvard as the lower tier students at an average school. The result: They don't get their degrees in math or science.[/i][/quote]

To each his or her own.  I prefer my children to continue to challenge themselves by putting themselves in situations where they must focus and perform--whether on a team, at a school or in some other activity.  With all due respect to Malcolm, oftentimes shooting for the moon is an exhilarating and rewarding experience.  However, some may just wish to spend life in the comfort zone of their self-defined mediocrity, even with a math or science degree...  [/quote]

One doesn't have to go to a 'reach' school to be challenged.  Unfortunately, some kids feel they have to overachieve to makeup for Daddy's shortcomings.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics